Watford manager Roy Hodgson has said his team ‘weren’t good enough’ in their 2-0 Premier League loss to Brighton and Hove Albion at Vicarage Road. Speaking to the press after the game, the Watford boss said his team’s first-half display was a key factor in the loss,
Roy Hodgson said: “We weren’t good enough to win it. I thought our first-half performance was much worse than I was expecting it to be. Analysing the last two games, and seeing the players in training, we had high hopes. But certainly, in the first half, we certainly did a lot to dash those hopes ourselves.”
He went on to claim the second half was better but it left them vulnerable as Brighton went on to score their second on the day. Summing up the performance,
Roy Hodgson said: “The worst thing was, that I thought, that we were unable ourselves to put them under enough pressure – except for a couple of brief periods in the game when people did seem to show their talent and make life a bit more difficult for opponents. A lot of the things in our game today weren’t very good, I didn’t think. And as a result, we got the type of result we didn’t want. We’re going to have to be good at everything we do in the next 15 games if we’re going to pull ourselves away from the relegation zone.”
One positive of the game was the return of Sarr who came on at halftime. Of the winger, Hodgson spoke of how much he can help the team in the coming weeks.
Roy Hodgson said: “He’s a player that we are hoping will give us something a bit extra. It was a big ask for him today, having come back from Africa, and the celebrations from Senegal winning the cup, sort of asked more from him that he was able to give us today. But going forward I have big expectations for him.”
Though he also revealed that the Senegalese man had not even had a training session with the team ahead of the game.
