After the disappointing defeat at Huddersfield Town it was encouraging to see Watford emphatically dismantle an, albeit very mediocre, Charlton Athletic side on Saturday.

Our loss in Yorkshire really reinforced to me how even the teams who seem to be meandering in the lower regions of this division do have the teeth to punish us – especially on their home soil.

Despite our impressive record against teams in the bottom half of the Championship we must show the class and ruthlessness you’d associate with a top Championship side. We must not be complacent.

Against Charlton, despite our need for a strong commanding centre back, we were able to keep a clean sheet after a shaky opening.

And our new strike partnership of Troy Deeney and Odion Ighalo demonstrated the clinical finishing that Charlton just couldn’t produce.

Deeney and Ighalo justified Slavisa Jokanovic’s decision to leave Matej Vydra out of the side. They scored three of Watford’s five goals and the Addicks defence was run ragged.

The pair have now netted four goals in four games. They look increasingly effective with every match they play together and that is why I believe Ighalo has overhauled Vydra as one of the first names on the team sheet.

After a promising start to the season Vydra has struggled to produce the form that initially made him a firm favourite with the Vicarage Road faithful.

The Czech Republic international hasn’t found the net in his last eleven games and has been visibly low on confidence in recent months. He is currently a shadow of the player that propelled Watford to the Championship Play-Off final in 2013.

Conversely Ighalo has come into the side and has brought the pace, trickery and goal-scoring touch which we’d usually expect from the aforementioned Vydra.

After picking up the man of the match award against Charlton it is safe to say the Nigerian striker has fully acclimatised to English football and has freshened up Watford’s attacking options.

In my opinion, Ighalo is a maverick forward. He brings unpredictability and at times completely bamboozles opposition defenders. I’m not sure he even knows sometimes exactly what he is going to do!

But he is now proving to be a revelation and is starting to show why the club decided to sign him on a permanent deal.

With his partnership alongside Deeney going from strength to strength, I feel dropping him for Vydra would be a huge error on Jokanovic’s part.

Looking ahead to our next two games against Blackpool and Bournemouth, our newest forward pairing have the ability to put us firmly back into the automatic promotion mix.