November 2, 2024
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Vakoun Bayo bags brace as Watford claim Championship comeback win at  Preston – The Irish News

Watford making a habit of beating Boro after going behind

Saturday’s win at Vicarage Road was the third time since 1990 that Watford have gone behind to Middlesbrough in the second half of a game and come back to win.

All three were 2-1 successes, and the previous two occasions both happened in the early 90s at Boro’s old Ayresome Park ground.

Vakoun Bayo bags brace as Watford claim Championship comeback win at  Preston – The Irish News

The most recent was on March 23, 1991, when defender Simon Coleman put the home side ahead, Paul Wilkinson won a penalty that Glyn Hodges converted for the equaliser before the Welsh international then headed home the winner from a Gary Penrice cross.

You can see video highlights of that game on YouTube.

Vakoun Bayo bags brace as Watford claim Championship comeback win at  Preston – The Irish News

A little more than a year earlier almost exactly the same thing had happened, as on March 7, 1990, Ian Baird put Boro 1-0 up in 75th minute, before Gary Porter curled a free-kick around Andy Dibble and in the last-minute David Byrne went on a run that ended with a 20-yard curling effort into the top corner.

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