Richard Naylor's sixth-minute strike was enough to see United claim the points and notch up back-to-back npower Championship wins after last week's victory over Millwall.

The Hornets pushed forward for an equaliser, but they came up against a Leeds defence who were in no mood to give anything away to the delight of Grayson.

"It's a good result because it's our first away win of the season, a clean sheet as well and this is a difficult place to come and get a result," he said.

"Watford have a way of playing, we have to deal with that and show different sides of our game. We passed the ball as well as we can do, although we were not creative as we like to think we can be.

"But we had to show a resilience, defend properly, head things, keeper coming for the ball and catching and we showed a lot of good aspects in terms of our defending.

"When you get the early score, it gives you something to, not hang on to, but it gives you the opportunity to make sure that you try and keep a clean sheet and we did that."

Watford boss Malky Mackay was left frustrated after his side failed to take anything out of the game.

He said: "We huffed and puffed and we had some near misses but once Leeds got the early goal they set out their stall to be very resilient but, on another day, the break of the ball goes the other way and we come out of that with a draw."

Mackay disputed the suggestion that his side struggled to create many clear-cut chances and said: "John Eustace had a real clear-cut one in the first half where it bounced to him on the six-yard line and I thought Marvin Sordell, on another day, when he was slipped in on the right-hand side, he scores.

"I thought we had a lot of pressure and we had three or four at least where, on another day, they would have been in the net."