On A Night When Referee Mike Dean Celebrated His 100th Premier League Red Card Wolves Put A Huge Dent In United’s Chances of Making Top Four And Watford Relegate Fulham
By Marc Gingell
Highlights – Manager Comments – Player Ratings – Stats
Barclays Premier League Tuesday Results
| Vicarage Road | Watford | 4 | 1 | Fulham |
| ATT: 17,301 | Abdoulaye Doucouré 23′ | Ryan Babel 33′ | ||
| REF: R East | Will Hughes 63′ | |||
| Troy Deeney 69′ | ||||
| Kiko Femenía 75′ | ||||
| Molineux Stadium | Wolves | 2 | 1 | Man. Utd. |
| ATT: 31,302 | Diogo Jota 25′ | Scott McTominay 13′ | ||
| REF: M Dean | Chris Smalling 77′ og | Ashley Young s/o 57′ | ||
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Player Ratings
Watford: Foster (7), Femenia (6), Holebas (7), Cathcart (7), Mariappa (6), Capoue (7), Hughes (8), Doucoure (7), Pereyra (6), Deulofeu (6), Deeney (7).
Subs: Janmaat (6),Sema (n/a), Gray (8).
Fulham: Rico (7), Bryan (6), Christie (7), Ream (5), Le Marchand (5), Chambers (5), Anguissa (5), Cairney (6), Sessegnon (7), Babel (6), Mitrovic (6).
Subs: McDonald (n/a), Schurrle (n/a), Seri (6)
Man of the match: Will Hughes.
Opta Stats
- Fulham have lost each of their last nine league games, the second longest such run in their history, surpassed only by 11 straight defeats in 1961-62.
- This season’s relegation of Huddersfield and Fulham makes April 2nd the earliest date by which two clubs have been relegated in a single Premier League season.
- This is just the second occasion in which two clubs have been relegated from the Premier League with five or more games remaining, after 1994-95 (Ipswich and Leicester).
- Fulham are now winless in their last 19 away games in the Premier League (D2 L17) since beating Aston Villa in April 2014; this is the longest run in the division since Hull City went 26 away games without victory between March 2009 and August 2013.
- Ryan Babel has been directly involved in five league goals (three goals and two assists) for Fulham since making his debut in January, more than double that of any teammate.
- Fulham winger Ryan Sessegnon has assisted six Premier League goals; only four players have assisted more goals in the competition before turning 19: Francis Jeffers, Michael Owen (both 11), Cesc Fabregas (10) and Wayne Rooney (8).
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Player Ratings
Wolves: Patricio (6), Bennett (6), Coady (7), Boly (7), Doherty (6), Dendoncker (7), Neves (7), Moutinho (7), Vinagre (7), Jota (8), Jimenez (7)
Subs: Cavaleiro (N/A), Jonny (7)
Manchester United: De Gea (6), Young (3), Lindelof (5), Smalling (6), Shaw (6), McTominay (8), Fred (5), Pogba (5), Dalot (6), Lukaku (6), Lingard (6).
Subs: Martial (6), Jones (6)
Man of the match: Diogo Jota
Opta Stats
- Man Utd failed to win home or away against a promoted side in a single Premier League campaign for the first time since 2002-03 vs Man City.
- United have lost consecutive away games against Wolves in all competitions for the first time since August 1980.
- Following Young’s dismissal, Dean has now handed out 100 red cards in the Premier League, the most by a referee in the competition’s history. Both of Young’s red cards in the competition have been shown by Dean (also Jan 2009 for Aston Villa vs Sunderland).
- United have had more different goal scorers (exc. own-goals) than any other Premier League team this season (16).
- Jiménez has been directly involved in 19 Premier League goals this season (12 goals, 7 assists) – five more than any Wolves player has registered in a single season in the competition.
Barclays Premier League Table Update
| # | Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | PTS |
| 1 | Liverpool | 32 | 24 | 7 | 1 | 72 | 19 | 53 | 79 |
| 2 | Manchester City | 31 | 25 | 2 | 4 | 81 | 21 | 60 | 77 |
| 3 | Arsenal | 31 | 19 | 6 | 6 | 65 | 39 | 26 | 63 |
| 4 | Tottenham Hotspur | 31 | 20 | 1 | 10 | 58 | 34 | 24 | 61 |
| 5 | Manchester United | 32 | 18 | 7 | 7 | 61 | 43 | 18 | 61 |
| 6 | Chelsea | 31 | 18 | 6 | 7 | 52 | 34 | 18 | 60 |
| 7 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 32 | 13 | 8 | 11 | 40 | 39 | 1 | 47 |
| 8 | Watford | 32 | 13 | 7 | 12 | 47 | 47 | 0 | 46 |
| 9 | Leicester City | 32 | 13 | 5 | 14 | 42 | 43 | -1 | 44 |
| 10 | Everton | 32 | 12 | 7 | 13 | 45 | 42 | 3 | 43 |
| 11 | West Ham United | 32 | 12 | 6 | 14 | 41 | 48 | -7 | 42 |
| 12 | Bournemouth | 32 | 11 | 5 | 16 | 43 | 58 | -15 | 38 |
| 13 | Crystal Palace | 31 | 10 | 6 | 15 | 38 | 41 | -3 | 36 |
| 14 | Newcastle United | 32 | 9 | 8 | 15 | 31 | 42 | -11 | 35 |
| 15 | Brighton and Hove Albion | 30 | 9 | 6 | 15 | 32 | 43 | -11 | 33 |
| 16 | Southampton | 31 | 8 | 9 | 14 | 35 | 50 | -15 | 33 |
| 17 | Burnley | 32 | 9 | 6 | 17 | 37 | 59 | -22 | 33 |
| 18 | Cardiff City | 31 | 8 | 4 | 19 | 28 | 59 | -31 | 28 |
| 19 | Fulham | 33 | 4 | 5 | 24 | 30 | 76 | -46 | 17 |
| 20 | Huddersfield Town | 32 | 3 | 5 | 24 | 18 | 59 | -41 | 14 |
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