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7¹ A twenty yard drive from BIERETH caused the 'keeper no problem. 15¹ The hapless 'keeper was a mere bystander as a backpass from GUILLAMÓN dropped just over. 18¹ An outswinging corner was headed into the arms of the Bradford City 'keeper by SARR. 25¹ A shot from JOÃO PEDRO seemed a certain goal but the 'keeper managed to parry the ball clear. 26¹ ZAKARIA worked the ball to HARALDSSON, BIERETH collected his pass and kicked the ball within easy reach of the Watford 'keeper. 26¹ A late foul gets GUILLAMÓN a yellow card. 33¹ GOAL!! A hefty goal-kick from FLORENZI caught the Watford defence square and EKITIKÉ raced through to sidestep the 'keeper and score. (1-0 Bradford City) 37¹ DIOGO DALOT beat three Bradford City players and blasted an effort over. 38¹ A tame shot from JOÃO PEDRO rolled agonisingly wide. 39¹ A great effort from DIOGO DALOT scraped the outside of the lefthand post. 40¹ GOAL!! A swerving outswinging corner was headed in at the far post by DIOGO DALOT. (1-1) 43¹ BIERETH's header was well saved by LENO. 44¹ MERTENS beat DIOGO DALOT and fired the ball to EKITIKÉ who toe-poked his effort wide. 45¹ A pin-point pass fell to MWANGA and his right foot shot flew narrowly over. 1² MERTENS shot wide. 3² SARR was put clear by TODIBO and he raced past the Bradford City 'keeper but rammed his shot just beyond the far post. 5² GOAL!! A mishit GORETZKA shot fell to JOÃO PEDRO who made no mistake from just inside the area. (2-1 Watford) 7² MERTENS booked. 12² LENO saved a neatly crafted shot from MERTENS. 15² A brilliant shot from SARR was dealt with by a useful parry from the Bradford City 'keeper. 17² The Bradford City 'keeper dived to his right to save an accurate drive from Watford's JOÃO PEDRO. 18² A free-kick from SARR floated just beyond the far post. 30² GOAL!! On the right wing DAVID collected a defender's clearance and hit it into the penalty box for JOÃO PEDRO to hammer it home. (3-1 Watford) 35² A header from ALEX SANDRO was booted off the line by BAIDOO. 44² A mix up in the Bradford City defence enabled SARR to fire the ball just wide. 44² DIOGO DALOT stroked a simple chance past the far post.

Watford   League position: 6 Home league form: WWXL Overall league form: WLWOWWXW Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Bernd LENO 7  1 7½ Yassine BOUNOU NACHO 7  2 6½ Alessandro FLORENZI José DIOGO DALOT 7  3 7  ALEX SANDRO Lobo Leon GORETZKA 7½ 4 7½ Denis ZAKARIA Jean-Clair TODIBO 7  5 6½ Junior MWANGA Samson BAIDOO 6½ 6 5½ Hugo GUILLAMÓN (c)Nemanja MATIC 5½ 7 7½ Hákon HARALDSSON JOÃO PEDRO Junqueira 7  8 6½ Mika BIERETH (p)Ismaïla SARR 7  9 7  Dries MERTENS(c,p) (f)Oleksandr ZINCHENKO 6½ 10 6½ VICTOR HUGO Gomes(f) Jonathan DAVID 6½ 11 7  Hugo EKITIKÉ Manager SAVINHO    12    GABRIEL Barbosa JONNY    13    Gabriel SLONINA Arturo VIDAL    14    Marco VERRATTI NUNO Alexandre MENDES    15 7½ Malcolm EBIOWEI Brayann PEREIRA 7½ 16    Linus GECHTER

Bradford City   League position: 9 Away league form: WXWW Overall league form: WLWLXLWX Formation: 4-3-3

Watford go through to the next round

Statistics

Watford 3 Bradford City 1 (Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 21,351, Stadium: Vicarage Road, Referee: Russell Booth 6) Diogo Dalot 40¹, João Pedro 5², João Pedro 30² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Ekitiké 33¹ MaticóPereira 24² FlorenzióEbiowei 0²       Guillamón 26¹, Mertens 7² 2 4 5 6 0 0 7 6 8 3 15 9 4 5 57% 43% ¶ Man of the match: Denis Zakaria ¶