Watford are bottom of the league after taking nine points from their first 17 games. "There's no point in me trying to paint a picture that's not realistic," Pearson said at Thursday's press conference. Clearly the more games that you play that you don't win then it becomes harder. Pearson is confident the players are up to the task of staying in the Premier League. "That's never easy to achieve, but certainly we're aware of... the statistics don't paint a false picture in terms of our season.

Source: Sky sports December 19, 2019 19:52 UTC