REPORT | There were pluses among areas that still need improving as the Hornets were beaten in a friendly at Crystal Palace watfordfc
There were encouraging signs to take into the final two weeks of pre-season as Watford suffered a 2-1 defeat in a behind-closed-doors friendly at Crystal Palace this afternoon.
There was a structure and understanding about how they went about their work, their pressing caused Palace issues at times and there was a willingness to try and play through the thirds. The returning Matheus Martins was the only signing to start. Rhys Healey and Jake Livermore come on in the second half, but Tom Ince was not part of the matchday 22 and neither were Ismael Kone and Christian Kabasele.
After the initial set piece had been dealt with, the Hornets went even closer from the second corner – Louza’s inswinger from the right was met by Vakoun Bayo, who had escaped his marker, but his header was impressively kept out by Johnstone, with the keeper able to get to his feet in time to again do well to save the follow-up header from Ryan Porteous.
Palace, who had seemingly been content to let their opponents have the ball in front of them, had a better spell around the half-hour mark and created another opening when Jordan Ayew slipped in Mateta, but he again opted for a pull back instead of taking the chance on himself. Ismael changed more than half his team on the hour but in the 68th minute the visitors levelled when Ryan Andrews, who impressed after coming on, drove forward on the right and found Martins in field and his backheel was impressively fired beyond replacement keeper Remi Matthews by Kayembe from 18 yards out.
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