Having let Sergio Aguero leave on a free transfer and having failed to land Harry Kane, Pep Guardiola was braced not just for having to go a whole season а without a No.9 but also the questions and verdicts that would inevitably come whenever they failed to score or take their chances.
Against Watford so many went begging. Jack Grealish alone could have had four in the first half, Watford cleared one off the line and their goalkeeper Daniel Bachmann made several good saves. Yet the result was never in doubt from the fourth minute, meaning that any inquests over City's lack of firepower up front were again redundant.
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