It’s real Chair-raiser as mad Vlad gives his Hornets Wat for
VLADIMIR IVIC blasted his below-par Watford side after the Hornets blew a chance to go top of the league.
Ilias Chair struck a deserved late equaliser for QPR after Ben Wilmot had put the visitors ahead in the third minute with his first goal for the club.
Rangers’ leveller prevented Watford from hitting top spot and Ivic was angry with his team’s performance.
The Serbian boss said: “I’m disappointed. I would have said the same whatever the result – but we should have won it.
“It is not the way I want my team to play – without energy, without passion from the start. We were lucky to score right at the beginning.
“And we need to think a lot about it.
“It is too early to say what all the problems are, but we know we had a big problem especially in the second half and need to fix it.
“If we are to have big goals and big targets this season then we need to change our attitude for the next game – and have it for every game.
“My team can give more, much more.”
Rangers boss Mark Warburton said: “We more than deserved it and feel it was two points dropped against a very good Watford team.
“We had the better chances and looked dangerous after giving away a poor goal at the start, missing a clearance.
“But they reacted well and looked a good team.”
The visitors took the lead almost immediately from a set-piece.
Joao Pedro and Ken Sema worked a short corner on the left and when Sema whipped the cross in a slight flick left Wilmot free to crash the ball home from a couple of yards.
It was a first goal for the club for the centre-back and came just days after a debut strike for England Under-21s against Andorra.
QPR responded with Macauley Bonne having a header blocked on the line.
William Troost-Ekong, in Sierra Leone with Nigeria last week, then had a great chance to double Watford’s lead but headed Kiko Femenia’s free-kick wide.
Hornets’ former England goalkeeper Ben Foster pulled off a brilliant point-blank save to deny Dominic Ball, who had been found five yards out by Chair – and Bonne headed wide.
Ivic threw on Troy Deeney and Domingos Quina after the break before Conor Masterson headed against the bar.
Scotland hero Lyndon Dykes joined the fray after 55 minutes – and it was from his 77thminute flick that Chair coolly slotted the ball into the far corner with his left foot.
He also had an effort ruled out and picked up a booking for putting the ball into the net with his hand in the last minute.
Dieng 6; Kane 5, Masterson 6, Barbet 7, Wallace 5 (Hamalainen (46th)
6); Cameron 6, Ball 5 (Willock (56th)
6); Osayi-Samuel 6 (Adomah (69th)
6), Carroll 7, Chair 7; Bonne 6 (Dykes
(55th) 6)
Foster 6; Troost-Ekong
6, Cathcart 7, Wilmot 7; Femenia 7, Chalobah 6, Capoue 6, Sema 7; Sarr
6, Pedro 6 (Quina (46th) 6), Gray 5 (Deeney (46th) 6)
Ilias Chair
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