Craig Cathcart says Watford fitness will improve

Watford defender Craig Cathcart is confident his side's fitness will improve over the next few weeks.

The Hornets were leading Chelsea 1-0 on Saturday, but conceded twice in the last 10 minutes to Michy Batshuayi and Diego Costa to come away empty-handed.

They will be back at Vicarage Road on Tuesday night to face Gillingham in the EFL Cup, with Cathcart looking for a quick response from his side.

"Fitness might come into it a little bit, but it's still early in the season and we're all finding our feet," he told the Watford Observer.

"The games come thick and fast so over the next few weeks I'm sure it won't be a factor at all.

"We want to mix it with the best teams and we did (against Chelsea). It's hard to look at the positives because we feel so deflated losing those two late goals.

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"But we'll look at the game in the next few days and look at the positives and pick ourselves up.

"I think we deserved at least a draw. I thought we were excellent in the first half, and restricted them to very little.

"We got in behind a few times and in the second half we knew they would come at us and knew they had a lot of quality."