Troy Deeney targets perfect nine-point month for Watford
Friday 25 September 2015 15:13, UK
Watford skipper Troy Deeney is targeting a perfect nine-point September after playing his part in back-to-back Premier League victories.
The promoted Hornets claimed their first win of the campaign with a 1-0 home win over Swansea last weekend and followed it up with a 2-1 victory at struggling Newcastle on Saturday to climb into the top half of the table.
They host Crystal Palace next weekend determined to complete a maximum nine-point haul for the month, but with Deeney warning they cannot allow their standards to slip.
The 27-year-old striker told his club's website: "We targeted this as being a big month - there are teams in and around us that we are playing, teams like Swansea and Crystal Palace, who have high aspirations of pushing on.
"It's been a good month so far and if we can win all three, it will be a fantastic month.
"In the Premier League, it can easily change to losing five on the bounce, so we must be very careful that we approach the Crystal Palace game with a bit of caution and give them the respect they deserve."
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If Watford gave Newcastle respect, they did so only briefly as they set about dismantling Steve McClaren's new-look side to devastating effect, striker Odion Ighalo firing the visitors into a 10th-minute lead.
Ighalo doubled his tally with 28 minutes gone after Deeney had split a flat-footed defence to expose 'keeper Tim Krul.
Full-back Daryl Janmaat - worryingly for McClaren once again Newcastle's most effective attacker - reduced the deficit with 62 minutes gone to end a 464-minute wait for a league goal, but that was as good as it got for the home side.
Deeney said: "In the Championship, perhaps we would have gone on to score four or five, but we were a little naive in the sense that we didn't try and boss them."
