Defiant Ryan Porteous already reckons the English Championship is a better standard than Scotland's top-flight.
Porteous left Hibs for a new start during the January transfer window as he penned a four-and-a-half-year deal with Watford and he marked his Hornets debut with a goal during Saturday's trip to Reading. The Scotland international got on the end of Matheus Martins corner in trademark style to put his side 2-0 up shortly after half-time before Tom Ince and Jeff Hendrick hit back for the Royals to ensure the spoils were shared.
And the 23-year-old believes the quality on show elapsed what he was used to in the Scottish Premiership. Reacting to his near-perfect debut, Porteous said: "It was good. I think the tempo is pretty similar to Scotland. I think the quality is a lot better. I enjoyed it. It's end-to-end stuff. As I said, it's pretty similar to what I've been used to so hopefully I can gel in quite nice.
"I like to vary my runs in the box, sometimes go back and sometimes go front. The object in this game was to get across my man and it was a great ball into the box and luckily enough it it hit the back of the net."
Porteous admits the only dampener to his Watford debut was the fact they didn't leave Berkshire with all three points as he slammed the manner of the goals given away given how comfortable his side looked in the first half.
He continued: "It's disappointing to throw away a 2-0 lead especially with the way the first half went. I think we controlled the majority of it and I don't think we actually played our best.
"So the message from the manager at half-time was well done for being up bit don't accept that, go out and get more. We started the second half but you can't concede two goals and especially in that manner."
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