The Argy Bargy Show! Watford 1 Newcastle 2
Posted on February 27th, 2010 | 79 Comments |
Despite evidently not playing the exotic football that the purists amongst us crave, judging by the crack on Radio Newcastle, the lads seemed to once again acquit themselves well, despite missing some big players and while playing on a farmer’s field. And although there was a scare at the end when we appeared to invite trouble onto ourselves and nearly paid the price, the conclusion seemed to be that this was another reasonably comfortable victory for The Mags.
Another good start saw Coloccini grab his second goal of the campaign after Nolan had flicked on a Guthrie corner, Andy Carroll steered the flick-on to the Argentine, who headed in to make it 1-0 after only four minutes. And the provider became finisher just after the break, when Carroll used his strength for the right reasons on the pitch this time, out-muscling Watford challengers to meet Guthrie’s corner and tower in a header for 2-0.
Things turned a little ugly when Watford reduced the deficit right at the death through substitute Hoskins. A number of Newcastle players began arguing amongst themselves, Smith and Williamson particularly disagreeing over something and the former apparently raising his hands to the centre-half. With this season’s ‘camaraderie’ quite clearly nowhere to be seen, Watford seemed to sense they could take advantage. But the black and whites saw out the victory and it was all smiles and backslaps between the red corners and the blue corners after the whistle.
With a 3-0 defeat for Forest at Leicester, we extend the lead at the top by a point, as West Brom move into second spot following their 3-1 home win against Derby. That leaves us six points clear of them and with a game in hand over Forest, should we win that we would be eleven points clear of third. With March potentially being a pivotal month for the promotion chasers, we head into it with a healthy looking position in the table. As long as we don’t start knocking each other out in the meantime…
Us – Steve Harper, Danny Simpson, Fabricio Coloccini, Mike Williamson, Patrick van Aanholt, Danny Guthrie, Alan Smith, Kevin Nolan, Jonas Gutierrez, Leon Best, Andy Carroll
Subs – Tim Krul, Tamas Kadar, Fitz Hall, Ryan Taylor, Nile Ranger, Fabrice Pancrate, Ryan Donaldson
Watford – Scott Loach, Adrian Mariappa, Jay DeMerit (c), Martin Taylor, Lloyd Doyley, Don Cowie, Henri Lansbury, John Eustace, Jon Harley, Heidar Helguson, Danny Graham
Subs – Stephen McGinn, Ross Jenkins, Richard Lee, Will Hoskins, Liam Henderson, Michael Bryan, Lee Hodson
Full report to come from man in the ground, Mr Blog owner himself, workyticket.
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