Still felt Watford did enough to win after Baah impact.

Ed Still, Watford’s head coach, felt his team did enough to win a 2-2 draw at Preston after Kwadwo Baah came on as a substitute.

The Hornets trailed 1-0 following a first half characterised as “not terrible, not great” before stepping up significantly after the interval.

Othmane Maamma levelled things up before the remarkable Baah played a pivotal role in their second, setting up what was later ruled an own goal.

Preston pushed the game back to 2-2, but Watford appeared far more likely to win, leaving Still happy.

He stated, “The first half wasn’t so bad – it wasn’t terrible, it wasn’t great. It’s a shame we had that one moment where we switched off because apart from that they didn’t have much.” However, he hopes the team gained confidence from the second half.

“With the speed and tempo that we brought to the game, we put them under a lot of pressure.” We’ve generated enough opportunities to win that.

We wanted to try to stretch the opposition a little more in the second half, something we had done all week but failed to accomplish in the first.

“You can see in the first five or six minutes that we played a couple of balls short into midfield, which is not what we wanted to do on this pitch. The pitch was quite challenging.

That was the message at halftime, and it’s why we needed Baah on the pitch.”

Still stressed to Chakvetadze at halftime that he wanted more pace and threat in behind, bringing in Baah to great success in the second half.

The winger has played far less than expected this season, with both Paulo Pezzolano and Javi Gracia believing he did not do enough tactically, but he has demonstrated why fans want to see much more of him at Deepdale. Still stated:

“We had to stretch them. “Once we accomplished that, we were able to open up space in midfield and have greater control over the game. “Louza got on the ball more, and Maamma a little more.

“Baah gets things done. All of us – his teammates, coaches – must go into his head and get that from him every week, on the practice pitch and in games.

“We’ve also got [Nestory] Irankunda coming back next week, so I’ve got to work out how I can get 14 or 15 players on the pitch.” “I told Giorgi that it’s not nice to take players off, and it wasn’t a question of hooking him because he was bad.”

“We were on the bench trying to make the best call for the team and felt we had the space to open this up, but it wasn’t happening because of the profiles we chose.

To be able to turn it around and count on Kwadwo to come off the bench is really good for the team.”

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