'I bodied him a few times' - Troy Deeney and Jermaine Defoe hammer former Liverpool defenders in brutal review
Ex-Watford striker Troy Deeney has claimed Martin Skrtel and Mamadou Sakho had no answer to his physicality during their Premier League head-to-heads.
Deeney faced off against the Reds a total of nine times during his 11-year spell with the Hornets, winning two of these tussles, and took on the partnership of Sakho and Skrtel in his first-ever top-flight meeting with Liverpool in December 2015.
This was a match Watford won 3-0 at Vicarage Road courtesy of goals from Nathan Ake and Odion Ighalo (2), on what was a poor day for Jurgen Klopp's backline. It is safe to say Deeney has fond memories of this afternoon and has revealed his plan was to always aggravate whoever he was looking to get the better of.
Insistent he came out on top against both players, the now Forest Green Rovers forward found Skrtel the easier of the two to handle and believed the Slovakian "crumbled" in such circumstances.
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In conversation with Jermaine Defoe on the 'Football Firsts' podcast, Deeney first said of Sakho: "He's a nice guy, but my game is physical so I'm not letting you do anything - not with that stupid haircut. I bodied him a few times. We had loads of back-and-forths.
"Skrtel was the one who crumbled the most," he added. "We played Liverpool at home [in 2015] and ended up beating them 3-0. I've gone to the boys, 'Put it high'. I have jumped and timed it well, I've won the header, elbowed him and he's like 'Oh, bro. Come on!' I was like 'I've got you'. After about 35 minutes he came off and I just beat him up, physically."
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