Odion Ighalo – who set a new club record by netting in a fifth straight Premier League match at Chelsea – and Troy Deeney have scored 19 goals between them so far this season, but Flores has been delighted by their role in keeping things tight
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The 28-year-old told the club’s official website: “I am not surprised Odion Ighalo is doing what he is doing. I have chatted with him and played with him in the national team and I can see the talent he has, and even before I have the ball in those games he is already making his run
Igha-goals, as he is fondly referred to, is joined by Chelsea’s Oscar, Alex Tettey (Norwich City), Andrew Surman (Bournemouth) and Mesut Ozil (Arsenal)
The Nigerian striker scored twice as Watford recorded an impressive 3-0 home win over out-of-form Liverpool at Vicarage Road on Sunday – a fourth consecutive top-flight victory, which put them within one point of the top four
Meanwhile, both Sunderland and Watford have two wins in their last three outings, but sit at opposite ends of the table, with the newly-promoted Hornets in the top half, while the home side sit in the relegation zone
Ighalo, who scored his ninth goal of the season in their 2-0 win over Norwich at the weekend, was named alongside Leicester City and EPL leading scorer, Jamie Vardy, and Xherdan Shaqiri
The hosts, the only top-flight side without a home win all season, looked the more nervous early on and Watford spurned the first chance of the game after only three minutes when former Villa academy player, Troy Deeney, fired a first-time strike over the bar from Odion Ighalo’s lay-off
Leicester’s best chance of the first half fell the way of Vardy, but the forward couldn’t beat Heurelho Gomes, who got down low to push his strike from the edge of the box away to safety
The 26-year-old joined the Hornets from Udinese last summer and played an integral part in the club’s push for promotion from the Championship by notching 20 goals in 35 appearances
Claudio Ranieri’s Leicester City side have been one of the surprise packages in the top flight so far this season, with their come-from-behind 3-2 win over West Bromwich Albion leaving them third in the table – a point clear of Manchester United
Watford striker, Odion Ighalo, says he will get even better after scoring a goal on his Premier League debut…
The contest was watched by a crowd of nearly 20,000 packed inside The Vic, and the Nigerian is adamant that same level of support for the remaining five matches is crucial if the Golden Boys are to achieve promotion
Marco Motta was then dismissed for hauling down Derby winger, Jonny Russell, with Darren Bent dispatching the resultant penalty kick to draw the sides level just before half time