VIDEO NASTY
Foster’s highlights reel wrecked by Lowe
FORMER teacher Jamal Lowe schooled Ben Foster by ruining the former England keeper’s YouTube footage as well his afternoon.
Lowe scored twice to lift the Swans into the automatic promotion places, making it six goals in six games for the winger brought in from Wigan and converted into a striker.
A stretch like that gives licence for a certain swagger.
So it was a natural that Lowe should celebrate his equaliser by running into shot and waving at Foster’s personal GoPro camera he sets up in the corner of his goal.
The Watford keeper screens his keeper-cam stuff on his own YouTube channel and, to be fair, he had some decent highlights with two great saves to deny Andre Ayew and Korey Smith after Tom Cleverley had given Watford a 20th-minute lead.
But there was nothing he could do when Lowe curled a wonderful shot into the far corner from the edge of the box two minutes before the break.
The camera also got a closeup view of Lowe’s winner in the 67th minute – a brave headed effort as Foster misjudged Smith’s brilliant dipping cross, but the Swans ace did not.
Swansea deserved their victory, while new Watford manager Xisco Munoz could at least take some solace from the heavy pressure they exerted late on, even though this was the Hornets’ second defeat in three games.
“I thought we were by far the superior team,” said Swansea boss Steve Cooper.
“We gave up a bit of territory late on, but that happens when it’s only a one-goal margin. We showed great character and resilience after going 1-0 down against the run of play to not let it faze us and carry on as we were.” Cooper was also happy to praise Lowe, who the coach brought to the Liberty Stadium on a hunch that he might be a secret, untapped goalscorer.
After two goals in 18 matches, it looked a forlorn hope, but Lowe’s six in six makes him a reliable foil on days when Andre Ayew is subdued, like yesterday.
Cooper added: “Jamal has just got to keep going. Even when he wasn’t scoring, he was playing really well.
“Jamal will get the headlines I’m sure, but everyone was excellent.” Watford took the lead when Cleverley seized on errors by Marc Guehi and Matt Grimes to thump home a low drive from 25 yards. They were content to defend until Lowe’s first and only really responded after the striker had put his team ahead, with a Troy Deeney volley over the bar being their most wasteful response.
Spaniard Xisco said: “I am happy with the guys because they give the maximum. We are growing up day by day.
“Sometimes in football when you lose you have this moment.
“I liked the reaction of the guys when we conceded the second goal.”