Tale of dirty, sexy Watford

Javi Gracia’s Watford is a perfect contradiction. A team that plays a route-one 4-4-2 has no right to make football look as sexy as they, on occasion, do.

The bad news is that their opponents are one of the best teams the world’s oldest cup competition has ever seen. If Deeney were at a more high-profile club he would probably be the most hated player in the country, in the same way Luis Suárez and Diego Costa were during their time. To many Deeney’s a bully, a player willing to exact harm on any opponent standing in his way. Given that he was sentenced to 10 months in jail for kicking someone’s jaw in, the reputation is somewhat self-imposed.

“I used to pay to play football. Twelve years ago I was paying £10 a week to play,” an emotional Deeney said after Watford beat Wolves in a cracking semifinal. “Now I’m going to be in the FA Cup final. It’s life. There’s always going to be setbacks. Don’t believe in Instagram when people go: ‘Oh, it’s all so easy.’ Everyone’s got bills, everyone’s got heartache. Everyone’s got problems. If you can stay the course and be true to yourself then everything will be all right.

Out wide, the direct running of José Holebas and Daryl Janmaat is enough to stretch the play and make room for those route-one passes into Deeney.

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