Sunday 8 February 2015 17:10, UK
Slavisa Jokanovic hailed Watford's fighting spirit after they beat Blackburn Rovers 1-0 to keep their promotion push on track.
The Hornets head coach acknowledged the contribution of goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes, who made some top-class saves to keep Blackburn at bay, but was keen to focus on the way his team stuck together when the game was not going their way before Odion Ighalo struck late on to secure the win.
"Heurelho's done his job as part of the team," said Jokanovic.
"He made some spectacular saves but this is part of his job. He helped us so much today in this game - this too is part of his job - and Ighalo scored the goal and other people participated in the game today.
"I understand (people wanting to praise Gomes' display) but for me it's more important how we resolved many problems that we had today, especially without so much quality.
"We are fighting, we are now suffering altogether. We know if we arrive at the end of the game with a clean sheet and we can make a chance we can win the game.
"My team didn't play a brilliant game, we had many difficulties and we didn't play the game Blackburn played today.
"They didn't surprise us but we were strong enough to resolve these (problems) and were bonded (together) and at the end we had the chance to win this game."
Rovers boss Gary Bowyer felt his side "were the better team by far" but acknowledged they had not been clinical enough, although he believes the performance gives his side a good platform to push on for the rest of the season.
He said: "It is explainable in the sense we didn't take our chances, we weren't ruthless enough with that and we didn't defend the scruffy corner well enough.
"Overall, performance-wise, we were by far the better team and what it does do is it gives us, if you take the emotion out of it, the confidence that we're not going to be too far away.
"A lot of people talk about the gap, the points, but if we perform like that from now until the end of the season we'll be very close."
Asked about Gomes' contribution, the Blackburn boss said: "He made one outstanding save from the free-kick in the first half but in the second half we created chances where we should have taken them."
Bowyer again opted to start Chris Brown in attack, even though Rudy Gestede was available.
The Blackburn manager explained: "He'd been injured, he missed the week before but I thought Chris Brown was outstanding and caused them all kinds of problems as well.
"Then we made the change and Rudy continued that. We probably didn't get enough balls in the box to him, if there was one thing to look at in the second half."
