Brentford (A) PL, Sat 25th Sept, 17:30 KO

[Gethin]

Might be a tough game this, they're on a good run of form but haven't really played anyone decent yet.

Thiago's out and it's probably too soon for Bobby, hopefully Trent's back.

Game's on Sky

[Cam]

I thought they had come up playing swashbuckling, freestyle, total football but a few people now have said they're a dirty team on the sly.  More akin to Burnley than Brazil 1970.

I've not seen a minute of them so I don't know if anyone here can corroborate?

[Boca]

Just now, Cam said:

I thought they had come up playing swashbuckling, freestyle, total football but a few people now have said they're a dirty team on the sly.  More akin to Burnley than Brazil 1970.

I've not seen a minute of them so I don't know if anyone here can corroborate?

I've only seen the Wolves game but they looked good in that.

Played attacking football. Nothing like Burnley.

[Cam]

Just now, Boca said:

I've only seen the Wolves game but they looked good in that.

Played attacking football. Nothing like Burnley.

Good.  Will hopefully mean we come out of it with no injuries.  10 of the 11 are obvious, just the 3rd midfield place really and I think he'll go for Jimbob over Curtis.

Alisson

Trent Matip VvD Robertson

Henderson Fabinho Milner 

Salah Jota Mane

 

[Tommok]

On 22/09/2021 at 09:45, Cam said:

I thought they had come up playing swashbuckling, freestyle, total football but a few people now have said they're a dirty team on the sly.  More akin to Burnley than Brazil 1970.

I've not seen a minute of them so I don't know if anyone here can corroborate?

Their striker, Toney, looks a decent player, scored loads in the Championship and looked good in their first few games this season. 

You'd imagine VVD will cope with him tho. 

Edited September 23, 2021 by Tommok

[Nebraska Red]

This will be like a Champions League Final for them.

[Dominus Maximus]

Easy 2-0 here. In the end we are far stronger tham them. 

[stonty]

On 22/09/2021 at 09:55, Cam said:

 

Alisson

Trent Matip VvD Robertson

Henderson Fabinho Milner 

Salah Jota Mane

 

That should show the upstarts

 

 

 

[RaoulD]

Remember the last time we played them away. They had Ron "Chopper" Harris trying to stop Ian Rush!

[Tommok]

5 hours ago, RaoulD said:

Remember the last time we played them away. They had Ron "Chopper" Harris trying to stop Ian Rush!

Yeah 1983 and Rush scored twice in a 1-4 win. We won the home leg 4-0. 

In fact we've always scored 4 against them - the other game being the 4-0 win in the FA Cup in 1989.

[RaoulD]

19 hours ago, Tommok said:

Yeah 1983 and Rush scored twice in a 1-4 win. We won the home leg 4-0. 

In fact we've always scored 4 against them - the other game being the 4-0 win in the FA Cup in 1989.

They had a decent player called Francis Joseph playing for them who caused us a few problems early on but after half time we stepped up a gear. 

[Rory Fitzgerald]

Some basic numbers in one tweet and a snapshot to show who their regular players are and their formation etc

 

 

[PaulMcC186]

22 minutes ago, Rory Fitzgerald said:

Some basic numbers in one tweet and a snapshot to show who their regular players are and their formation etc

 

 

What are they like defending set pieces? We're getting loads of chances from them this season.

[Rory Fitzgerald]

15 hours ago, PaulMcC186 said:

What are they like defending set pieces? We're getting loads of chances from them this season.

Haven't seen enough of them mate. I try get a sense of the basics of what we might confront especially with a team new to the league. The Fulham away game was a real surprise last year with how they stepped up their energy and ran us ragged in the 1st half with us being well below par. So just try to understand if these would put it up to us or take a more cautious approach 

[kop205]

Were Fulham up last year? Genuinely have no memory of them at all.

[Tommok]

Brentford generally do press quite well and then look to ping balls through for Toney at every opportunity. He's pretty fairly quick for a big guy and is strong so will be a handful 

[Ombudsam]

3 hours ago, kop205 said:

Were Fulham up last year? Genuinely have no memory of them at all.

They took 4 points from their games with us

HTH

[PaulMcC186]

Good team

Alisson, Trent Matip Van Dijk Robertson, Fabinho Henderson Jones, Salah Jota Mane

 

 

 

 

[Smith]

1 minute ago, PaulMcC186 said:

Good team

Alisson, Trent Matip Van Dijk Robertson, Fabinho Henderson Jones, Salah Jota Mane

 

 

 

 

As good as it can be, I recon.

[PaulMcC186]

Just now, Smith said:

As good as it can be, I recon.

I agree. Rest whoever needs it against Porto and probably same team against City.

[Gethin]

2 minutes ago, PaulMcC186 said:

Rest whoever needs it against Porto

Not going to happen - nor should it. City have PSG so won't be resting anyone

[stressederic]

 

[Gethin]

 

[PaulMcC186]

1 minute ago, Gethin said:

Not going to happen - nor should it. City have PSG so won't be resting anyone

You reckon we'll play the same team 3 games in a row? I think we'll make changes.

[Tommok]

Other than Thiago for Jones that's our strongest side isn't it