WATFORD CAPTAIN TROY Deeney has given a scathing review of his team’s performance following their loss at Southampton.
Watford were swept aside 2-0 by Southampton at St Mary’s on Wednesday as they crashed to a third consecutive defeat.
Deeney slammed Watford for their worst display of the season and demanded an improved effort against Swansea City on Monday.
“I am not going to try and gloss over the fact that we were crap,” the 27-year-old said. “There is no point hiding the facts.
“The only person who can come out of the game with any credit is Heurelho Gomes because he saved about five goals.
My job as captain is to stand up when we have played s**t and take the hit. This is the first time this season where we have had to look at ourselves.
“We got a harsh lesson in what the Premier League is all about. If you drop your level of performance by five per cent, then you get found out.”
Deeney said to have one bad performance in 21 games was not a terrible result, but warned his team-mates it could not become any more than a blip.
“That was one game in 21 games this season that we have not been any good,” Deeney added.
“And if that carries on for the rest of the season then we will be alright. Hopefully it is just a blip.
This is the only game this season we have been well beaten. I said there would be a time when we lose a couple of games and that is when we need to put some perspective on it.
“It is going to be a frustrating few days before the Swansea game. Training will be high and you can guarantee a few people are going to get kicked in training.”
Meanwhile, in more positive news for the club, Quique Flores and Odion Ighalo have been named the Premier League’s manager and player of the month for December.
The Hornets won three, drew one and lost one of the five league games they played in the final month of 2015, as they finished the year in ninth place.
Ighalo, meanwhile, beat Mesut Ozil, Marko Arnautovic, Riyad Mahrez, Romelu Lukaku and Dele Alli to the player award, having scored five times in December.
A ref and 2 umpires unable to spot Walsh spinning 4 times without a hop of a ball for the second goal. Shambolic officiating that’s basic rules they’re missing and it’s looking like it’s killed the tie.
Ah stop jack. Take off those blinkers.. Kerry were up by seven at the time… Game was gone from Roscommon at that stage… Roscommon are just out of their depth….
Blinkers? When when have Mayo and Ros got on? And I bet you thought the same in Killarney. There’s a stiff breeze at Roscommon’s back but the second goal standing out it beyond then whereas 4-5 down they had a chance.
They were up by 5 mate. 1-6 0-4. Should have been disallowed. Sure they want the dream final after all
Well eamon, at least the rossies can keep on dreaming… Just not even nearly good enough to mix it with the big boys…
Jaysus, Roscommon are pi$$ poor…
Com’n Kerry
I’d say most neutrals would want Roscommon to win today or in fact anyone apart from Kerry people
I’d rather a strong Kerry as they have a chance of running the Dubs close at the end of the year, Roscommon don’t have that chance
Hon the Kingdom
Rossie Keeper is a lucky man to escape a black card.
Nothing new with Kerry getting soft frees .
of course ye ever get soft frees
never even
Ref is a joke so far some really soft frees to kerry!!
Such as? Funny how the frees are soft when Kerry are getting them
Very soft frees on both sides.
Big game for both. Will go a long way in preparation for the championship
Walsh took 10 steps before he scored the 2nd goal. Good man ref.
Darren o Sullivan was dragged down before he scored his goal and there should have been a black card for the Roscommon keeper, or did you miss that?
Walsh took too many step, should have been a free out alright. Roscommon keeper should have seen black. He’s giving the same ‘soft’ frees to both teams for fairly minor pulling and dragging but he’s being consistent. Kerry getting more of them because they are the ones running at roscommon from inside the 40. Kerry by far the better team with or without Walsh’s goal
Ros’s first time out in Croker against a top 3 team and they went man to man. madness. McStay should know better he’s railed Mayo for exposing our full back line for years, easy be a hurler on the ditch however.
kerry are just reaffirming they are the second best team in the country.
Jaysus, kerry playing fierce dirty, foul, foul, foul, #
Nice boys get nice girls, nice boys don’t won’t all Ireland’s …. Think they’re up by 10pts…. Foul foul foul must be the way to go
Arrah if you took the goals outta it….
Roscommon are suffering from stage fright or just no good?but on this form kerry will hammer Dublin in the final!!.
I hope Donegal have more ambition up front today, lady game against Dublin was horrible. They had been very adventurous in the 3 games they won then reverted back to type. I know they can’t open up against Dublin as they might be in danger of taking a hammering. Still, I’d like to see them come out of their shell a bit. Good luck to all team involved.
How are they doing that paul???