Nathaniel Chalobah insists Watford need to be more clinical after they drew a blank in their defeat away at Reading.

The Hornets created plenty of opportunities, particularly during the first-half, but were unable to work the Royals' goalkeeper Raphael.

Head coach Vladimir Ivic said his side needed to make better final decisions in the final third, while Chalobah thought more work was required.

“We had some chances in the first half but in the Championship, as everyone knows, if you don’t put your chances away it can come and bite you,” the midfielder told the club website.

“We should have been a little bit more clinical, and their goal was a scrappy goal. At the end of the day we’ve got to work a little bit more on the attacking side of things.

“We hit the post, we had two clear chances, but I think today we didn’t make their goalkeeper work enough.”

Despite the result, Chalobah felt Watford were the better of the two sides, but that they were undone by a stroke of bad luck.

The former Chelsea man hopes that the good mood around the training ground will help them get back on track soon enough.

“It was one of those where something was coming for them and it was just a matter of they had one chance and they took it in a very scrappy way,” he said.

“At that point we’re feeling a bit hard done by, because I’m sure if we’d put our chances away, we’d have killed the game off.

“I’m disappointed, I’m sure all the lads are disappointed because we’ve got a good group of boys at the minute. The camaraderie is good and everyone’s positive and the vibe at the training ground is good.

“We’re going to be disappointed after that defeat because we don’t feel as if Reading were better than us, but we just weren’t clinical today and luck wasn’t on our side at the end of the day.”