Watford beat Crawley Town 1-0 at Vicarage Road in this English League Cup second-round tie. Marc Bola settled it with the game's only goal in the 98th minute, in front of an attendance of 6,907.
Watford dominated the underlying numbers, holding 60.9% of possession to Crawley's 39.1% and finishing with 36 attempts on goal to the visitors' nine, 11 of them on target against three; Watford also won the corner count 12-1. Five yellow cards were shown in all: Watford's Edoardo Bove (23rd minute, foul) and Iker Bravo (62nd minute, dissent), and Crawley's Charlie Barker (61st minute), Kellan Gordon (66th minute) and Oluwalopemiwa Aderoju (96th minute), all for fouls. There were no red cards.
Watford made five substitutions: Amin Nabizada replaced Kwadwo Baah in the 45th minute, before Edo Kayembe and Mamadou Doumbia both came on in the 67th minute, Martín Payero in the 68th, and Rocco Vata for the injured Othmane Maamma in the 76th. Crawley also used five: Oluwalopemiwa Aderoju replaced the injured Gianmarco Di Biase in the 55th minute, Osman Kamara came on in the 63rd, and Pele Arganese-McDermott, Omari Mrisho and Johnny Russell were all introduced in the 75th minute.