By Akeem Lawal
Super Eagles defender, William Troost-Ekong wants to become the highest goal scoring defender at Watford this season.
The Nigeria international, who has a goal to his name since arriving England from Italian side Udinese in September, was rock solid in defence as the Hornets recorded a 1-0 win over Barnsley in the Championship game on Tuesday.
Watford had chances to put the game to bed, especially Troost-Ekong, who turned a Philip Zinckernagel cross wide from six yards, and the Nigerian joked in a post-match interview with Hive Live that he was disappointed not to pull clear of his fellow defender in the goalscoring ranks.
“Everyone wants to contribute and I think I should’ve done better with my chance, so that’s going to be haunting me tonight but hopefully soon enough I’ll get another goal,” said Troost-Ekong.
“I’m trying to get more goals than Kaba so that was definitely the aim! We’ve got some good competition going with the defenders so I was disappointed about that.
“We’ve got midfielders scoring goals though, like in the last game, we’re creating a lot of opportunities and we’re not giving many away.”
The 27-year-old believes the lessons learned from their October defeat at Oakwell helped the Hornets over the line during Tuesday’s win over Barnsley.
“We were better prepared this time. We had to try and get revenge after what happened when we played them away.
“They played real Championship football, it was a real battle tonight but we did well to try and get the ball onto the ground and play as much as possible.
“We knew this was going to be a massive week, we wanted to get as many points as we can to attack the top again and we did what we needed to do in the last two games at home.”
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