Emmanuel Dennis ended his goal drought but it was not enough as relegation threatened Watford lost 2-1 to Brentford at Vicarage Road in Saturday’s Premier League game.
Going into Saturday’s game, Dennis last goal was on February 19 when his strike earned Watford a 1-0 win at Aston Villa.
His Nigerian teammate Oghenekaro Etebo was benched for the game which saw Watford suffer their third straight defeat.
The goal was Dennis’ 10th for Watford in his debut season in the English topflight.
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The former Club Brugge forward scored in the 55th minute to draw Watford level.
But a 95th minute penalty converted by Pontus Jansson sealed the win for Brentford.
The defeat leaves Watford in 19th place on 22 points, six points from safety, while Brentford are now in 11th on 39 points in the league table.
At Old Trafford a Cristiano Ronaldo hat-trick sealed a hard fought 3-2 for Manchester United against Norwich City.
It was Ronaldo’s 60th career hat trick, the most of any active player and five more than Lionel Messi.
United are now in fifth place on 54 points and are only three points away from fourth spot.
Ronaldo opened scoring on seven minutes as he slotted home Anthony Elanga’s cross, before doubling United’s lead with a header off a corner on 32 minutes.
Kieran Dowell pulled a goal back for Norwich one minute into added time as he headed in Teemu Pukki unmarked.
In the 52nd minute Pukki then made it 2-2 after he ran on to a pass before slotting past David De Gea.
But in the 76th minute Ronaldo completed his hat-trick with a brilliant free kick.
In other results Arsenal’s poor run continues after they lost 1-0 at Southampton while Tottenham Hotspur lost 1-0 at home to Brighton and Hove Albion.
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Average Playtime records of eagles team against Ghana in their various clubs in February/march2022 before world cup qualifier .
Uzoho 45mins
Aina. 20mins
Shehu. 39mims
Etebo. 0 mins
Zaidu. 69mins
Ekong. 15mins
Bassey 58mins
Balogun 49mins
Ihaenacho 38.6mins
Oshimen. 79.6mins
Sadiq. 78.6mins
Musa. 45.8mins
Moses 64.8mins
Igallo. 81.3mins
Lookman. 46.7mins
As compiled by the Portuguese coach pacessiro in an online news . And he said he wil never invite a player that is not playing up to 60 mins in his club .main reason dey lost to a make shift Ghana team he said.
Chi so some players are out already.
No wonder they are tired in the 2 ND half.
@Olu… man! Is like this Poseiro man is a grand commando o… Lol. Most of the overhype players will be out… Imagine Olayinka and Awoniyi snubbed! We just dont deserve to be at the world cup…
Hmmm….
The man should better adjust it to 50 mins or else, Na 10 to 15 players him go dey invite to camp
My take on this is that he’s telling us how technically incompetent he is. Do they train in their clubs? If yes, they are fit enough to play. A player who is not used regularly always trains vigorously to see if he will be started, or if the preferred player is injured the stand by player sometimes siezes that opportunity to make that position his own.
How many National team players around the world are regular starters in their club? I’m talking about the whole players in any given National team. How regular is Jesus playing this season in Man. City? But he leads the Brazilian attack. We failed because the bunch of coaches that lead us are technically below average. They learned nothing from the loss to Tunisia, nothing from the first leg in Kumasi. They showed this by the result in Abuja. So Pacessiro, by your statement you are showing us your level, which might not be what we want.
Kill Bill, training is not the same as playing because you are match rusty from not playing.
You get.
Statistics don’t win you matches. During Westerhof years, the team must play a friendly game with a local club the Thursday before the Saturday game. Some Pros are decamped before match day. That was the secret of the 94 team. The competition to make match day squad was really tough. Not now that ….
But for 6 years we played a style of football where we hardly kept possession in the opponents half for prolong periods. Rather backward- sideways passes held sway.