{"id":944880,"date":"2026-10-24T20:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T20:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/944880\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T20:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T20:14:11","slug":"wolves-cut-gap-to-championship-top-two-with-win-over-watford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/944880\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves cut gap to Championship top two with win over Watford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prior to kick-off, both sides took a minute to remember Kenny Jackett <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cqj1z2wqkw2o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after his passing earlier in June.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former Wales international played his entire senior career at Watford and began his managerial career there in 1996 before later leading Wolves to a record-breaking promotion to the Championship in 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While the hosts came out positively, the Hornets gave their travelling supporters little to shout about and left the West Midlands having failed to manage a single on-target attempt on goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The optics of a single-goal defeat may seem creditable against a side who were in the Premier League last season, but in truth the margin of victory would have been greater but for Watford goalkeeper Federico Ravaglia making several impressive stops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This result, coupled with defeats for both Swansea City and West Ham, leaves Peixoto&#8217;s Wolves fourth in the table and now in touching distance of the top two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For Watford boss Dionisi, the relief of last week&#8217;s win over Charlton gave way to a  feeling all too familiar this season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They have now lost five of their last six and the Italian&#8217;s time in charge could be heading for a familiar outcome under the ownership of Gino Pozzo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prior to kick-off, both sides took a minute to remember Kenny Jackett after his passing earlier in June.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-944880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}