A 19th here would have set a top‑flight record and seemed a certainly given they were facing opponents who sat in the relegation zone at kick-off, having not won any of their last five league games. But instead Nigel Pearson’s men recorded a resounding and fully deserved victory, scoring all of their three goals in the second half, with Ismaïla Sarr their undoubted star. The Senegal winger, making his first start in over a month having been sidelined with a hamstring injury, scored the hosts’ opening two goals before assisting Troy Deeney for the third. We don’t have to defend or try to get the record we just can try to win football games again.” Liverpool, who produced only one shot on target and defensively were poor, are still well on course to win the title given they sit 22 points clear of Manchester City – albeit having played a game more – and require only 12 points from their last 10 fixtures to be crowned champions for the first time since 1990. For Watford, the priority is avoiding relegation and they will feel that is more than possible after this win, not only because of who it came against but also because it lifts them out of the bottom three, albeit it on goal difference. “To beat the best club side in the world is testament to how we played,” said Pearson, for whom the only negative of this game was the knee injury sustained in the first half by Gerard Deulofeu, which required him to go to hospital and is likely to keep him out of action for some time.
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