The big question leading up to Sunday's game with West Ham was whether Watford's players would show the ill effects of the uncertainty regarding the future of head coach Marco Silva.

Undoubtedly, many of them owe much of their personal form and certainly the Hornets' as a whole to the 40-year-old, who has rejuvinated a club on its way down with impressive agility.

The level of workrate and commitment that Silva demands would seem at odds with his ambiguous stance on his future, but evidently had no effect on the club in their first game since speculation grew to a crescendo.

Silva said: "No one has asked me about the situation in the dressing room. We talk every day, every day they feel the same about our work. There has not been any difference. For me, it’s the same.

"They don’t see a difference, and they don’t need to ask anything. We talk about everything, and they talk more with my assistants than me sometimes.

"I know the players work, and they know how I am, how committed I am, I have no doubts that they are behind me, although I understand some people outside may."