Boro do have a solid defensive record but don't get too many. Hope its not like the Ipswich game - we need to be on the front foot and putting on pressure straight away. A point would suit them.
This has all the makings of another Ipswich game all over. Boro shutting us out and waiting for a chance to knick a goal. Agree with the others this game is more important for us to get three points from than Boro, if they get a point here and away to Norwich they would be very happy.
In the nine games being played today in the Championship, there is only one where nothing more than pride is at stake. What a division this is.
I used this streaming company last Friday with excellent results. http://firstrowfr.eu/watch/335747/1/watch-watford-fc-vs-middlesbrough.html
I have a bit of a dilemma here, I REALLY want to go sit on the beach with a few beers in the sun but this game is a bloody early start We've lost/drawn most of the games I've watched this season, but I also want to see this game... ARGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGH
Watfordfc : Gomes (GK); Cathcart, Angella, Hoban; Paredes, Tozser, Watson, Guedioura, Anya; Deeney (c), Ighalo.
Boro s: Dimi, Tiendalli, Amorebieta, Woodgate, Friend, Leadbitter, Clayton, Adomah, Reach, Tomlin, Bamford. Subs: Ripley, Gibson, Whitehead, Vossen, Kalas, Kike, Forshaw
Debuts for Tiendalli and Amorebieta. Looks as if Boro are planning to defend with the hopes of breakaway goals. Watford seem to have gone for some pace down the wings. We will see how this works out.
Anya, Paredes the weak link in there, Paredes for his defending and Anya for his poor choice of final ball after his pace gets him into good positions. Please show me wrong today guys. Any news on Vydra if he is carrying an injury? thought he would start for us at home with Deeney, Ighalo. Boro no suprises there as expected.
Vydra did come off at half time Friday with a muscle strain or bit of a knock. There were doubts if he would be fit for today.
Pre match comments from Boro fans forum. "Why is it logical to drop/rest Gibson when he has been part of the best defence this season, especially for someone who hasn't played for us before, and someone who has only played half a dozen games this season, whose disciplinary record is woeful? It would have been exactly the same team as Friday for me, especially the back-four. I'm not even remotely happy with that defence, but I'll still keep my fingers crossed."
Someones just told me that when we play in front of a bumper crowd at the Vic we usually end up loosing......
