Roy Hodgson has spoken of his anger and disappointment after Watford made a string of mistakes in their embarrassing 5-1 defeat at home to Leicester City.

After a positive start in which Joao Pedro opened the scoring just five minutes in, the Hornets capitulated and gifted their opponents opportunities to freely find the net, as they set about putting their hosts to the sword.

Speaking after the match, the manager said it was the opposite of what he wanted to see from his players.

"It's the antithesis of what we were hoping for after the performance on Wednesday," said Hodgson. "I must say that at half time I didn't really see it coming. I didn't think we'd been particularly outplayed in the first half and I was a bit disappointed, or angry even, about the mistakes we'd made so that we were two goals to one down.

"But that was nothing like the disappointment and anger I felt after conceding the goal 30 odd seconds into the second half. Off our kickoff. And that really was a mistake that was easily avoidable, but it decided the game because at three goals to one, we had to pay even more risk if you like going forward.

"We changed the system anyway in the second half to try and give ourself a better chance of getting back in the game but after 30 seconds, suddenly it's 3-1 and they're still in a good position, and as a result, unfortunately punish one or two other mistakes we made to aggravate the score. So it's a very, very bad afternoon."

Reflecting on the season as a whole, Hodgson said that the club were perhaps guilty of being overly optimistic about what some of their better players were able to offer, after he was unable to prevent Watford's continued slide into the Championship.

In his programme notes ahead of the match, he wrote: "Perhaps I'm left to reflect that some of the players suggested to me as the ones who would resolve the club's parlous situation weren't, in fact, able to produce the performances that they'd been billed as being capable of."

Asked about these quotes, the manager said: "I think we've been given everything that we should be given," he said. "I think the club may have been slightly optimistic or overly optimistic with their view of some of the players who are here and who hadn't maybe played as many games as they could have played.

"Ismaila Sarr missed a lot of games and we only got him back after the African Nations Cup, so I think that the club was probably right to think, 'yeah, we've got some very good individual players here and with any luck, these are the players who will take us over the line'. But that's not been the case.

"But having said that, I don't feel myself that I was lured in any way or duped in any way. I've been allowed to do the job in the way that I think it should be done. I've been allowed to coach the players and pick the team as I wanted to coach and pick the team but unfortunately, I alongside Ray and alongside the players I've picked have failed, because we didn't we didn't do what the club wanted us to do."