Brentford v Fulham: Premier League – live | Premier League
Key occasions
Teams in full
A story of two benches… Brentford’s is wanting expertise and filled with defenders, whereas Fulham’s has a full entrance six and aptitude to spare.
Brentford (4-2-3-1) Kelleher; Kayode, van den Berg, Collins, Lewis-Potter; Yarmoliuk, Jensen; Ouattara, Damsgaard, Schade; Thiago.
Subs: Valdimarsson, Hickey, Shield, Ajer, Pinnock, Stephenson, Nelson, Bentt, Donovan.
Fulham (4-2-3-1) Leno; Castagne, Andersen, Bassey, Sessegnon; Lukic, Cairney; Wilson, Smith Rowe, Iwobi; Muniz.
Subs: Lecomte, Diop, Robinson, Berge, Reed, King, Bobb, Chukwueze, Jimenez.
Teams in short: Fulham shake it up
Marco Silva makes 4 modifications to the facet that misplaced 2-0 at Anfield. Sasa Lukic is prepared for his first begin in three months, however he does not summarize his partnership with Sander Berge, who drops to the bench as Tom Cairney is available in. Lukic’s return frees Alex Iwobi to roam ahead once more. He’ll be chopping in from the left to affix Emile Smith Rowe, who replaces Josh King as the ten. At left-back, Ryan Sessegnon is most well-liked to Antonee Robinson.
Teams in short: no surprises for Brentford
After seeing Everton document a last-gasp equalizer final weekend, Keith Andrews sees no motive to vary a drawing staff. It’s a powerful XI however, with Jordan Henderson nonetheless dominated out by an unnamed harm, the bench appears to be like a bit skimpy.
Preamble
Morning everybody and welcome to a feast of a weekend within the Premier League. There’s much more on the menu than a mere title to determine. There’s the Merseyside derby, with Everton at residence of their new stadium and, for as soon as, in higher form than Liverpool. There’s Spurs, in spectacular disarray, taking up Brighton, the perfect staff within the league over the previous two months. There’s Chelsea, who have not scored in opposition to a top-flight membership for 5 weeks, dealing with Man United, who appear to have mislaid all their centre-backs.
And first there’s Brentford v Fulham, which is extra appetizing than it could look. It’s not only a native derby – it is a six-pointer that can have a say in who makes it into Europe. If Brentford win, they will go from seventh to sixth, above Chelsea, and, if just for a number of hours, these quiet over-achievers can be lording it over west London. If Fulham win, they will soar from twelfth to ninth and draw degree on factors with Brentford.
The greatest menace on both facet is clearly Igor Thiago, the Haaland of the south. But he might have his work lower out as a result of the final three video games between these sides have all ended with a win for Fulham. In the reverse fixture, Brentford took an early lead, solely to be battered by three objectives in six minutes earlier than half-time. One of them was scored by Harry Wilson, who eats Brentford defenders for breakfast. As my colleague Taha Hashim identified yesterday, Wilson has 4 objectives in his previous 118 minutes in opposition to these opponents.
But then that final assembly was seven months in the past, earlier than Brentford had obtained going beneath Keith Andrews. It left them seventeenth, whereas Fulham had been eighth (simply above Man City), Spurs had been third and Liverpool had been the runaway leaders. This has been a season during which everybody turned out to be fallible, even the staff who’ve been prime for months. And that makes nearly each recreation fascinating.
