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Game #5614

Aston Villa

Saturday, 19 February 2022

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Lost

12th (-)

Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟥

Premier League

Watford

Villa Park

Attendance: 42,000

🟥 19 February 2022, Villa 0-1 Watford, Villa Park

Aston Villa

0-1

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Watford

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Assist(s) | None |

🟥 19 February 2022, Villa 0-1 Watford, Villa Park

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MATCH TIMELINE

Saturday, 19 February 2022

💥 | 5’ VAR denies Villa a penalty
⏱️ | HT Aston Villa 0-0 Watford
🟨 | 57’ Booking, Matty Cash, Bad foul
🔁 | 58’ Sub off, Douglas Luiz, Sub on, Ollie Watkins
🔁 | 65’ Sub off, Matty Cash, Sub on, Ashley Young
🔁 | 71’ Sub off, Emiliano Buendía, Sub on, Leon Bailey
🥅 | 78’ Goal, 0-1, (Watford), Emmanuel Dennis
⏱️ | FT Aston Villa 0-1 Watford

Match Statistics

Possession F | 60%
Possession A | 40%
Shots F | 20
Shots A | 8
Shots on Target F | 1
Shots on Target A | 4
Corners F | 10
Corners A | 5
Fouls F | 12
Fouls A | 7

🟥 19 February 2022, Villa 0-1 Watford, Villa Park

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ON THIS DAY

Saturday, 19 February 2022

  • A worryingly flat Villa fail to turn up again and lose successive games to sides at the foot of the table in a performance very similar to the final days of former boss Dean Smith.

  • Steven Gerrard’s loss rate sits at 50.00% after 14 games in charge of Villa with a record of W5 D2 L7 at a win rate of 35.71% delivering 1.21 points per game so far in his Villa management career.

  • Dean Smith had been relieved of his duties in November 2021 with a record of 1.41 points per game, a win rate of 40.29% and a loss rate of 39.57%.

  • John McGinn makes his 130th start in a Villa shirt (133 Appearances) to make it W50 D30 L53, 16 Goals, 17 Assists and 36 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

  • Emiliano Buendía makes his 20th start in a Villa shirt (24 Appearances) to make it W7 D4 L13, 2 Goals, 3 Assists and 1 Booking so far in his Villa career.

  • Danny Ings makes his 15th start in a Villa shirt (19 Appearances) since joining in August 2021 to make it W6 D2 L11, 4 Goals, 2 Assists and 2 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

  • This is the first 3.00pm Saturday fixture at Villa Park since Steven Gerrard’s first game in charge, on Saturday, 20 November 2021. 

  • The opposition, Watford, didn’t feature a single homegrown player in their squad of 20 and only three players from the home nations of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

🟥 19 February 2022, Villa 0-1 Watford, Villa Park

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

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Aston Villa

European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96

Watford

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European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌

Aston Villa

Watford

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Watford

Previous 5 vs. Watford: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩 🟥

Watford

PREVIOUS MATCH

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Watford

SUBSEQUENT MATCH

None

🟥 19 February 2022, Villa 0-1 Watford, Villa Park

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2021-22 |
Matchday | #27 |
League Match | #24 |
Manager Game | #14 |
Saturday, 19 February 2022
Attendance | 42,000 |

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🟥 19 February 2022, Villa 0-1 Watford, Villa Park

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Steven Gerrard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Merseyside, 2021-2022
Referee: Robert Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Merseyside, 2016-
Kick off: 3.00pm
Half Time Score: 🟨 0-0
Full Time Result: 🟥 Lost
Full Time Score: 🟥 0-1
Last 5: 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟥

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Matches
Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Steven Gerrard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2021-2022

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 14 | 🟩 | 5 🟨 | 2 🟥 7 | 1.21

Villa Career Form:

Bottom 8

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Steven Gerrard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2021-2022

🟥 19 February 2022, Villa 0-1 Watford, Villa Park

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Robert Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Merseyside, 2016-
Matches Officiated: 7
🟩 : 2
🟨 : 0
🟥 : 5
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟥 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 3 Mar 21, Villa 0-1 Sheffield United (a)
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Simon Long, Scott Ledger.
Fourth official: Martin Atkinson.
VAR: Paul Tierney.
Assistant VAR: Lee Betts.

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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🟨 Matty Cash, Bad foul

🟨 Hassane Kamara
🟨 Ismaïla Sarr

🟥 19 February 2022, Villa 0-1 Watford, Villa Park

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Steven Gerrard names the same squad that disappointed against Newcastle with the only change being Danny Ings coming into the starting line up in place of the benched Ollie Watkins.

Starting XI Average Age: 26.87
Oldest Player: F Danny Ings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 29.95 |
Youngest Player: M Jacob Ramsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 20.75 |

Referee
Manager

🟥 19 February 2022, Villa 0-1 Watford, Villa Park

MANAGER

Steven Gerrard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2021-2022

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Aston Villa

GK Emiliano Martínez | 🇦🇷 |
LB Lucas Digne | 🇫🇷 |
CB Calum Chambers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Tyrone Mings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Matty Cash | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇵🇱 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
M Douglas Luiz | 🇧🇷 | 🔁 |
M John McGinn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Philippe Coutinho | 🇧🇷 |
M Jacob Ramsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Emiliano Buendía | 🇦🇷 | 🔁 |
F Danny Ings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

MANAGER

Roy Hodgson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Watford

GK Ben Foster | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Kiko Femenía | 🇪🇸 |
CB Craig Cathcart | 🇬🇧 |
CB Samir | 🇧🇷 | 🔁 |
LB Hassane Kamara | 🇨🇮 | 🟨 |
M Moussa Sissoko | 🇫🇷 |
M Imrân Louza | 🇲🇦 |
M Tom Cleverley (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Ismaïla Sarr | 🇸🇳 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
F Joshua King | 🇳🇴 |
CF Emmanuel Dennis | 🇳🇬 | ⚽ | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟥 19 February 2022, Villa 0-1 Watford, Villa Park

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | CF Ollie Watkins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Douglas Luiz | 🇧🇷 | 58’ |
🔁 | RB Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for RB Matty Cash | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇵🇱 | 65’ |
🔁 | W Leon Bailey | 🇯🇲 | for W Emiliano Buendía | 🇦🇷 | 71’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Ken Sema | 🇸🇪 | for CF Emmanuel Dennis | 🇳🇬 | 86’ |
🔁 | CB Christian Kabasele | 🇧🇪 | for W Ismaïla Sarr | 🇸🇳 | 89’ |
🔁 | CF Cucho Hernández | 🇨🇴 | for CB Samir | 🇧🇷 | 89’ |

Substitutes

🟥 19 February 2022, Villa 0-1 Watford, Villa Park

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Robin Olsen | 🇸🇪 |
FB Ben Chrisene | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Kortney Hause | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Morgan Sanson | 🇫🇷 |
M Carney Chukwuemeka | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Tim Iroegbunam | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Daniel Bachmann | 🇦🇹 |
LB Adam Masina | 🇲🇦 |
RB Jeremy Ngakia | 🇨🇩 |
CB William Troost-Ekong | 🇳🇬 |
M Edo Kayembe | 🇨🇩 |
W Samuel Kalu | 🇳🇬 |

Player Positions:

GK : Goalkeeper
CB, D, B : Centre Back, Defender, Back
FB, LB, RB, WH : Full Back, Left Back, Right Back, Wing Back, Wing Half


M, CH, LH, RH : Midfielder, Centre Half, Left Half, Right Half
W, OL, OR : Winger, Outside Left, Outside Right
F, IF, IL, IR : Forward, Inside Forward, Inside Left, Inside Right, Second Striker, False 9
CF : Centre Forward

Match Symbols:

⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution

🟨 | Booking

🟥 | Sending off

🆘 | Poor refereeing performance
🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game

Squad Bios

🟥 19 February 2022, Villa 0-1 Watford, Villa Park

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI Cost: £155.86m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 5/11
Homegrown: 1/11
Subs Cost: £59.40m
Team Cost: £215.26m
Squad Cost: £232.54m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/20
Homegrown: 4/20

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI Cost: £61.74m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 3/11
Homegrown: ⭕/11
Subs Cost: £8.29m
Team Cost: £70.03m
Squad Cost: £81.46m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 3/20
Homegrown: ⭕/20

🟥 19 February 2022, Villa 0-1 Watford, Villa Park

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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GK Emiliano Martínez | 🇦🇷 | £19.58m |
GK Robin Olsen | 🇸🇪 | £3.15m |

LB Lucas Digne | 🇫🇷 | £27.00m |
RB Matty Cash | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇵🇱 | £14.18m |
FB Ben Chrisene | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth |
RB Ashley Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Free |

CB Tyrone Mings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | £20.60m |
CB Kortney Hause | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | £2.70m |
CB Calum Chambers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Free |

M Douglas Luiz | 🇧🇷 | £15.12m |
M Morgan Sanson | 🇫🇷 | £14.22m |
M John McGinn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | £2.79m |
M Jacob Ramsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth |
M Carney Chukwuemeka | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth |
M Tim Iroegbunam | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Free |
M Philippe Coutinho | 🇧🇷 | Loan |

W Emiliano Buendía | 🇦🇷 | £34.56m |
W Leon Bailey | 🇯🇲 | £28.80m |

F Danny Ings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | £31.59m |
CF Ollie Watkins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | £27.72m |

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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GK Ben Foster | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | £2.52m |
GK Daniel Bachmann | 🇦🇹 | Free |

LB Adam Masina | 🇲🇦 | £4.50m |
LB Hassane Kamara | 🇨🇮 | £3.60m |
RB Kiko Femenía | 🇪🇸 | Free |
RB Jeremy Ngakia | 🇨🇩 | Free |

CB Christian Kabasele | 🇧🇪 | £6.26m |
CB Samir | 🇧🇷 | £4.50m |
CB Craig Cathcart | 🇬🇧 | Free |
CB William Troost-Ekong | 🇳🇬 | Free |

M Imrân Louza | 🇲🇦 | £9.00m |
M Tom Cleverley (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | £8.37m |
M Edo Kayembe | 🇨🇩 | £4.23m |
M Moussa Sissoko | 🇫🇷 | £3.15m |
M Ken Sema | 🇸🇪 | £2.03m |

W Ismaïla Sarr | 🇸🇳 | £27.00m |
W Samuel Kalu | 🇳🇬 | £2.70m |

CF Emmanuel Dennis | 🇳🇬 | £3.60m |
CF Cucho Hernández | 🇨🇴 | Free |
F Joshua King | 🇳🇴 | Free |

🟥 19 February 2022, Villa 0-1 Watford, Villa Park

UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 2 |
M Marvelous Nakamba | 🇿🇼 | Knee, 14 Dec 2021 [9]
W Bertrand Traoré | 🇧🇫 | Hamstring, 9 Feb 2022 [3]

Suspension | 1 |
CB Ezri Konsa | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Out On Loan | 13 |
M Conor Hourihane | 🇮🇪 | Sheffield United
RB Frédéric Guilbert | 🇫🇷 | Strasbourg
CF Keinan Davis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Forest
CF Wesley | 🇧🇷 | Internacional
W Anwar El Ghazi | 🇳🇱 | Everton
M Aaron Ramsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Cheltenham
CF Caleb Chukwuemeka | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Livingston
W Jaden Philogene-Bidace | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Stoke
CF Cameron Archer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Preston
LB Matt Targett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Newcastle
GK Filip Marschall | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Gateshead
GK Jed Steer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Luton
W Trézéguet | 🇪🇬 | Basaksehir

UNAVAILABLE

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Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟥 19 February 2022, Villa 0-1 Watford, Villa Park

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MATCH QUOTES

“It’s not too much different from my reaction last week. “I’m really frustrated and disappointed with the result and the outcome of the game. “We’ve lacked quality in the final third, that’s for sure, and I’ve had a really honest conversation with the players. “We need to wake up and wake up fast because our recent form and our recent performances are way short in order to move up this table. “I made one change. I thought Danny looked lively but he tired a little as the game went on. “He’ll probably point towards needing more game time which I understand. “I tried to make a few more changes and to be aggressive as the game went on because we were looking for a breakthrough. “Listen, we’ve got in a lot of good areas today. We had a lot of the ball. The game panned out exactly as we thought. “We knew it would be on us to force the breakthrough but we lacked quality in the final third and we had one shot on target out of 19 which isn’t enough. “That, for me, tells me it’s a quality issue. “That’s gotta come from within the dressing room. “In previous games we’ve had that creation, invention and have looked exciting in a lot of games but, certainly, in the last two, I need to demand more of my players in the final third because we’re getting into crossing positions. “We’ve got really talented players and it’s got to come from within. Players have to stand up and be counted. “I’ll take the heat and the pressure is on me, of course it is, but when it’s a quality issue in the final third, it’s gotta come from within the dressing room as well. “Young for Cash was a tactical change. “He was on a yellow card so it’s a combination of him being on a yellow and tactical. “We know we were getting down the right-hand side and we were looking to throw something different at it. “But, because Watford were looking quite dangerous on the counter attack, I thought we might have to stop the game at certain points and, [with Matty Cash] on a yellow card, you can leave yourself vulnerable. “The last thing you need is to get a red card in that situation so I thought it was the right decision for the team. “I wanted to throw two at it, two up top, try to make it more about the central defenders [so took off Douglas Luiz for Ollie Watkins]. “I didn’t think we needed a holding midfielder in that position at the time. We were controlling the game, getting in the right areas and I needed more bodies in the box and I needed more of a goal threat there. “I felt like we were lacking something in the final third so I wanted to take someone who was playing deep out of the game and to be more ambitious and more aggressive. “The result is the same, that’s the reality. We carried the frustration on from last week. “That’s on me, we’ve only taken one point from our last three games. “It’s a bad combination in football when you concede goals and don’t score many. “I need to take that on my shoulders and the players need to as well. We need to stick together. “I’m not going to grasp at straws, the reality is we never had enough quality in the final third. We didn’t creative enough. Ben Foster didn’t have enough to do, especially at home. “It’s not difficult for me to motivate the players, but motivating yourself comes from within. That’s on you as a footballer.” Steven Gerrard.
Quotes

🟥 19 February 2022, Villa 0-1 Watford, Villa Park

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MATCH REPORTS

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*BBC Sport*
Saturday, 19 February 2022

**Emmanuel Dennis’ late header gave Roy Hodgson his first goal and first win as Watford boss, and earned the Hornets a valuable win at Aston Villa.** Villa dominated proceedings but Watford grabbed all three points when Dennis powered home Ismaila Sarr’s 78th-minute cross after an opportunistic counter-attack. It ended the visitors’ four-game goal drought and saw them move up to 18th in the table, four points from safety. The defeat for Villa means Steven Gerrard’s side are now winless in seven of their past eight matches. Hornets end barren streak Incredibly, Watford’s last six Premier League away wins have now come under six different managers. The Hornets’ managerial merry-go-round has been well reported, and new boss Hodgson already seemed under pressure coming into this fixture after collecting just one point from an available nine since taking charge in January. As the game went on, Watford were on course to drop to the bottom of the league table with results going against them elsewhere, and looked set to equal a club record of five consecutive games without a goal. The Hornets soaked up plenty of Villa pressure, and twice went close through Dennis and Moussa Sissoko on the break. Sarr, starting his first match since winning the Africa Cup of nations with Senegal, created the winner, chipping the ball up for Dennis to nod in. The Hornets held on for their first victory in 12 matches, since beating Manchester United 4-1 in November. Sloppy Villa slip to another defeat Having started his reign at Aston Villa with four wins from six matches, Gerrard has now seen his side lose four of their past eight. The Villains are closer to the relegation zone than they are to a place in Europe. The hosts were the better side throughout and should have gone in front in the 34th minute, when Danny Ings struck the base of the right post when clean through after a good move from Emi Buendia. They continued to create half-chances, with Phillipe Coutinho curling a looping effort onto the roof of the net midway through the second half. But once they fell behind, the opportunities dried up. Despite coming into this fixture as one of three teams to have scored in every home game this season, Villa failed to find a leveller, and stay 12th in the table. They will face Brighton & Hove Albion next Saturday, while Watford will host Crystal Palace on Wednesday.
Reports

🟥 19 February 2022, Villa 0-1 Watford, Villa Park

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