Richarlison is 'a great talent', says Watford boss Marco Silva
Saturday 19 August 2017 19:59, UK
Watford manager Marco Silva praised the contribution of Richarlison after the Brazilian marked his full debut for the club by opening the scoring in his side's 2-0 win at Bournemouth on Saturday.
Richarlison, signed from Fluminense for £13m in August, made the breakthrough after 73 minutes to cap off a fine individual display on what was the player's first competitive start for the Hornets.
"He is one player I know very well and analysed a lot during the last month and of course, he is a boy of 20 years old who does not speak a lot of English," said Silva after the game.
"It is the moment to start learning everything, a different idea of football, but he is a great talent and we believe in him.
"But it is important that we are calm with him as well, it is important not to put too much pressure on the boy, leave him. He comes to work hard every day, and that is most important.
"And after if you have talent, everything is more easy."
The visitors' win was sealed late on by substitute Etienne Capoue's long-range strike and Silva wants all his players to be ready to make an impact if called upon from the bench this season.
"A very, very good goal," he said. "But what I want, not only from Capoue, but everybody coming from the bench to start inside the pitch, like the last week with everybody inside the pitch they really help the team.
"And today again, like Capoue and like the others in the pitch, and this is the most important for a coach when you feel everybody is involved in the match.
"Even the players, and it is normal on the bench not to be happy, but this is the way to show to me they want to play and this is really important."
Overall, however, the Portuguese - who only took charge at Vicarage Road this summer - was delighted with Watford's win, their first on the road in the league since January.
"That is not important," said Silva. "What is important to us is we got three important points today. It is not because it is away, or at home, it is an important three points for us.
"Of course it is fantastic if you can win away in the Premier League, as it is really difficult to do that, and we showed this football and commitment and this is most important to me.
"Because if you play like we did today, with this level of organisation, the players believe in our football and idea and we are close to take good results."
