Watford manager Quique Sanchez Flores faced the media on Thursday (11th February), looking ahead to his side's English Premier League trip to Crystal Palace on Saturday (13th February).

SOUNDBITE: (English) Quique Sanchez Flores, Watford manager (on forthcoming opponents Crystal Palace):

"Yeah, we respect a lot Crystal Palace. We know how (good) is Crystal Palace. I love it, Crystal Palace in the first leg (in their first meeting this season). When (they) play against us in Vicarage Road. They are, now in the battleground like us, but they have a very good coach, they have very good players. We play away, so we respect a lot. We need to try to, to look for our best performance. But I think very quick we want to come back for a good run."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Quique Sanchez Flores, Watford manager (on remarks from former Watford players John Barnes that Troy Deeney should be in the England squad)

"I love it. I say it maybe one month ago, one-month-and-a-half, I say Deeney has all the conditions to go to the.... national team. He has power, he's clever, he's amazing, he understands it perfectly, 100 per cent very well the English football and this is amazing couple for.... every strikers. He can understand with (Odion) Ighalo, but he can understand with (Leicester City's Jamie) Vardy, he can understand with (Tottenham Hotspur's Harry) Kane, he's the kind of striker who can help.... all different kind of footballers."