2026/2027 season

Premier League

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Brentford
Head coach: Keith Andrews · 4-2-3-1. Vérifié : schéma explicitement indiqué par les feuilles de match Sky Sports lors des deux journées — contre Tottenham (22/08 : Kelleher ; Kayode, Ajer, Collins, Lewis-Potter ; Janelt, Sangare ; Ouattara, Jensen, Schade ; Igor Thiago) et à Leeds (30/08 : Kelleher ; Lewis-Potter, Ajer, Collins, Kayode ; Sangare, Janelt ; Schade, Damsgaard, Anthony ; Igor Thiago).
Rank
6th
Pts
10
P
7
Form
🟡 Average

The essentials at a glance

The summary of this page: estimated level of play, form trend and qualitative verdict. For the details, head to the other tabs.

Editors' ratings
9/10
Attack
7/10
Defence
4/10
Form
6/10
Confidence / mood
Current risk:Medium

6th with 10 pts from 7 matches: 2 wins, 4 draws, 1 defeat.

13 goals scored, 8 conceded.

Now he shone in the victory against Brentford – and the coach raves about him.

Welt Sport · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

Bundesliga and the highlights of the Premier League match between Brentford and Liverpool.

Sportschau · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

Liverpool come from behind to beat Brentford 2-1 at the Gtech Community Stadium as the hosts finish with nine men after red cards for Yehor Yarmoliuk and Vitaly Janelt.

BBC Sport · 17 Oct 2026

Manchester City has today added the seventh triumph followed by many other meetings in the English Football League at the reception to the Ipswich (3-2), while Liverpool went to the Brentford stronghold (2-1) to win after a twist.

RTP Desporto · 17 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

How the team has played recently

Match-by-match results, record and rhythm of the current season.

Latest matches
Lvs Liverpool FC (H) · 1-2
Dvs Aston Villa FC (A) · 2-2
Wvs Chelsea FC (H) · 3-0
Dvs AFC Bournemouth (A) · 2-2
Dvs Sunderland AFC (H) · 1-1
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13 scored / 8 conceded over 7 matches played
Rest: 1 day since the last match · 2 matches played in the last 15 days
Home form
2W - 1D - 1L
Away form
0W - 3D - 0L
Statistics

Computed from this season's scores, every time the page is shown.

Goals scored per match
1.8
Goals conceded per match
1.4
At home
5 scored · 3 conceded in 3 matches
Away
4 scored · 4 conceded in 2 matches
Over 2.5 goals
4 of 5
Both teams score
4 of 5
Clean sheets
1 of 5
Failed to score
0 of 5
Cumulative points vs league average

Not enough matchdays recorded yet for this curve — history builds up with every standings refresh.

How Brentford play

System, playing identity, and what sets the team apart at both ends of the pitch.

Playing identity
Preferred system
4-2-3-1. Vérifié : schéma explicitement indiqué par les feuilles de match Sky Sports lors des deux journées — contre Tottenham (22/08 : Kelleher ; Kayode, Ajer, Collins, Lewis-Potter ; Janelt, Sangare ; Ouattara, Jensen, Schade ; Igor Thiago) et à Leeds (30/08 : Kelleher ; Lewis-Potter, Ajer, Collins, Kayode ; Sangare, Janelt ; Schade, Damsgaard, Anthony ; Igor Thiago).
Philosophy
Deliberate continuity with the previous season, according to Andrews after the draw at Leeds: “How we've started the season has been built on what we did last season - you could see that in the first half” (Sky Sports, 30/08/2026). The head coach also stresses the depth of the group: “with the squad we have, there are fine margins between who plays and doesn't play” (Sky Sports, 25/08/2026).
Attacking strengths
4 goals in 2 Premier League matchdays (Lewis-Potter 12', Janelt 33', Kayode 49' against Tottenham; Schade 41' at Leeds), plus 6 goals in the Carabao Cup at Birmingham (1-6 on 25/08: Wilson 6', Hickey 35', Collins 40' and 77', Damsgaard 70', Igor Thiago 73'). Record signing Mamadou Sangare provided two assists on his debut against Tottenham.
Defensive solidity
Just 1 goal conceded in 2 league matchdays — the best defence in the group and one of the best in the league as of 30/08 (3-0 clean sheet against Tottenham, Calvert-Lewin equaliser in the 79th minute at Leeds). Nathan Collins, captain and centre-back, also scored a headed brace in the cup.
Pressing
According to Squawka's pre-season analysis (07/08/2026), Brentford set up out of possession in a compact mid-block, with aggressive jumps to win the ball back in the middle third — an analyst's reading, not echoed by the club. Keith Andrews praised the intensity of Kevin Schade's individual pressing during pre-season (17/08/2026), but after the draw at Leeds (30/08/2026) he admitted that his side had struggled to play out cleanly under the opposition's pressing in the most chaotic phases.
Transitions
According to the same Squawka analysis (07/08/2026), Brentford look to exploit transitions through full-backs who push high (Lewis-Potter, Kayode) and quick wingers such as Ouattara and Schade released towards Igor Thiago. A VAVEL pre-match preview (29/08/2026) — a pundit's reading, not confirmed by the club — pointed out that Brentford could find space in transition against an opponent that commits forward, provided they win the ball back and move up quickly.
Strength4th in the table after two matchdays with 4 points, a defence that has conceded 1 goal, a massive summer transfer window for the club (Sangare for £39m, a club record, and Diouf for £40m) and a depth claimed by the head coach, illustrated by the 6-1 in the cup with a heavily rotated eleven.
WeaknessInability to hold on to a lead until the end at Leeds (ahead until the 79th minute, then pegged back after Farke's tactical change, which Andrews himself praised: “Never underestimate Daniel”), and a defensive unit in the midst of being rebuilt with the departure of Ethan Pinnock and the very recent arrival of Diouf. Two long-term absentees in midfield and defence.

The mood around the club, and who is missing

Internal climate, relationship with the supporters, and known absences before the next match.

Mood
Squad confidence
High and clear-eyed at the same time. Unbeaten after two matchdays, fifth, with only one goal conceded, Brentford above all show a level of expectation that has shifted: Keith Andrews said he was disappointed to leave Elland Road with only a point, which, by his own admission, shows where the club now stands. The content of the Leeds match backs him up, with 22 shots attempted to 12. The head coach stresses at the same time that this start to the season is built on last season's foundations and that the squad is constantly growing. The one warning sign is the difficulty in controlling chaotic phases when the opposition raises its game.
Coach / players / board relationship
No source consulted reports friction between Keith Andrews, the board and the dressing room, and several concrete things point the other way. Sky Sports note that the club completed contract extensions this summer and above all kept its most sought-after forwards, which matches exactly the line the head coach defends publicly. Andrews was also involved in presenting new signing El Hadji Malick Diouf, a sign of his involvement in recruitment. Sky Sports marked the window 9 out of 10, the best in the league alongside Bournemouth's.
Mood with the supporters
Not verified. No source consulted describes the climate around the team; simply worth noting the favourable context of an unbeaten start to the season and a 3-0 home win on matchday 1.
Pressure on the head coach
Almost non-existent. Keith Andrews is unbeaten, fifth, and his team have the best defensive organisation in the league after Arsenal and Hull. No source consulted raises the slightest question about his position, and his post-match message at Leeds was that of a head coach judging his squad above the result obtained. The immediate schedule, with Sunderland at home and then a trip to Bournemouth, holds no insurmountable trap.
Club objectives
Not verified. No official target announced by the club for 2026-27 was found in the sources consulted.
Recent internal tensions
No tension reported at this stage by the sources consulted. The only open matter at the end of the window, Hull City's interest in Fábio Carvalho, did not turn into a conflict and the window is now shut. The two notable departures, Ethan Pinnock and Frank Onyeka to Coventry for £5m and £6m, were embraced as part of a selling policy Sky Sports rate the second most efficient in the league. The only sporting point to watch remains midfield, weakened by the long absences of Antoni Milambo and Sepp van den Berg.
Absences
InjuredAntoni Milambo — Knee injury, return estimated for around 10 October.
InjuredSepp van den Berg — Unavailable, return estimated for around 10 October.
InjuredMathias Jensen — Absent, with no return date given.

Before kick-off

What to know before the next match: statistical form, qualitative analysis, and a computed estimate of the 1/X/2 probabilities.

Next match

Hull City — Brentford

AwaySunday 25 October at 15:00Matchday 8
In 7 days. Kick-off time confirmed by the league. Paris time · football-data.org fixtures.

Prediction, odds and form of both teams →

What the press says

No preview found for this fixture. The press mostly covers the big games, and usually the day before.

Prediction
EstimateHull City — Brentford
35 %
1 · Hull City
27 %
X · draw
38 %
2 · Brentford
In-house calculation, from this page's standings data alone: 7 matches played by Hull City, 7 matches by Brentford. Confidence: medium
The formula, in plain words — with this match's figures
  1. League average. 189 goals scored over 130 team-matches played (20 teams taken into account), i.e. μ = 1.45 goal scored per team per match. This is the reference point: everything that follows is expressed relative to it.
  2. Attacking and defensive strengths. Goals scored (or conceded) per match, divided by μ. 1.00 = exactly average; in defence, above 1.00 means “concedes more than average”.
    TeamGoalsRawKept
    Hull City — attack8 in 7 matches0.790.88
    Hull City — defence7 in 7 matches0.690.83
    Brentford — attack13 in 7 matches1.281.15
    Brentford — defence8 in 7 matches0.790.88
    The “Kept” column is the result of shrinkage towards the mean: weight = P / (P + 6), i.e. 0.54 for Hull City and 0.54 for Brentford. The rest of the weight goes to the league average. This is what stops a lone 5-0 from producing an attack at 3.3 times the average — and hence a 95% probability.
  3. Home advantage (γ). Measured on the league itself: 1.42 goal scored on average by the host against 1.42 by the visitor, over the 52 fixtures present in each team's last 5 matches. Raw ratio 1.00; shrunk towards 1 (weight 0.44, on the log of the ratio) then capped at 1.25 → γ = 1.00. Shrinkage goes towards 1, i.e. no advantage at all: while the sample is small, the model does not assert a home advantage it cannot measure.
  4. Venue correction, specific to each team. Drawn from the home/away split: points per match at the venue concerned are compared to points per match over all fixtures, with stronger shrinkage (weight = P / (P + 8)) and a bound of ±12%.
    Hull City at home: 1.67 pts/match versus 1.29 overall over 3 matches → ×1.081
    Brentford away: 1.00 pts/match versus 1.43 overall over 3 matches → ×0.918
  5. Expected goals. One side's attack is set against the other's defence. γ applies to the host only: applying it the other way round too would count the home advantage twice.
    λHull City = 1.45 × 0.88 × 0.88 × 1.00 × 1.081 = 1.23
    λBrentford = 1.45 × 1.15 × 0.83 × 0.918 = 1.28
  6. Poisson grid. Probability of every exact score from 0-0 to 8-8, assuming the two goal totals are independent, then adding up the cells: home win 35.5%, draw 26.9%, away win 37.6% — displayed rounded to whole numbers so that they add up to exactly 100. Most likely exact score in the grid: 1-1 (only 12.8%, which says enough about how unpredictable an exact score is).
Limits of this model — they are not anecdotal.
  • It only knows goals and a venue. Neither absences, suspensions, line-ups, fatigue, stakes, weather nor club context enter the calculation — while the other tabs of this page show that they matter.
  • The assumption that the two goal totals are independent is false in reality: it slightly underestimates tight scores, hence the draw.
  • γ is measured over a rolling window (each team's last 5 matches), not over the whole season.
  • The shrinkage constants (6, 60, 8) and the bounds are choices, not measurements. They were tuned to be cautious early in the season; they were not calibrated on a results history, as none is available here.
  • No after-the-fact evaluation has been made: at this stage, nobody knows whether this model is better or worse calibrated than another.
What other sources say
No external source has been collected for this match. That is the normal state: readings are taken by hand, and an empty box is better than an unverified figure.
This block shows probability estimates, not predictions, and carries no advisory value. The in-house estimate is the result of a formula applied to a small sample; the figures from external sources are reproduced as they were collected, without their method having been verified.

The full squad

The professional squad by position, captain marked with an armband.

Goalkeepers
  • Caoimhín Kelleher
  • Hákon Rafn Valdimarsson
Defenders
  • Michael Kayode
  • Kristoffer Ajer
  • Nathan CollinsC
  • Keane Lewis-Potter
  • Aaron Hickey
  • Rico Henry
  • El Hadji Malick Diouf
  • Sepp van den Berg
Midfielders
  • Mamadou Sangare
  • Vitaly Janelt
  • Mathias Jensen
  • Mikkel Damsgaard
  • Yegor Yarmoliuk
  • Jannik Schuster
  • Antoni Milambo
Forwards
  • Igor Thiago
  • Kevin Schade
  • Dango Ouattara
  • Jaidon Anthony
  • Callum Wilson
  • Fábio Carvalho
Squad last verified on 31 Aug 2026 — source: Reconstructed from the official Sky Sports team sheets for Brentford - Tottenham (22/08/2026) and Leeds - Brentford (30/08/2026), supplemented by the Football Web Pages 2026-27 appearances page and the Premier Injuries injury list (30/08/2026). This is NOT the complete official first-team squad list but the set of players named on a team sheet or listed as injured. The breakdown by position follows the order of the Sky team sheets. Nathan Collins wore the armband on both matchdays. Ethan Pinnock, on the bench on 22/08, has since been transferred to Coventry City and is not listed..

What has been said recently

Chronological feed of verified information about the club.

rss17 Oct 2026
What happened here? Brentford middle man lost his mind and got kicked out
Source: Notícias ao Minuto — Desporto
rss17 Oct 2026
Liverpool fired to victory at nine-man Brentford by £350m frontline
Source: The Independent — Football
rss17 Oct 2026
Andoni Iraola's bold Liverpool change pays off as nine-man Brentford cause their own undoing
Source: Mirror Football
rss17 Oct 2026
Liverpool suffer double injury blow vs Brentford as issues pile up for Andoni Iraola
Source: Mirror Football
rss17 Oct 2026
Liverpool boosted by Alexander Isak and Dominik Szoboszlai returns for Brentford visit
Source: The Independent — Football
rss17 Oct 2026
Liverpool come from behind to beat nine-man Brentford
Source: BBC Sport
Result3 Sep 2026
The table as it stood before matchday 3 puts Brentford fifth on four points, with four goals scored and only one conceded, the second-best defence in the league behind Arsenal and Hull.
Source: Sky Sports
Club3 Sep 2026
Matchday 3 brings Sunderland to the Gtech Community Stadium on Saturday 5 September at 15:00.
Source: Football Web Pages
Institutional3 Sep 2026
Sky Sports' value analysis rates Brentford the second-best sellers of the English summer window, at only £0.03m above the combined estimated value of the players who left, in a summer when the Premier League broke its spending record.
Source: Sky Sports
Injury3 Sep 2026
Midfield is weakened: Antoni Milambo has a knee problem and Sepp van den Berg is unavailable, both with a return estimated during October, while Mathias Jensen is also out with no date set.
Source: SportsGambler
Institutional2 Sep 2026
Sky Sports give Brentford 9 out of 10 for their window: Mamadou Sangaré's arrival for £39m is judged potentially excellent, the club kept its most sought-after forwards and completed contract extensions, perfection being withheld only in the name of there always being room to improve.
Source: Sky Sports
Transfers2 Sep 2026
The summary of moves published by VAVEL confirms two sales to promoted Coventry City: centre-back Ethan Pinnock for £5m and midfielder Frank Onyeka for £6m.
Source: VAVEL
Transfers1 Sep 2026
The summer window, which closed on 1 September, ended with Jordan Henderson leaving on a free to Chelsea, a loss of experience in midfield.
Source: Sky Sports
Head coach30 Aug 2026
Keith Andrews gave a demanding reading of the draw at Elland Road: I think we were magnificent in the first half, we took the lead and we could have added more, but we could not play out from the back in the chaotic phases. He added a line that says a lot about the level of expectation now in place: it shows where we are that we leave Elland Road disappointed with a draw.
Source: VAVEL
Result30 Aug 2026
Sky Sports' report on the 1-1 at Elland Road gives the measure of the Bees' dominance: 22 shots to 12, a Kevin Schade goal on 41 minutes, and then a shift in the match when Daniel Farke went back to a four at half-time with two changes, before Dominic Calvert-Lewin equalised on 79 minutes from a low Lukas Nmecha cross.
Source: Sky Sports
Result30 Aug 2026
Brentford snatched a 1-1 draw at Leeds on 30 August and have four points after two matchdays, following their comfortable 3-0 win against Tottenham on the opening day.
Source: worldfootball.net
News last verified on 18 Oct 2026. Sources: sports press (L'Équipe, Le Parisien, Foot Mercato, regional press…) and official club websites — see the link on each item.
Editorial content (playing style, mood, absences, external prediction sources) last verified on 3 Sep 2026. The standings/form data above are refreshed automatically — as is the 1/X/2 estimate, recomputed on every view.