Steve Evans was in little doubt where the fault lay for Rotherham United’s 3-0 defeat at Vicarage Road tonight.

The Millers came into the game off the back of a 5-0 thumping at Wolves on Saturday and their defensive problems were added to when Kari Arnason’s slip gave Odion Ighalo the opportunity to give Watford the lead.

The Rotherham boss would have been hoping his side could still take something back to Yorkshire at the interval but within 11 minutes of the restart the game was effectively decided after Troy Deeney and Ighalo netted a quick-fire double for the Hornets.

Evans said: “If you make big errors you get punished in the Championship if you come to a club with the players that Watford have got. Kari Arnason, slipping and falling over, I don’t think you’ll see that again in the Championship this season, but we’ve been done by individual errors.

“I’ve just been in the dressing room and the players concerned accepts it’s individual errors and it probably falsifies the last 15, 20 minutes where Watford have a bit of the ball, with the quality they’ve got and they’ve got the freedom to express themselves. But if we make individual errors, like we’ve done at Wolves and like we’ve done tonight, we’ll get punished, it’s as simple as that.”

Reflecting further on Arnason’s slip for the first goal, Evans continued: “I think we were on top at that time. We’ve made a couple of chances and in fact immediately after Kari’s mistake Matt Derbyshire should have gone on, although (Heurelho) Gomes has made a good save at his near post. But we’re in the game very much at that stage. And we said to the players ‘let’s be in the game on 70, 75 minutes’ and if we’re in the game on 75 minutes we know Watford get a little bit edgy, they’re fighting for a huge prize like we are, but when you make further errors – we’ve had the slip from Kari, which is disappointing, but then we’ve had two bigger individual errors that really took the game out of our hands.”