Written by billythekid
AFCB Visit Top Of The Home Table Brentford
After taking seven points out of a possible nine in our last three games against Arsenal, Aston Villa, and our latest scalp and the first time in our history beating Manchester City, our club’s next game is away against 12th-placed Brentford. As we go into this game the Cherries are 10th in the table after 10 games with 15 points, two more than Brentford. Brentford are top of the home table and AFCB are 12th in the away table.
Brentford v AFC Bournemouth
Brentford Win
Draw
AFCB Win
Last season Brentford finished in 16th place in the table with 39 points, four places and 9 points behind the Cherries. This was Thomas Frank’s lowest finish as Brentford manager in his time at the club in three full seasons in the Premier League. He will be hoping for a better finish this season.
At home so far this season, the Bees remain undefeated. They have beaten Crystal Palace 2-1, Southampton 3-1, Wolves 5-3 and newcomers Ipswich Town 4-3. They drew 1-1 with West Ham. Away from home, they have lost all their first five games. Liverpool 2-0, Manchester City 2-1, Spurs 3-1 and Manchester United 2-1. Their most recent game at Craven Cottage against Fulham finished 2-1, with Fulham scoring two injury-time goals.
The last time our side played at Brentford was last September. Mathias Jensen opening the scoring for Brentford in the seventh minute, but Dominic Solanke equalised to make it 1-1 at half time. David Brooks put AFCB in front with 13 minutes of normal time to go. Bryan Mbeumo scored the equaliser in the 93rd minute and that was how it remained.
In all our league games away against Brentford, AFCB have W 9, D 20, L 24.
In all competitions, AFCB have W 39, D 34, L 43.
Brentford Team News
Igor Thiago, Joshua Dasilva, Kristoffer Ajer, Rico Henry, Gustavo Nunes, Aaron Hickey, and Fernandes Gomes have all been injured.
Brentford Player To Watch
Bryan Mbeumo, has scored 5 goals (4 at home) in his last six games and is joint second highest scorer in this league with 8 goals. Yoane Wissa, has scored 4 goals in his three home league games he has played this season. Mikkel Damsgaard has 4 assists (3 at home) in his last four games.
AFCB Team News
The Cherries were missing Dango Ouattara, Kepa, Alex Scott, and Luis Sinisterra for the Manchester City game injured.
AFCB Player To Watch
Milos Kerkez seems to be getting better with each game he plays, both attacking and defending. Antoine Semenyo had a great game against Manchester City. Evanilson is now putting away chances and has scored 2 goals in his last two games. But the team is on top of their game at the moment as well, which is why we are picking up points.
The Referee
Darren Bond is in charge of this game, we had him away against Leicester City.
Matt Stevenson added…
I’ve looked at the last 4 league games for Brentford. These were two home games (Wolves and Ipswich) and two away games (Man Utd and Fulham). Brentford have gained 6 points, winning both home games but losing both away ones. xG suggests this is about right. Brentford have scored 11 goals and conceded 10 with xG estimating 9.79 goals with 5.04 conceded, showing considerably more goals have been conceded than expected.
Brentford have had 7 different goal scorers (Mbeumo with 3 and Pinnock with 2). 7 players have had assists too, with Damsgaard with 3 and Lewis-Potter with 2.
The average positions of the starting line-ups are below. Both home games have been against teams in the bottom three. Bar the defensive display at Fulham, Brentford generally like to have a compact band around the middle third of the pitch.
The following graph compares summary stats of Brentford and AFCB over the last 4 games, although this is an unfair comparison as Wolves / Man U / Ipswich / Fulham are not as tough as Leicester / Arsenal / A Villa / Man C.
AFCB have created many more chances per game although Brentford have had more big chances, and have scored more goals. We have conceded significantly fewer attempts, but around the same number of big chances, but AFCB have conceded fewer goals. xG is in Brentford’s favour although xGc is very similar between the teams. Brentford have made one more error compared with AFCB.
Neither side have had more than 50% possession. Brentford’s games appear to be very set piece based with nearly 40% of chances created this way and only 20% of chances conceded from set pieces. Pass completion rates are similar.
Your say…
kirsikka posted…
Seems Rico Henry is still out injured and, up until now, Frank has been reluctant to play the young backup left back they recruited and instead has been playing players out of position there.
Given that seems like an obvious weakness to target, expect Semenyo to start on the right. We can always switch it around if, for some reason, it doesn’t work.
Druss said…
Take a draw and run back home with it. Keeps our feet on the ground without grinding the great run to a halt.
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