Watford manager Walter Mazzari has blasted the attitude of his Watford team after they were knocked out of the EFL Cup by third-tier Gillingham on Wednesday morning (AEST).
The Hornets took the lead through Odion Ighalo in the 57th minute before Mark Byrne scored against the run of play to send the game into extra time.
Bradley Dack then went from villain to hero, scoring the winner in extra time having missed a penalty earlier in the match.
The result left Watford winless so far this season having drawn one and lost one and the Italian manager admitted he needed to shift his team’s mentality.
“I am massively disappointed, especially for the fans, who don’t deserve to see us losing like that. They are very warm and they didn’t deserve that performance,” he said.
“I need to change this mentality of the players when we go ahead. I’m very angry because we can’t see the danger of teams when we go ahead. “
“The moment we go ahead we should continue to play well but we couldn’t see the danger and got complacent.”
“Instead of becoming stronger and working harder we changed our attitude completely. I don’t think I made too many changes, we were creating chances regardless.
“The players are fit enough. Even though all players get tired in extra time perhaps they were mentally tired a bit. We just need to work on our mentality when we go ahead.”
Watford will attempt to change its fortunes against Arsenal in the Premier League on the weekend.
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