MARLON King was picked out by Watford boss Aidy Boothroyd for special praise at Queens Park Rangers today, as the Hornets toiled to gain a valuable point in the west London sun.

Speaking of the fans' favourite King, the manager said: "I thought Marlon King was terrific today, his contribution was absolutely outstanding.

"If leaving him out against Cardiff did the trick then I'm delighted as he was stupendous today. The work that he did, the way he pulled other people around and but for Lee Camp's acrobatics he could have had two or three goals."

Moments after the scoring draw at Loftus Road Boothroyd then gave this reaction to his sides' point: "It was tough, an entertaining game for the neutral and it could have been 4-3 at half-time.

"To be honest though I'm disappointed, we thought we had enough to get something more from the game, the chances were there but we didn't capitalise upon them and we gave away silly fouls and too much of the ball to them, too often.

"That's what you get, you draw games when you don't do what you've got to."

Despite the low scoring nature of the fixture both sides had opportunity to bag a hat full of goals, which Boothroyd was only too aware of.

"It was a very open game. For me the most important thing when you are attacking is that you get your defending right and we didn't do that today.

"We were counter-attacked far too often today on our own attacks, but there you go. We are going to have games like that this year when don't perform at our best at the end of a very, very long week."

That week has seen wins over Southampton and Cardiff and added to today's draw Boothroyd concluded that it hadn't been a bad week after all's said and done.

"Of course it's not a bad week, we just want to win. The thing I have said all along is that if we're at it, all eleven of us every game, then there will be very few teams if any that can live with us in this league.

"We're disappointed we've not got more out of it but fair play to QPR, they could have won the game easily as well."

Having seen Rangers drop to ten men in the closing stages Boothroyd was also frustrated to see his change in tactics fail to pay dividends.

"Playing against ten men you should take advantage of it, but we know how to deal with it, we know what to do, but we still got counter-attacked.

"We went for the game and went to win it by playing 2-4-4 and shoved bid Dan [Shittu] up to try and get the winner, today it just didn't happen."

Watford added another scorer to their seasonal list in the shape of loanee Adam Johnson and Boothroyd was pleased to see another fresh face notching.

"The more people we can get scoring the better, as long as we are scoring and not relying on one person."

Finally Boothroyd confirmed that defender Jay DeMerit was taken off as a precautionary measure following injury in midweek against Cardiff.

"He took a very nasty blow to the calf, a six-studded present from Wales. He was struggling to make the game but got through bit because that's the type of guy he is.

"He just started to cramp up in the second half when he came out early so I thought it best not to risk him as we need him fit for a longer period."