Ince sent a cushioned volley from a fine diagonal cross by Giorgi Chakvetadze into the bottom corner after nine minutes.<\/p>\n
He then swept home at the second attempt after being found by Othmane Maamma as half-time approached before completing his first Championship hat-trick since netting one for Derby in December 2015 with a rasping left-foot shot.<\/p>\n
Gracia said: \u201cI am delighted for Tom because all the players deserve their reward of scoring goals.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a high-quality player.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe can play on the left or the right, can play on both sides and he\u2019s always involved in the planning of the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we need to defend more on one side, he is always ready to do that job and he\u2019s an example for all the players.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ince has expressed his intention to follow father Paul in taking his coaching badges, but Gracia is grateful to have him as a player for now.<\/p>\n
Gracia added: \u201cThey were all different goals because Tom is able to do that. He has the quality to do it.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe scored three goals today but I know that tomorrow he will be the first one in the training session preparing the next game. He will accept it if he is in the team or on the bench and we need this kind of behaviour.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the characteristics that he has, he can be a coach in the future because he understands the different moments of the game and he knows why we do this or why we do that.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I suppose he will want to play a long career and I hope that he enjoys that first.\u201d<\/p>\n
Watford\u2019s win was their fourth successive victory over the festive period. They have collected 17 points from a possible 21 since losing the reverse fixture at St Andrew\u2019s on December 1.<\/p>\n
While Gracia is enjoying the holiday period, Birmingham manager Chris Davies is experiencing a troubling run of seven games without a win that has seen his side slip into the bottom half of the Championship table.<\/p>\n
Davies said: \u201cIt was very disappointing. We were nowhere near the level required to win a football match. We didn\u2019t defend well enough\u00a0at all in the first half and we\u00a0conceded soft goals.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we got into their box, it kind of fizzled out. We put ourselves in a really difficult position against a good team when we are playing away from home.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve had games\u00a0recently where\u00a0we\u2019ve narrowly\u00a0lost or where we\u2019ve\u00a0drawn when we deserved to win a match but on this occasion, we didn\u2019t deserve anything from the match.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was well short of the level you expect from a Birmingham City team.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the second half, we needed energy\u00a0and a reaction, with fighting spirit to get back into the game but we couldn\u2019t force anything.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were missing some important players through\u00a0injury and suspension, no doubt\u00a0about that, but I still expect\u00a0more than we saw today.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were second best. Everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong and I feel for the travelling fans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ince sent a cushioned volley from a fine diagonal cross by Giorgi Chakvetadze into the bottom corner after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-670389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115829185098072569","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}