Impressive Hornets start new season in four-goal style

The Valerien Ismael era is up and running in impressive fashion after Watford swept aside a poor Queens Park Rangers side 4-0 to open the new Championship season in superb fashion and bring a smile back to Vicarage Road.

The work ethic and attitude was positive, the players clearly knew what their jobs were both individually and collectively, while the invention and creativity about their attacking play was both enjoyable and refreshing to behold. The second-half performance didn’t reach the goal-scoring heights of the opening 52 minutes – longer periods of additional time will become the new norm – they were always comfortable and may feel they should have won by a bigger margin.

Sierralta, as he has done during pre-season, was selected as a midfield pivot in front of Ryan Porteous and Wesley Hoedt, while Ken Sema and Bayo made up the front three alongside Martins. Morris and Ngakia popping up in inverted full-back roles had been one of the features of the Hornets’ early play and it was to work a treat in the 20th minute when the Hornets doubled their lead in delightful fashion.

The pressure continued with the set-piece though, Hoedt seeing a shot parried back to him by Begovic before the Dutchman’s header was glanced narrowly wide by Sierralta. Rangers were a bedraggled mess and the last thing they would have wanted was to see was seven minutes of time being signalled under the league’s new stoppage time policy.

There was no immediate change in the flow of the game though, with the hosts back on the front foot from the opening whistle and Martins firing their first effort across goal and wide. Ismael made a triple change in the 66th minute, completing changing his midfield as Louza, Dele-Bashiru and Sierralta made way for debutants Jake Livermore and Giorgi Chakvetadze, while Ismael Kone also entered the fray.

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