Woking 0-2 Watford: FA Cup third round – as it happened

Will Hughes and the substitute Troy Deeney gave Watford a comfortable victory over non-league Woking in their third-round tie

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That’s it for today’s blog. I’ll leave you with some freshly baked match reports, and a link to Nick Ames’ liveblog of Newport v Leicester. Thanks for your company, bye!

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All this afternoon’s final scores in the FA Cup

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There’s been a huge shock at Bramall Lane, where non-league Barnet have beaten Sheffield United 1-0. And Oldham, beloved Oldham, have beaten Fulham 2-1 at Craven Cottage.

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Post-match interviews

Troy Deeney “It was all about mentality. The boys who started set the tone with their professionalism and when I came on I was able to finish it off. I’ve worked a lot this season on getting into the six-yard box a bit more and it’s nice to make it three goals in two games.”

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Peep peep! Watford made 11 changes but still had too much class for Woking, who gave their all but were well beaten. They can now return to the more important business of trying to get promotion back to the National League.

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90+2 min: Woking 0-2 Watford The unusually indecisive Deeney passes up an excellent chance on the break, and then Loza appeals unsuccessfully for a penalty at the other end after a challenge from Navarro. I think he just lost his balance

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90 min Oldham are winning at Fulham! It’s 1989-94 all over again!

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90 min: Woking 0-2 Watford There will be four minutes of added endeavour.

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89 min Leroy Sane has made it Manchester City 7-0 Rotherham.

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88 min Fulham have missed a penalty against Oldham, and Shane Ferguson has scored two late goals to give Millwall the lead against Hull.

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87 min: Woking 0-2 Watford That was Woking’s best chance. Jolley surged down the right, held off Chalobah and stood up a lovely cross to the far post. Bradbury got above the Watford defenders but couldn’t quite get on top of the ball and headed over from four yards.

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85 min: Woking 0-2 Watford

More goals:

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84 min: Woking 0-2 Watford Britos scoops the ball forward to Deeney and keeps running. Deeney lobs a nice return pass into the path of Britos, who is just starting to dream of glory when the last man Cook comes across to head clear.

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82 min: Woking 0-2 Watford This game is over. Watford have been too good for Woking, who will have no complaints and should have no regrets.

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81 min There has been a flurry of goals in the other FA Cup games. These are the latest scores:

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80 min: Woking 0-2 Watford Sema is okay to continue, and Marc Navarro comes on to replace Will Hughes.

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78 min: Woking 0-2 Watford Sema is struggling after a tackle from Cook, who won the ball but then followed through into Sema’s ankle. Troy Deeney, a non-league footballer in spirit, has a good-natured back-and-forth with some of the home fans while he receives treatment.

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77 min These are the latest scores in the other 2pm kick-offs:

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Troy Deeney puts Woking’s hopes of a giantkilling into Row Z. The goal was created impressively by the substitute Sema, who outmuscled Bradbury down the left before driving a low cross that beat the keeper Ross and left Deeney with an open goal.

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73 min: Woking 0-1 Watford Gerring is marking Deeney, who he promised to put in Row Z on Friday.

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72 min: Woking 0-1 Watford And now Ken Sema replaces Adalberto Penaranda.

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71 min: Woking 0-1 Watford Troy Deeney comes on for Watford, replacing Isaac Success.

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70 min: Woking 0-1 Watford A double change for Woking: Harvey Bradbury, son of Manchester City legend Lee, and Paul Hodges replace Toby Edser and Greg Luer

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69 min: Woking 0-1 Watford Nothing much is happening out there. Watford are nowhere near as dominant as they were in the first half, though Woking still haven’t really been able to lay a glove on them.

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67 min: Woking 0-1 Watford Little gets away with a crunching, old-fashioned tackle on Hughes. He took the ball but it looked like his studs were showing as well. We haven’t seen a replay.

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63 min: Woking 0-1 Watford Little is putting himself about and gets involved in a minor spat with Masina.

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62 min: Woking 0-1 Watford The substitute Little has Woking’s first shot on target, a well-struck shot from 25 yards that is comfortably held by Gomes despite an awkward bounce.

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60 min: Woking 0-1 Watford Woking make their first change, with Armani Little replacing Harry Taylor.

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59 min: Woking 0-1 Watford Cleverley tries a simple square pass and wheninRomes it straight out of play.

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58 min These are the latest scores in the other 2pm kick-offs:

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56 min: Woking 0-1 Watford A bit of an opportunity for Woking. Loza’s deep cross from the left is headed back across goal by Hyde, and Gomes springs from his line to claim the ball just in front of Luer. That was a half-chance for Hyde, who I think was trying to go for goal rather than head it down towards Luer.

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56 min: Woking 0-1 Watford Watford have had 15 shots at goal to Woking’s none.

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55 min Penaranda dances past two players before curling a few yards wide from distance. Ross has it covered, and in truth it wasn’t a great effort. He is clearly very talented, though his decision-making hasn’t been too good today. He’s trying a bit too hard to impress.

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54 min: Woking 0-1 Watford Though they haven’t threatened an equaliser, Woking have had much more of the game since half-time. The left-winger Loza looks their biggest threat.

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53 min: Woking 0-1 Watford Hughes plays a nice pass to Success, who tries to run straight through two defenders on the edge of the box. The ball takes a few ricochets before dribbling through to the keeper Ross.

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50 min: Woking 0-1 Watford Loza wins a free-kick for Woking with a good run down the left. Set-pieces look like Woking’s best chance of an equaliser - but not this time, with Casey’s free-kick drifting out of play on the far side.

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48 min: Woking 0-1 Watford The biggest cheer of the afternoon, as the muscular Success accidentally sends the assistant referee tumbling over an advertising hoarding.

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46 min: Woking 0-1 Watford Peep peep! Watford begin the second half.

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These are the half-time scores in the other 2pm kick-offs. Phil Foden has scored for Manchester City.

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Half-time reading

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Peep peep! Watford deservedly lead through Will Hughes’ 13th-minute goal. Woking will be glad to go in only 1-0 down, because though their effort was beyond reproach, they were outclassed for much of that half. See you in 10 minutes for the second half.

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44 min: Woking 0-1 Watford Quina dances infield from the left, beats Collier with a lovely stepover and cuts the ball back to Hughes. He tries to flick it behind his standing leg towards goal, but can only divert it across the six-yard line and Woking clear.

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41 min: Woking 0-1 Watford Woking have struggled to put any pressure on Watford, who have been in cruise control with and without the ball.

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38 min: Woking 0-1 Watford Casey ruffles the bleached locks of Penaranda, who responds with a little punch of Casey’s thigh. I think that’s what happened, anyway, though we haven’t seen a replay yet. Either way, the referee took no action.

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36 min: Woking 0-1 Watford Cleverley hits the bar! It was a spectacular free-kick, curled from a long way out to the left. Ross couldn’t get across his line quickly enough and it slammed off the bar.

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32 min: Woking 0-1 Watford Penaranda, who has faded after a lively start, hits a dismal free-kick which deflects behind for a corner. Nothing comes of it.

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30 min: Woking 0-1 Watford Usually it’s the team in front who want to hear the half-time whistle, but it’s the opposite today. Woking will be very happy if it stays like this for the next 15 minutes, so that they can regroup and try to unnerve Watford as the stakes get higher later in the game. At the moment, Watford are in control.

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29 min These are the latest scores in the other 2pm kick-offs:

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28 min: Woking 0-1 Watford Gerring is booked for an earthy challenge from behind on Success. That was straight outta 1991.

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26 min: Woking 0-1 Watford A lovely move from Watford. Hughes angles a good ball into Success, who flicks it deftly into the path of the onrushing Cleverley. He moves into the box before hitting a shot that is blocked by Gerring.

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25 min: Woking 0-1 Watford Woking have had more of the ball since going behind, though the gap between the teams is still obvious. The pitch is in excellent condition, which is helping Watford.

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23 min: Woking 0-1 Watford Casey’s high, hanging cross from the left is met by Gerring, whose towering header is comfortably saved to his right by Gomes. It wouldn’t have counted as Gerring has been flagged offside, erroneously I think.

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22 min: Woking 0-1 Watford Watford break three-on-three from a Woking free-kick. Quina has options left and right; instead he lumps it into orbit from 25 yards.

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21 min These are the scores in the other 2pm kick-offs. Raheem Sterling has given Manchester City the lead against Rotherham.

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19 min: Woking 0-1 Watford That could have been 2-0. Janmaat’s low, near-post cross from the right is met by Success, whose snap volley is saved crucially by Ross. Watford are playing extremely well.

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18 min: Woking 0-1 Watford Replays suggest Hughes’s shot took a slight but important deflection off the head of Jolley, which is probably why Edser then misjudged his attempted header off the line.

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15 min: Woking 0-1 Watford Success is booked for diving. Moments before the goal, by the way, Masina had a shot cleared off the line by Edser. That led to the corner which led to the goal.

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Watford take the lead from a left-wing corner. Masina angled it sharply back for the negligently unmarked Hughes, who curled an emphatic first-time shot into the far corner. Edser, on the far post, tried to head it clear and ended up misjudging the flight of the ball. Had he stayed on the post, standing upright, it would probably have hit him in the face.

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13 min: Woking 0-0 Watford

These are the scores in the other 2pm kick-offs:

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11 min: Woking 0-0 Watford Woking are starting to come into the game. Luer bursts into the box on the right before being crucially dispossessed by Masina.

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9 min: Woking 0-0 Watford Watford have started with a lot of authority, and Woking haven’t really been able to build any momentum as a result.

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7 min This is a really eyecatching start from the Venezuelan debtuant Penaranda. He cuts infield from the left, beats Collier and curls a fine shot which bounces just past the far post with Ross probably beaten.

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5 min “A defender denies an attacker a goalscoring opportunity and gets sent off,” says Kevin Ryan. “An attacker dives in the penalty area, thus seeking a clear goalscoring opportunity for his side and receives a yellow card. Doesn’t seem quite to add up in this Dude’s opinion. What do you think?”

The punishments fit the crimes, no?

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4 min The lively Penaranda charges infield from the left and drags the ball back to Quina, whose stinging shot from the edge of the box is blocked by Collier. The sound of leather on bare thigh brought back a million unpleasant memories of the stinging kiss of the Mitre Mouldmaster on a cold day in the school playground.

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3 min The debutant Penaranda scuffs a tame shot through to Ross from 25 yards. Watford have started well though.

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2 min Success tries an acrobatic overhead kick from inside the D. Goalkick to Woking.

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1 min Woking, in red-and-white halves, get the match underway. Watford are in their turquoise away kit.

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The players emerge to a lively, hopeful atmosphere at Kingfield. This is Woking’s biggest crowd for 22 years. It’s time for business.

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Watford have made 11 changes from the side that drew 3-3 at Bournemouth in the week, and hopefully allayed Alan Dowson’s fears of a cricket score. Woking are without their leading scorer, Max Kretzschmar, who has a hamstring injury.

Woking (4-2-3-1) Ross, Collier, Cook, Gerring, Casey; Taylor, Jolley; Luer, Edser, Loza; Hyde.
Substitutes: Schotterl, Bradbury, Little, Hodges, Hester-Cook, Wheeler, Spence.

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Pre-match reading

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We’ll also have updates from the other 2pm games, which are:

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Hello. That’s enough of the pleasantries; let’s do some time travel! I’ve prepared 1.21 gigawatts and set the DeLorean to 5th January 1991, the date when Woking - and Tim Buzaglo in particular - became part of FA Cup folklore. Buzaglo scored an expert hat-trick as Woking beat West Brom 4-2 at the Hawthorns in the third round of the FA Cup, an achievement which registered 9.7 on the footballromanceometer - and which briefly turned him into a slightly discombobulated celebrity.

Woking met Everton at Goodison Park in the next round, and played very verily in a 1-0 defeat. The glory of that cup run often overshadows some memorable giant-bothering a few years later. They beat a number of Football League sides from 1994-97, and also drew away to Premier League side Coventry before losing a replay 2-1.

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