Taylor has made 31 appearances for Watford this season

Watford defender Martin Taylor believes his side showed they are top six material against Nottingham Forest on Saturday, despite suffering a defeat.

The Hornets were beaten 1-0 at the City Ground but remain in the Championship play-off hunt.

"We're two of the teams that are up there," 31-year-old Taylor told BBC Three Counties Radio.

"We feel we deserve to be around about the top six but we've got a lot of work to do still."

The result means Watford have now gone three league games without a win, leaving them six points adrift of the play-off zone but with two games in hand on most of their rivals.

And Taylor says his team-mates should take the positives from pushing a Forest side, who have won their last six league games, all the way.

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"It's about taking confidence from games like that. Forest knew they were going to have a tough game and we didn't disappoint them," he said.

"It's no disgrace by any means but I feel it was a missed opportunity to put another stamp on this division."

Meanwhile, Watford will monitor the fitness of left-back Lloyd Doyley, who injured a hamstring against Forest, ahead of Saturday's home clash with Burnley.

"He felt a tightness, I thought he stuck to his task so well," explained Hornets boss Malky Mackay.

"In the second half he felt a tightness in the hamstring. We'll assess that and see how it is. It's something we've got to look at."

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