Watford boss Nigel Pearson was left frustrated after their 1-0 defeat at Crystal Palace.

The Hornets had started promisingly, but indecision saw early opportunities go to waste before Jordan Ayew capitalised on the visitors' failure to close him down quickly enough by curling home from the edge of the penalty area.

Pearson reflected: “I think we played pretty well. [It was] a missed opportunity today in some ways because of our inability to be decisive in front of goal. We had chances in the first half, in particular, to go ahead and I thought the goal that we conceded was one we could have done better with in terms of blocking the shot.

“Today is a bit of a missed opportunity to pick up more points because I think we did enough in terms of performance to come away with at least a point and possibly we should have won it as well, but you've got to take your chances, that's the bottom line."