Following Watford’s impressive victory at Turf Moor on Sunday, the ‘Orns have a great opportunity to make it three wins from three this coming weekend, as they take on Crystal Palace at Vicarage Road.

Roy Hodgson’s side will be hoping to get back to winning ways following their defeat to Liverpool on Monday night.

Palace provide a different test to what we have seen against Brighton and Burnley.

I’m not sure I can still decide what Brighton’s game plan was, given that their display was so poor, and they showed no response to our attack.

Burnley on the other hand gave us exactly what we expected, certainly in the first half anyway. A dogged display that frustrated Watford and forced us to play exactly how they wanted us to, by attempting long balls that just didn’t pay off. Second half of course was a completely different story.

Watford will have to be smart if we’re to overcome the Eagles. Roy has been able to organise them since coming in last season and has made them tough to beat. In addition, the likes of Zaha, Townsend and Schlupp have bundles of pace and trickery that could cause a lot of problems for the Watford defence.

Palace will play to their strengths and look to use their pace on the counter-attack, something which Watford will need to be wary of when attacking. However, following our two victories so far this season I don’t see any reason why Watford can’t make it nine points from nine on Sunday.

The partnership of Deeney and Gray is already bearing fruit, with both strikers scoring last weekend and Deeney picking up an assist. They both look hungry and have already looked to have developed an understanding of how the other plays. It’s a shame we didn’t see it more last season, as on the odd occasion Watford played with two up top we looked threatening and as a result it lifted the crowd.

Add to that the talent of Will Hughes and Pereyra out wide (presuming Gracia names an unchanged XI, which I think he will), two players who have already scored this season and who Javi evidently wants to be in goal-scoring areas, Watford suddenly have a plethora of attacking options for Palace to contend with.

Palace will be missing one of their brightest young prospects too, right back Wan-Bissaka, on Sunday, after he was sent off against Liverpool for a last-man challenge on Salah. The highly-rated youngster has been raved about and has been tipped to be in Southgate’s plans for the England set up in the near future.

No game against Palace is easy, in fact they’ve had the better record since both sides began playing in the Premier League. However, if the Watford we saw in the second half against Burnley last week show up, I’m confident we can get a result.

You ‘Orns!