corner but his header on the half hour was saved easily by Gunn as Watford began to ratchet up the pressure. Norwich stayed back in numbers, now themselves incapable of completing a sequence of passes.
Dennis, having been booked for a foul on Pierre Lees-Melou, was perhaps lucky to escape a second booking for simulation when hitting the deck with the same player in his vicinity. The first half closed with João Pedro and, created an early second-half chance that João Pedro wafted over the bar as the ineptitude continued at both ends, with Watford soon paying for theirs.
Ranieri soon made his first change, the ineffective Cleverley coming off for Cucho Hernández. That came just a few moments before the floodlight failure saw, the referee, halt proceedings in the 61st minute. “We’re Norwich City, we play in the dark,” mocked the away fans though it might be said both teams had played much of the game as if blindfolded.
After players informed Dean that the lights, which flickered on and then off to ironic cheers, were not sufficient to play under, there was a touchline pow-wow with both managers that ended with the game restarting after 10 minutes and still in the half-light. Within two minutes of the restart, Norwich and Sargent had their second, Rashica escaping down the left, and his cross headed in by a player clearly now flushed with confidence. The home fans, staring down the barrel of Ranieri’s 10th league defeat in 13 matches, began to show their disquiet and Dennis was shown a second yellow card for a high challenge on Max Aarons.
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