by Brentford have looked so secure of late. After two successful campaigns, they seemed to have established themselves as a mobile force in the Premier League for whom a European slot was more practical than a quixotic concept.
Third time around, it wasn’t so simple going on and last night’s defeat against a clinical Wolverhampton Wanderers was the sixth in seven games and the relegation berths are heading towards an unwanted sight.
“It’s one of those games you have every year,” said Brentford manager Thomas Frank. “Two big mistakes in goal, plus two that we don’t usually take for granted. But we will get out of this run of bad form. We are a good team, a good squad and we have a lot of character.”
Even after a 10-day break enabled by Manchester City’s Club World Cup jaunt, Brentford are still beset by absences beyond their control (injuries to Rico Henry, Bryan Mbeumo, Aaron Hickey, Kevin Schade, Kristoffer Ayer, Josh Dasilva ), but, also himself. – suffered injuries such as Ivan Toney’s betting escape and the suspension of Frank Onyeka and Ben Mee.
However, for all their personnel issues, Brentford were the architects of their own woes: woeful in defence, where it is hard to imagine a more disastrous 90 minutes for Nathan Collins and he was directly at fault for two back, comfortable i. the third part and he missed sitting in the first half
“I told Nathan it won’t get any worse than this,” Frank said. “He will never forget this and although he will be down tonight, the sun will be rising tomorrow and I expect him to walk onto the training pitch with his head held high. If he sits in a corner feeling sorry for himself, he will be lost.”
As always, Brentford’s industrious midfield created chances, but without Toney and Mbeumo, they were outclassed. With Toney far from assured of a return at all with the big clubs circling and the January transfer looming, these are the bleakest moments of Frank’s glittering reign so far.
Two strong defenses made for a very open competition, where errors would flow and goals would follow. Wolves lost the pressure on the determined Mads Roerslev, and Brentford almost scored early on, although it was for Wolves when Vitaly Janelt clipped Hwang Hee-Chan’s cross over his own bar.
The famine would soon end with three goals in three crazy minutes. Brentford struggled to clear a corner before Pablo Sarabia headed deep. Mario Lemina was left alone to send a simple header past Mark Flekken.
Brentford have looked so secure of late. After two successful campaigns, they seemed to have established themselves as a mobile force in the Premier League for whom a European slot was more practical than a quixotic concept. Third time around, it wasn’t so simple going on and last night’s defeat against a clinical Wolverhampton Wanderers was the sixth in seven games and the relegation berths are heading towards an unwanted sight.
“It’s one of those games you have every year,” said Brentford manager Thomas Frank. “Two big mistakes in goal, plus two that we don’t usually take for granted. But we will get out of this run of bad form. We are a good team, a good squad and we have a lot of character.”
Even after a 10-day break enabled by Manchester City’s Club World Cup jaunt, Brentford are still beset by absences beyond their control (injuries to Rico Henry, Bryan Mbeumo, Aaron Hickey, Kevin Schade, Kristoffer Ayer, Josh Dasilva ), but, also himself. – suffered injuries such as Ivan Toney’s betting escape and the suspension of Frank Onyeka and Ben Mee.
However, for all their personnel issues, Brentford were the architects of their own woes: woeful in defence, where it is hard to imagine a more disastrous 90 minutes for Nathan Collins and he was directly at fault for two back, comfortable i. the third part and he missed sitting in the first half
“I told Nathan it won’t get any worse than this,” Frank said. “He will never forget this and although he will be down tonight, the sun will be rising tomorrow and I expect him to walk onto the training pitch with his head held high. If he sits in a corner feeling sorry for himself, he will be lost.”
As always, Brentford’s industrious midfield created chances, but without Toney and Mbeumo, they were outclassed. With Toney far from assured of a return at all with the big clubs circling and the January transfer looming, these are the bleakest moments of Frank’s glittering reign so far.
Two strong defenses made for a very open competition, where errors would flow and goals would follow. Wolves lost the pressure on the determined Mads Roerslev, and Brentford almost scored early on, although it was for Wolves when Vitaly Janelt clipped Hwang Hee-Chan’s cross over his own bar.
The famine would soon end with three goals in three crazy minutes. Brentford struggled to clear a corner before Pablo Sarabia headed deep. Mario Lemina was left alone to send a simple header past Mark Flekken.
