He’s been one of the players of Watford’s season so far, but Giorgi Chakvetadze needs to add more goals and assists to his game.

The Georgian international has been thrilling to watch and a menace to opponents, but a return of one goal and three assists in 13 appearances is something that has to be improved upon.

“He’s a player with immense quality, and he has qualities that are at a very high level: ball carrying, receiving skills, positional skills,” said Tom Cleverley.

“It’s just in and around the box that will take Giorgi to the next level and he’s got no ceiling if he does that.

“That’s down to me and the staff to work with him, and if we can get Giorgi how he is now but with double figures in terms of goals, and double figures assists, then we have got a serious player.

“It’s the area of his game that needs work on.”

For the second successive match on Saturday, Watford played without a recognised No.9 as Kwadwo Baah led the line.

“We’re not trying to reinvent the game, but with Baah in such good form you try and get as many of your in-form players on the pitch as possible,” explained Cleverley.

“I felt it worked well at Leeds but less well today.

“But it is an option for us to have those players in the middle of the pitch playing as well as Baah, who can have a bit of a free role across the top line.

“But then I thought Bayo came on and brought us a bit more structure and stability of framework.

“Then when Baah drops back and drifts wide he is massively effective.”

The pace and power of wing-back Festy Ebosele came to the fore against Blackburn.

“I wouldn’t tag our team as just a powerful team, but we’ve got some individuals who are exceptionally powerful,” said Cleverley.

“I thought Festy’s concentration levels were top today, he valued his defensive work, he beat his man when he needed to and he got man of the match.

“I’ve been really pleased with his two performances this week.”

It was, though, another game where the Hornets made a slower start than their opponents.

“That is where I’m learning about how to get into the psychology of the players and why sometimes we start slow,” Cleverley conceded.

“That was absolutely not the game plan for us to start slowly today.

“If anything I wanted us to be even more on the front foot, We wanted to be more aggressive than usual.”

The Hornets had a huge let-off when Blackburn’s Dominic Hyam hit the bar early on.

“We rode our luck in that instance, but I don’t think it was in the realms of them hammering down on our goal,” said Cleverley.

“I did think to myself that I wasn’t quite sure how that hadn’t gone in, it sort of defied the laws of physics.”