Troy Deeney insists Watford had a plan to target Fred in their recent clash with Manchester United because the midfielder “likes to take four or five touches” on the ball.
The Hornets were eventually beaten 3-0 by United at Old Trafford, having spurned a number of golden opportunities in the first half.
Deeney also had the ball in the net at one stage, only for his equaliser to be ruled out by VAR for an alleged handball.
And the veteran striker has shed light on their tactical plan against United, who they picked up a 2-0 win over at Vicarage Road back in December.
“I thought Bruno [Fernandes] was very good, surprised me how good he was,” Deeney told The United Stand.
“I liked Fred. Although he gives the ball away a lot, he always wants it. So sometimes you see a player lose the ball and then they just go safe, backwards, left, right. He’s just like, ‘Alright, I lost it, but next one’.
“Because we targeted him. We targeted him, not the manager, but on the pitch he gave the ball away two or three times and we were like, ‘Let him have it and then we’ll jump on him’.
“We probably won the ball back four or five times in the first half. We tried to do that because we know he likes to take four or five touches instead of maybe doing the two.”
Deeney was left baffled by the final scoreline that day at Old Trafford, scratching his head as to how the visitors went in behind at half-time.
“3-0 I think it was, but that wasn’t a fair reflection of it was it, in reality,” he continued.
“Our first half – it’s probably happened about four years in a row – every time I play at Man United I’m like, ‘How are we losing?’
“I don’t mean this nasty, but there’s times where we’ve battered you in terms of like – you’ll always have possession – but chances created, should have scored, we were better. And then I’m like, ‘We’re losing 1-0? What’s happened here?’
“I think two things: we can probably get a bit carried away, in a sense of like: ‘This is going better than [we thought] so let’s be more attacking’ and kind of get lax on the defensive part.
“But also you have to look at the players United have got, you’re talking levels to football. Martial, Rashford, Bruno, Iggy. Just look at who you’ve spent money on, and in five years in the Prem we’ve spent £30m once.
“It doesn’t mean we can’t compete, it doesn’t mean you always get it right when you buy big, but it’s just levels.”
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