Wales beat someone further south than Italy, at last; LeFondre scores, at last; City win away, at last and the Slade knockers can keep quiet, at last.

Yeh? So you wanted Russell Slade’s team to excite a little more? Get the blood pressure up? Then you should have seen this. Please bring back boring the Cardiff City who clawed 4 points form leeds and Birmingham as my blood pressure can’t take it.



He scores at last, City win away at last, the doubters can rest their tongues, at last!


 

First half had City playing 4-4-2, well ok you probably guessed that didn’t you? Except this time we looked good value in an away match. The difference? Kenwynne Jones and LeFondre link up better than Macheda and LeFondre. The Jamaican was constantly flicking the ball into space for LeFondre. If this develops they are going to be lethal. Ok, famous last words, but it is promising.

Early on Kenwynne headed for goal, it hit the post but LeFondre wanders (and I kid ye not) wanders up to the ball as it sits near the goal line just seeming to be playing silly buggers until he finally strokes it home. Maybe he was waiting to see if it would go over on its own accord to give the goal to Kenwynne. Please don’t do that again Adam. Strikers are greedy. Just make sure it goes in.

So we then had 80 minutes of Watford demonstrating how not to score. They had over seventy percent of possession, and at times it must have been a great deal more. They had shots, headers, dribbling into the area but couldn’t equalise.

I have just read that they only had 22 shots, against Cardiff’s 11, well it didn’t seem like that!

A Watford goal surely had to come. Surely? Another brilliant Marshall save, oh, it hit the post, ye Gods how can he blast it so high over the bar from there?

80 minutes of heart attack inducing attacking football from the team in yellow.

But the blue shirt’s luck held – you see what I did there Mister Tan? I used the word ‘luck’ with ‘blue shirt.’ The lucky Blue Shirts.

And be sure of this, do not let anyone tell you otherwise but we needed good fortune to go with the Hornets profligacy.

Just as you think you can cancel the cardiac arrest team so the ref adds on 5 minutes injury time. Really ref? 5 minutes? Almost certainly punishment for the Cardiff time wasting but a little excessive.

But by then Watford had run out of ideas in fact City might have added a second. LeFondre and Kenwynne had opportunities late on as Watford stretched themselves.

So what goes with relief? Well the much demanded 3 away points, that’s what. 3 Away points to put us up to 8^th , just outside the doors that say ‘play off zone, Premier league football this way.’

Getting out the crystal ball I see a win against Rotherham at home, a tough away match at Bournemouth followed by a tight home one against Brentford. The next three games will be demanding but Russell Slade’s side look like they are realising their potential. Let the doubters apologise.

Tan got his selection of manager bang on and Slade got the tactics bang on.