"Does worry me" - Tom Cleverley reveals big Watford FC concern | OneFootball

The Hornets boss has been speaking on a key issue for his side in recent weeks that has him worried.

Tom Cleverley has admitted that Watford's home form at Vicarage Road this season is worrying him.

The Hornets' Championship play-off push took a further hit on Saturday, as Alex Neil's Millwall inflicted a 2-1 defeat at Watford's historic home ground.

It leaves Cleverley's side six points adrift of sixth-placed West Brom ahead of Tuesday night's next round of second tier fixtures, with just nine games remaining this season.

"Story of our season" - Watford boss Tom Cleverley admits home form is concerning him

Speaking via the Watford Observer, Cleverley has confessed that Watford's form at Vicarage Road this season is worrying him, whilst reaffirming that a successful season is built upon the foundations of solid home form.

The Hornets have now lost six of the last seven league games at home, and when asked whether that worries him, he said: “Yeah it does.

“How many goals you concede and how good your home form is are the basics for a successful season. It’s been the story of our season: we’ve not been able to be complete.

“When the home form was really good, the away form suffered. When the defensive record gets sorted out, the home form suffers and we look like we’re struggling to score a little bit.

“We are really close to finding the perfect balance, but the home form does worry me a little bit.”

Cleverley and Watford have some favourable upcoming opportunities to arrest Vicarage Road slump

Vicarage Road hasn't been the fortress it once was earlier this season in recent weeks.

Opposition sides are now turning up at the home of the Hornets unafraid of being stung, and if Cleverley's side want to make a late dart for the play-off places, then that has to change.

However, they would appear to have an ideal opportunity to do just that in the coming weeks. Swansea City will be Watford's final home game before the international break, with the Swans having all but secured their place in the Championship for next season, a top-half finish would appear to be their target for the remainder of the campaign.

After the second tier resumes at the end of the month, relegation favourites Plymouth Argyle will travel to Vicarage Road on 29 March, with a meeting against another relegation-threatened side in Hull City to follow after that.

A clash with promotion-chasing Burnley will be Watford's penultimate home game of the campaign, before they end the season on 3 May at home to Sheffield Wednesday.

So, with a trio of highly winnable home games to come for the Hornets, Cleverley's team look to have been handed an ideal chance to arrest their home form, and perhaps give themselves a fighting chance of sneaking into the top six.