Whereas Keith Andrews was relieved to see Brentford win a seven-goal thriller at Burnley on Saturday, he feels they need to use that match as a studying alternative forward of visiting Bournemouth on Tuesday.
The Bees maintained their optimistic momentum within the race for European soccer by profitable 4-3 at Turf Moor, however the scoreline didn’t start to inform the complete story of the sport.
Brentford squandered a 3-0 lead and virtually discovered themselves 4-3 down, as Burnley’s Zian Flemming noticed a objective chalked off for a marginal offside. However Mikkel Damsgaard’s second objective, three minutes into second-half stoppage time, sealed victory for Andrews’ males.
A win at Bournemouth on Tuesday would see them leapfrog neighbours Chelsea into the Premier League’s prime six, however Andrews says they need to enhance points of their sport.
“We had full management, I don’t assume it’s unfair to say we may have been 5 objectives up,” Andrews mirrored on Monday.
“For the sport to materialise the way in which it did, to concede simply earlier than half-time with an personal objective, after which within the first quarter-hour of the second half… we struggled to take care of what they threw at us.
“The place I’m at with it now could be we discovered a solution to win the sport, however we should study from it. Momentum is large within the sport, isn’t it? It’s enormous.
“Within the second half, the momentum was going towards us, so it’s about discovering methods of stopping that. Whether or not that’s somebody taking care with the go, taking part in for territory, simply studying do take care of that, seeing how we will keep calm when the chaos comes.
“It was a useful studying expertise for us all and the very best factor about it was we received the sport.”
Bournemouth are three locations and 4 factors beneath Brentford within the desk and nonetheless harbour European aspirations of their very own, although they have been held to a 1-1 draw by Sunderland final day trip.
Evanilson scored their equaliser in that sport earlier than exiting with a useless leg, and Andoni Iraola will give the striker each likelihood to show his health.
“Yesterday, he didn’t practice. He was nonetheless very sore,” Iraola stated on Monday. “However we practice this night, so I hope he comes with higher emotions and he provides it a attempt, a minimum of.
“He’s not injured, it’s only a knock, a useless leg, however clearly we’re speaking about one or two days, and it nonetheless is a bit bit sore.”
PLAYERS TO WATCH
Bournemouth – Evanilson
Final day trip towards Sunderland, Evanilson turned the primary Bournemouth participant to be subbed on, rating after which be subbed off in a league match since James Keene towards Brentford in October 2005. Iraola shall be determined to have him accessible on Tuesday.
Brentford – Kevin Schade
Schade scored a hat-trick in Brentford’s 4-1 win over Bournemouth on the Gtech Group Stadium in December.
The one gamers to attain 4 or extra objectives towards the Cherries inside a single Premier League season are Harry Kane (5 in 2015-16), Romelu Lukaku (4 in 2016-17) and Mohamed Salah (4 in 2018-19).
MATCH PREDICTION – BOURNEMOUTH WIN
Having misplaced seven of their first eight away league video games this season (W1), Brentford have now received 5 of their final six on the highway (L1).
They wish to win 4 in a row away from residence for simply the second time within the competitors, after a run of 5 between January and March final season.
And, throughout all competitions, Brentford have received 10 of their final 13 video games towards Bournemouth (D2 L1), together with the final 5 in a row. The final workforce they’d an extended profitable run towards was Preston North Finish, between 2013 and 2016 (six).
However they don’t seem to be favoured by the Opta supercomputer this time round, with Bournemouth going unbeaten of their final eight Premier League video games (W4 D4).
Solely as soon as have they’d an extended run with out defeat within the prime flight, going 11 matches with out dropping between November and January final season.
Bournemouth have drawn extra Premier League video games than some other aspect this season (12), so the factors being shared can’t be dominated out. That is already their most attracts in a single top-flight marketing campaign.
OPTA WIN PROBABILITY
Bournemouth – 44.6%
Brentford – 28.5%
Draw – 26.9%
