Watford In Team Of The Week

Watford are represented in the latest Premier League team of the week that has been selected by BBC pundit Garth Crooks.

Actually Garth is now down as a ‘Football Analyst’ these days, a posh term for a pundit then!

The performance by Odion Ighalo in the Watford win over Liverpool at the weekend at Vicarage Road was enough to earn a place in attack alongside the other, in the opinion of the former Spurs striker anyway, most impressive performers in the topflight over the latest weekend.

I think we’ll already know ourselves, and not just based on the latest performance, why Crooks, we’ll also not argue with it, selected Ighalo as part of his team but explaining his choice he told the BBC.

‘Watford’s skipper Troy Deeney said it in his post-match interview: “This lad is on fire.” And he is.

‘I had originally picked Cameron Jerome in my team of the week, but Jerome will just have to settle for becoming part of Norwich City folklore having beaten Manchester United 2-1 at Old Trafford for the first time since 1989. When you see off someone like Martin Skrtel, score two goals and beat Liverpool 3-0 – and all in one afternoon – I really had no choice but to pick Odion Ighalo.’

It’s always good to see us represented in this way, and well played to Ighalo for his recognition, which came after his ninth successive Premier League goal, but the most important thing about the weekend was of course another Watford win to make it four in a row!