Nuno will not start Traore yet - that is obvious. And it's not because he isn't a dangerous player going forward, because he is. His pace and trickery will more often than not create 1-2 good chances towards the end of the game (you just have to turn a blind eye to the occasions where he makes the wrong decision or runs straight in to players) - the reason Nuno won't start Traore is because he just doesn't give you the shape and discipline that Costa/Jota/Cav give us defensively. Our game is just important defensively as it is going forward - we're not good enough to have the luxury of playing someone who completely fucks the shape of the team up. Until Traore improves this side of his game (and Nuno will have known what he was buying), he will not start games of football for us in the Premier League.
The obvious change for me is Jota to come out of the firing line for a little bit, allowing Cav to start. I just can't see Nuno dropping Jota, though - and I can't see Dendonker coming straight in from not even being on the bench to starting either. Plus who does he come in for? Moutinho? Neves? Bennett? Tricky one for Nuno because it's good to show loyalty to the same players (8-9 games unchanged is unheard of) but he needs to be careful that things don't become a bit predictable - Watford showed other teams a way of playing against us, and now there's a blueprint in place. Obviously at some point I don't think you can carry on leaving a Belgium international out of the matchday squad, but it would be extremely harsh to drop Bennett after one average performance IMO, but that's the kind of decision Nuno gets paid very good money to make.
In respect to the Watford game itself, there were a number of players below par; mainly the lads who'd gone away on international duty looked shattered. DW raised a very good point about a Manager being proactive, not reactive. Difficult to be too critical of Nuno considering their two goals were less than a minute apart - but we were miles off the pace for the remainder of the first half and it took the young Vinagre to come on and change things with his tempo and endeavor to get forward. For me, we don't look like scoring more than 1 x goal in a game. Whether that's specifically down to our style of play, or the players themselves, I don't know. Hopefully Nuno does. But with games against Spurs and Arsenal coming up, Brighton is now looking like a match we could do with winning.