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Raul Jimenez left Vicarage Road with a very clear message for Watford and their captain Troy Deeney: “I have my revenge.”

The 17th goal of Jimenez’s remarkable first season in England opened the scoring in Hertfordshire before Diogo Jota sealed Wolves’ 2-1 win with a well-placed volley late on.

Despite Jota’s brilliance, this game was always going to centre around Jimenez with hundreds of Wolves fans donning wrestling masks in support of their No.9 after Deeney’s outburst at Wembley earlier this month.

Deeney, who was suspended for the latest meeting, said: "I’m glad he put that mask on – he could wear it out now as well, now he’s a loser. So, enjoy the mask – we got the victory.”

He also dedicated 277 words of his pre-match programme notes to Wolves and the Mexican No.9 - but it was Jimenez who had the last laugh.

“I was in the right place to score that goal,” said Jimenez. “I had one chance but I have my revenge and I score.

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“Did I read his programme notes? Yes, I also read that they put that I’m 32-years-old - and I’m not! I like to read them before the matches and it’s OK.

“I heard all the interviews that he did. I hear everything that he said and it’s fair, I have no problem with it. This is football, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose and you have to be happy with that.”

Jimenez celebrated his latest strike against Watford by pointing to the name on the back of his shirt, but that wasn’t the celebration he’d planned.

The 27-year-old intended to whip out his mask at Vicarage Road and revealed after the game that Wolves’ bench forgot to hand it to him.

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Jimenez added: “When you score you can do whatever you want. I don’t know if I’m going to win or I’m going to lose, I just did it. It’s something from Mexico and I’m happy with it.

“I brought it but I don’t know why the people on the bench didn’t give it to me. They didn’t remember!

“I haven’t scored since the last time we played against Watford, that’s why I didn’t do it before.”

Will we see it again? “Yes, why not?”

Jimenez’s latest star turn helped Wolves move four points clear of Watford and Everton in the race for seventh place. A victory over already relegated Fulham next weekend would guarantee Wolves finish as the ‘best of the rest’ outside the Big Six, provided Leicester City, who beat Arsenal 3-0 on Sunday, don’t win both of their remaining Premier League fixtures.

That will mean Europa League football IF Watford are defeated by Manchester City in the FA Cup final next month.

“It would be a great achievement,” said Jimenez, who could hardly stop smiling in Vicarage Road's mixed zone. “At the beginning of the season all the other people thought we were going to be fighting to stay in the Premier League. Now we are achieving good things and we’re one game away from finishing seventh.

“It’s going to be amazing if we can go to the Europa League. The final of the FA Cup still has to be played though.

“Since about eight matches in, that was the moment we knew we’d be fighting for the top places. This is a very good season for us and we’re very happy.”

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