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Watford drop into relegation zone: How is it all going so wrong?
15.10.26, 08:00 Updated 14.10.26, 23:04
Burnley arrived at Vicarage Road on Saturday bottom of the Championship, with one league win to their name in the whole of 2026. The Clarets were 3-0 up inside 25 minutes and the fixture finished 4-0 after Marcus Edwards dealt the final blow late on. By the end, the Rookery were singing “sacked in the morning”, aimed on the surface at Alessio Dionisi, but a jibe towards the ownership more than anything.
Three days later it got worse. Cardiff City, sitting 21st and a point behind Watford, scored four before half-time and won 5-1. It was a fourth straight league defeat, and it dropped the Hornets into the relegation zone. Afterwards Dionisi was angry, he stated the problem was "much bigger" than simply 'problems off the pitch'.
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