The stats from Wednesday’s win at Cardiff showed Watford had 16 attempts on goal, five of which were on target.

However, after the game Slaven Bilic said he could not remember a clear-cut chance and reflecting on the game, he’s right.

The Hornets had lots of the ball inside Cardiff’s half – and it was the same at Wigan a few days earlier – but their end product in terms of forcing the keeper into saves was low.

How does Bilic help his players turn those goal attempts into better opportunities, which in turn should lead to more goals, more wins and more points?

“In the final third you can’t really have patterns,” he said.

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“You can ask players to be in certain places and you can encourage them to try to get the ball facing the opponents’ goal. You can try to cover all the positions in and around the box.

“But it is a question of quality. There is an old saying: 'Defence you work for, goals you buy.'

“We attack with numbers, with six or seven players, and that will leave open spaces behind you, so it can be quite risky.

“But we have the quality and if we are attacking in numbers then we should really create more quality chances.

“We’re talking about the last two games of course, because against Luton and Norwich we did create plenty.

“But in the last two games, the number of really good chances we created was too low, and it was the area of our performance that I wasn’t delighted about.”

What the Hornets lacked in clear-cut chances from open play at Cardiff, they more than made up for with two headed goals from corners – something which feels like Watford fans have seen less often than Halley’s Comet.

“You want corners to be precise but also more like free kicks,” said Bilic.

“And you have to have that quality of delivery within the team.

“Louza was taking them in a different way, more precision and crafty. Sema’s delivery is with great pace.

“When we lost Imran we knew that Sema had good delivery, and being left footed is always a little bit special.

“In training sessions we could see his corners were good, so I encouraged him to do it in games. To be fair, with the exception of a couple in the game the other night which fell a bit short, they were really good.

“Also we want to mix it up and do some short corners. If the opponent spots that and brings a couple of players out to defend then you can’t play it short. But at least you have pulled two of their players out of the box and that means there are less of them to defend the ball when it comes in.

“The delivery at Cardiff was good, and that is key. Good delivery is important generally in a game, not just from set pieces but also from open play.”