NO SILVA LINING! Supersub Gray adds to ex-manager’s torment

ANDRE GRAY piled more misery on his old boss Marco Silva with the goal that extended Everton’s dreadful run.

This defeat made it four in five Premier League matches for the team Silva finally joined following his acrimonious departure from Watford.

And with that FA Cup loss to Millwall last month, the Portuguese and his men really are on a downer. They were poor for large periods, especially in the first half. And while they were twice denied by the woodwork and arguably deserved a point, they certainly didn’t deserve anything more.

To be fair, Watford weren’t any better in those first 45 minutes.

But they didn’t waste the one good chance that came their way after the interval and Gray, a halftime substitute, struck his fifth of the season to give them a victory they so desperately wanted against their ex-manager. Watford boss Javi Gracia can take much of the credit for changing the Hornets system, although the goal owed so much to the delicious reverse pass Craig Cathcart played to Will Hughes, who provided the cross for Gray.

Everton had enough chances to win the game with Gylfi Sigurdsson and Lucas Digne hitting the bar, and Dominic CalvertLewin missing a good headed chance late on.

And to compound the visitors’ misery, Kurt Zouma was sent off – without even realising he had been – after the final whistle for two bookings that came within 15 seconds of each other.

Silva’s men, like their manager, were furious because they felt Watford were given a corner in the leadup to their goal that should have been a goal-kick.

An angry Silva (right) said: “In the moment they scored the goal, the corner was not a corner. The ball passed half- a- metre away from Jordan Pickford and no one touched the ball. “I spoke with Kurt at the end of the match and he sai d he received one yellow card and, after, the referee gave him the second one.

“I know we should stay calm but