Odion Ighalo joined a very select Watford club on Saturday when he scored four times in the 7-2 victory over Blackpool.

The striker became the 15th different player to score four or more goals for the Hornets in a league game and only the sixth to achieve it since the end of World War Two.

Here is a more in-depth at the five occasions four goals have been scored in a Watford league match since 1945.

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Michael Chopra in action in the FA Cup semi-final. Pictures: Action Images

Michael Chopra (Burnley 4 Watford 7 – Saturday, April 5, 2003)

A week before Watford lost to Southampton in the FA Cup semi-finals, 224 Hornets fans were at Turf Moor to witness a remarkable match in which nine goals were scored in the first half alone. Ray Lewington’s side were seemingly coasting when on-loan Newcastle United striker Chopra netted his first to put the visitors 4-1 ahead after only 28 minutes. Chopra was to score again before the interval but by half-time Burnley were only a goal behind thanks largely to Gareth Taylor’s first-half hat-trick. He was to be joined on three goals by Chopra on the hour, before the striker added his fourth in the closing stages.

Luther Blissett (Watford 8 Sunderland 0 – Saturday, September 25, 1982)

Watford’s record scorer was to also net four times in an FA Cup third round victory over Sheffield United in 1985, but almost two-and-a-half years before that he achieved the feat for the first time in undoubtedly one of the most famous results in the club’s history. It shouldn’t be forgotten this was just the Hornets’ seventh game in their maiden season in the top-flight, but by half-time they were 4-0 up through Blissett, Jenkins and a Nigel Callaghan brace. Graham Taylor’s side could easily have recorded an even more emphatic record Football League score, but Blissett scored again, set up Jenkins’ second, before adding two more to complete his four-goal salvo.

Ross Jenkins (Watford 4 Oxford United 2 – Saturday, September 23, 1978)

In scoring 37 goals in all competitions to help guide the Hornets to promotion at the end of the season, Jenkins scored three hat-tricks between August and November 1978, the second of which saw him net all four in a 4-2 home win over Oxford United. A crowd of 12,949 witnessed his quartet at Vicarage Road, with the win marking the start of a run of six successive home league victories.

Barry Dyson (Watford 5 Northampton Town 1 – Friday, April 12, 1968)

Despite only joining the club in January 1968, Dyson finished the season as Watford’s top scorer with 15 goals in 20 games as Ken Furphy’s finished six points shy of the promotion places in sixth in Division Three. Dyson’s four in the victory over Northampton Town took him to 13 goals in as many games at that stage of the season, with Stewart Scullion also netting in the middle of a sequence of five successive home wins to round off the campaign.

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Luther Blissett scored four in Watford's record-breaking win over Sunderland.

Maurice Cook (Watford 5 Millwall 3 – Wednesday, March 30, 1955)

A crowd of less than less 5,000 were at Vicarage Road for this Wednesday night encounter as Watford’s outstanding player of the 1950s netted four times as Len Goulden’s side got the better of a Millwall team that was to finish one point and two places higher in the Division Three (South) table. Watford’s other scorer in the game was Roy Brown.

This article was written with assistance from Watford Mailing List's Jon Sinclair and watfordfcarchive.com