It was a tight game but we deserved to win.”The Walsall manager Ray Graydon said, “It wasn’t pretty for either side It was a real fight, a scrap. We became another Albion statistic – it’s another 1-0 victory for them and I’m sure they will be delighted with it But we didn’t cause enough problems for their keeper. We were more difficult to play against and that is the one positive thing I can take out of the game.”Goal: Roberts (41) 1-0.West Brom: Hoult, Sigurdsson, Gilchrist, Moore, Balis, Jordao (Adam Chambers 88), McInnes, Johnson, Clement, Dichio (Dobie 71), Roberts (Taylor 90). Substitutes: not used: Jensen, Fox.Bookings: Jordao, Dichio, Roberts.Walsall: Walker, Carbon, Holdsworth, Roper, Gadsby, Biancalani, Bennett, Andre (Leitao 69), Aranalde, Wrack, Angell (Herivelto 75). Substitues not used: Harper, Brightwell, Keates.Booking: Andre, Roper.Referee: M Brandwood (Lichfield).Attendance: 20,290.Man of the match: Roberts (West Brom)..

Millwall stretched their unbeaten run to nine matches at Carrow Road, but missed a chance to improve their position still further against a side who played the second half with 10 men. The Norwich manager Nigel Worthington said, “I’ve seen it on video and it’s a pathetic sending-off Darel Russell has been done by two Millwall players. The lad’s shoved his arm out to push them away and the referee’s caught that and sent him off.”Worthington’s side battled superbly and might have even taken three points had the goalkeeper Tony Warner not produced a reaction save to keep out a header from Alex Notman.Chances were few and far between, although it was the visitors who carved out the better openings in a desperately disappointing first half. A 25-yard shot from the left-back Robbie Ryan tested goalkeeper Paul Crichton on his Norwich debut, while the veteran Steve Claridge miskicked after a deflection fell kindly to him in the box.Norwich offered no threat at the other end and it looked as though they were in for a testing afternoon when the midfielder Russell was harshly dismissed by Andrew Hall after the slightest contact with Bircham. But the Canaries more than held their own after the break and it was frequently difficult to work out which side were down to 10 men.Again opportunities were scarce, but Norwich created the best of the whole match on 72 minutes when Gary Holt picked the ball up in midfield and spread it wide to Steen Nedergaard. The Dane’s cross from a tight position was accurate, but Notman’s header was straight at Warner and the former Liverpool trainee reacted quickly to tip it over the bar.Norwich: Crichton, Kenton, Mackay, Fleming, Drury, Nedergaard, Holt, Russell, McVeigh (Sutch, 81), Notman (Llewellyn, 82), Nielsen (Libbra, 82). Substitutes not used: Green, Rivers.Millwall: Warner, Lawrence, Nethercott, Dyche, Ryan (Ward, 90), Reid, Bircham, Livermore, Bull (Ifill, 52), Claridge, Harris.

Substitutes not used: Gueret, Green, Odunsi.Referee: A Hall (Birmingham).Booked: Norwich: Nedergaard, Fleming; Millwall: Livermore, Ryan, Bircham.Sent Off: Norwich: Russell (42).Attendance: 18,969. Kevin Keegan has said that his team are playing too many televised games this season. To back that claim up, his Manchester City side proceeded to put on a suitably camera-shy showing at Vicarage Road last night, especially in the second half, yet they still left Hertfordshire with all three points. With 80 minutes gone, and City seemingly happy with a point, the Icelandic striker received the ball in his own box and, under no pressure, directed a back-pass with unerring precision inside his own post.That gift means City now lead Division One by three points, but was hard on Watford, who needed a win to give themselves any chance of getting back up the table and closer to the play-off places. As it is, Gianluca Vialli’s first season in charge of the Hornets looks like ending in mid-table disappointment.The same cannot be said of Keegan. Appointed as manager of City last summer, the kind of luck he enjoyed here, and which notably deserted him in his last matches in charge of England, looks like helping the light blue half of Manchester back to the Premiership at the first attempt.Not that Keegan is taking anything for granted. He said later: “We’ve got a three-point lead at the top but that’s not breathing space.

We’ve got breathing space when we’re four points ahead with a game to spare.”While Helguson was able to beat Alec Chamberlain, for long stretches the Watford goalkeeper kept City at bay almost single-handedly. And when Watford took the lead in the 26th minute later it looked like Vialli was going to emerge with their first victory of the year.With their first meaningful attack on goal, Helguson, on for the injured Neil Cox, held the ball up long enough for Tommy Smith to join him, and the young striker swept the ball in.City came straight back as Paolo Wanchope finished from Shaun Goater’s knock-down. Then Helguson intervened again and Keegan said: “I’m glad Helguson then scored for us because we could have played another 45 minutes without scoring. Watford had a hard-luck story.”Yet Vialli was upbeat about his teams chances of still making the play-offs as he said: “With 17 games remaining we can still get 91 points and that will be enough for the play-offs at least.”Goals: Smith (26) 1-0; Wanchope (30) 1-1; Helguson (80, og) 1-2.Watford (3-4-1-2): Chamberlain; Galli (Noble, 87), Vega, Cox (Helguson, 16); Glass (Noel-Williams, 90), Okon, Hyde, Doyley; Nielsen; Smith, Pennant. Substitutes not used: Baardsen, Hand.Manchester City (3-5-2): Nash; Pearce, Dunne, Wiekens; Tiatto, Benarbia (Jensen, 82), Berkovic, Horlock, Wright-Phillips; Goater (Huckerby, 89), Wanchope. Substitutes not used: Weaver, Ritchie, Killen.Booked: Watford: Glass; Manchester City: Horlock.Referee: D Gallagher (Oxon).Man of the Match: Wright-Phillips.Attendance: 17,724.