Watford vs Leicester City

Watford 1-3 Leicester City - Pedro - Maddison, Vardy, Barnes; TEAM: Foster; Ngakia, Kabasele, Cathcart, Masina; Kayembe, Sissoko, Gosling (Kamara); Kalu, ...

Watford has been relegated and could still finish last in the Premier League. Leicester can finish as high as eighth if they get help from Wolves.

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Ben Foster. Playing his last home game as a Watford player, he was sadly embarrassed at one stage by Jamie Vardy as he overcommitted on a cross only for the ...

Named the club's player of the season ahead of the game, the left-back came on at halftime to try and rescue things but saw his team concede only moments after he came on. Left too much space in the middle of the park for the opposition players to run through and create at will. Started slowly and gave the ball away so cheaply in the build up to the Foxes' second goal. Pushed into a wing-back role in the second half and seemed glad to be further away from his own goal. As Samir was injured in the warm up, Cathcart came in to start and would have been pretty angry with Masina for barging into him ahead of James Maddison's goal to level the scores. Playing his last home game as a Watford player, he was sadly embarrassed at one stage by Jamie Vardy as he overcommitted on a cross only for the striker to nip and head the ball into an open goal.

Jamie Vardy and Harvey Barnes scored two goals each as Leicester City thrashed relegated Watford 5-1 at Vicarage Road in the Premier League on Sunday.

Maddison played a long ball forward and Watford goalkeeper Ben Foster raced off his line to punch it clear but Vardy headed it home to put Leicester ahead. Barnes scored 30 seconds after the restart, volleying past Foster from substitute Marc Albrighton's cross, and set up Vardy's second with 20 minutes remaining for the striker to score his 14th league goal of the campaign. Watford led after six minutes through a half-volley from Joao Pedro after the away side failed to clear a corner, but James Maddison and Vardy scored in quick succession to turn the game in Leicester's favour.

HertsLive provides updates from Vicarage Road as the Hornets face the Foxes in the Premier League.

After a bright start to the game, the ‘Orns could have been two goals up at least. Chance Watford Chance Watford A day for dreadful defending and little else. The 'Orns will face a Leicester side who don't really have too much to play for today though. Indeed, Roy Hodgson has yet to pick up all three points in front of the home Hornets support, and so he'll want to put an end to that this afternoon.

Jamie Vardy scores twice as Leicester thrash already relegated Watford to consign them to a seventh defeat in eight Premier League games.

Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Harvey Barnes (Leicester City) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. - Shots - 39Kayembe - 19Sissoko - 11Masina - 15Cathcart - 27Kabasele - 2Ngakia - 1Foster The fans are entitled to be frustrated and upset with us and to make their opinions heard." When you analyse the goals we conceded, there isn't a lot good you could say.

Watford threw away an early lead to lose 5-1 against Leicester City in what was their last Premier League match at Vicarage Road for at least a…

The Foxes' wait for a fourth was ended in the 70th minute when Vardy got his second of the match. Kabasele headed over from Sema's corner as Watford looked to make the scoreline slightly more palatable, after Ward had to push Ngakia's cross/shot away at his near post. However, he was much less profligate with his second chance just a minute later, as the Hornets once again contributed to their own downfall. Despite the ball falling kindly for the Moroccan international, he was unable to keep his effort down and it flicked away off the crossbar. Hassane Kamara returned to the bench after serving a suspension for his red card at Crystal Palace. The thrashing was confirmed with Barnes' second five minutes from time.

Watford vs Leicester City. Premier League. 2:00pm, Sunday 15th May 2022. Vicarage RoadAttendance: Attendance20,257.

"In the final game of the season, you can't put in a performance like that. He also has 17 Premier League goal involvements this term (10 goals, seven assists), also his most in a season in the competition. You have to give the fans something to cheer about in the final home game and we didn't do that. Hopefully we can do what we did a couple of years ago and bounce back. Leicester travel to Chelsea on Thursday at 8pm. The fans are entitled to be frustrated and upset with us and to make their opinions heard." We want to be difficult to play against with or without the ball. It's never easy at this stage of the season when people think you have nothing to play for. I'm proud of the players. "We've had the worst home record in all the leagues. When you analyse the goals we conceded, there isn't a lot good you could say. "Bad mistakes led to the goals.

Watford vs Leicester City. Premier League. 2:00pm, Sunday 15th May 2022. Vicarage RoadAttendance: Attendance20,257.

"In the final game of the season, you can't put in a performance like that. He also has 17 Premier League goal involvements this term (10 goals, seven assists), also his most in a season in the competition. You have to give the fans something to cheer about in the final home game and we didn't do that. Hopefully we can do what we did a couple of years ago and bounce back. Leicester travel to Chelsea on Thursday at 8pm. The fans are entitled to be frustrated and upset with us and to make their opinions heard." We want to be difficult to play against with or without the ball. It's never easy at this stage of the season when people think you have nothing to play for. I'm proud of the players. "We've had the worst home record in all the leagues. When you analyse the goals we conceded, there isn't a lot good you could say. "Bad mistakes led to the goals.

The hosts took an early lead through a Joao Pedro goal that totally wasn't a Timothy Castagne own-goal. James Maddison and Jamie Vardy scored in quick ...

Literally as soon as I wrote that last bit, the visitors turned the ball over in the middle of the park and the break was on. Barnes lifted a marvellous ball over the top that took out the entire Hornets’ defence and saw Vardy one-on-one with Foster. The former Stocksbridge Park Steels man kept his nerve and casually passed the ball into the back of the net with the outside of his left boot. The busiest man for the rest of the half was the City physio. We travel to London to square off against Chelsea on Thursday and then close out the 2021/22 campaign at home against Southampton one week from today. If you think the other players don’t pick up on his example and feed off of it, you must be watching a different match. The armband changed hands again as Patson Daka came on for Vardy and Albrighton took over as captain. Vardy nodded it over the keeper and scored what will surely be the longest headed goal of his storied career. He spotted Vardy between the central defenders and launched an inch-perfect cross towards the former England man on the edge of the area. Remember the last match against Watford went the defenders just let a ball go over them, not realising that Madders was between them and the keeper? The ball was going wide, but Castagne was on hand to turn it into the net for the 20th goal the Foxes have conceded from a set-piece this year. Harvey Barnes bagged a brace after the break and Vardy added a second for himself to complete the wreckage. Watford won a corner on 5’ on the City left.