25 Sep 2021 19:36:46
Result aside, what a great game of football! We did not deserve to win with that level of defending but it happens. Still undefeated and top of the table. I am confident we will be challenging for the league. On to City.

25 Sep 2021 19:53:31
Not trying to state the obvious mate but if we defend like that against citee we will be hammered Trent and Robbo were shocking.

25 Sep 2021 19:53:46
Brentford were excellent. People going on about our defending like it was the worst defending ever. Why can’t we just say the attacking was pretty good on the other side too? Sure, we made some mistakes, but that’s sport.

Hats off to Curtis Jones though. He’s going to be some player. 15m to villa 😂. Anyone accepting that needs their head examined.

25 Sep 2021 20:00:33
I mean I don't think brentfords goals were excellent, some of their defending was for sure, and arguably the well worked 1st goal (which i think we could have defended better, what was jones doing) .
But those goals were all on us.

25 Sep 2021 20:05:20
Great game, full respect to Brentford for their spirit and refusing to lie down. Defence had an off day, welcome to the real world. On to the next, top of the table and still unbeaten.
Let the weeping and wailing and demand for transfers commence.

25 Sep 2021 20:38:06
Yeah Brentford were good, but sorry all 3 goals were shocking. Defending was abysmal, the whole back 4 were pretty poor. Worrying that Van dijk and Matip were bullied so badly!

That being said we had chances to win comfortably. But fair play Brentford, great game!

25 Sep 2021 20:44:21
Taking Curtis off was a huge mistake. It literally reopened the game and we lost any semblance of control. Do that against City and it will be a cricket score.

25 Sep 2021 20:46:54
Absolutely abysmal defending worst I’ve seen from us in a long time! Credit to Brentford deserved their point!
I dunno why Jones was whipped I thought he was having a good game maybe only me! Not the result I wanted anyway!

25 Sep 2021 20:47:16
After the other results today a win would have put us in a very good spot. Only 1 of the subs used tonight. Think that shows how Klopp feels about what we have on the bench with regards to match winners.

25 Sep 2021 21:08:36
We didn’t deserve to win. I had my eye on today since the season began as the real test of the players if they’re up for the fight. Very disappointing but we move on take the point try beat Porto and City.

25 Sep 2021 21:45:30
Jones was off it second half, great strike though. Perhaps not the best time to take him off being on a high after scoring. Credit to Brentford, bullied TAA, picked there battles and go away with a point. Still early days, I'm confident we will be there at the business end.

25 Sep 2021 23:11:32
A win today would have put us 3 points “clear” with about another 90 points to be won.

I thought it was great entertainment - 6 goals, could easily have been about 10. Brentford will give a few teams a good game this season - especially at their place.

16 league games unbeaten and Citeh next week - if you aren’t enjoying it then you don’t like football.

And you boys, you know who you are, selling Curtis Jones to Villa because he was / is, as Klopp said in pre-season, learning a new position . really?

25 Sep 2021 23:32:07
The defending today of how things used to be when Klopp just arrived. Absolute shambles. We were in danger with near every ball that dropped in the box and with every move that Brentford made. Salah and Mane had chances to finish them off and wasted them so I wasn’t surprised when they equalised. Brentford was brilliant and deserved what they got. We? We got exactly what we deserved. We move on.

26 Sep 2021 01:28:06
If we play like this against city. blah blah blah so tired of that statement.

yes poor defending in this game relative to a season where we have been excellent so far.

If we defend like we have for 83.33% of the season and attack like we have for 100% of the season versus City then we'll be in with a shout.

26 Sep 2021 06:00:23
We were wasteful in the final third this game could of been won in the first half, it's not fair to blame the back 4 when the chances came and went on many occasions to our front 3 but they each squandered the opportunitys, the fact that Brentford exposed us twice from similar passages of play was infuriating.

26 Sep 2021 07:59:50
Iron man, I fully agree with you but the defence got absolutely bullied last night and fair play to Brentford who played brilliantly and once they smelt blood in the water with our defence all over the place, they kept applying pressure where it hurt and the dam kept breaking.

That said, the strikers esp Salah who had a chance to kill the game off fluffed his lines and that came back to hurt us. I think both points are correct and besides even if we had secured the result, it still would have been classed as a bang average perf., IMO.

26 Sep 2021 10:29:41
I honestly can’t see what the point was of bringing a fourth forward (who has only just come back from injury and not match fit) on was when we were already ahead, it was obvious that only two men in midfield would be inadequate to deal with what they were throwing at us. That was absolutely an baffling.

Given that City don’t concede many but they do score lots, they’ll be looking at our performance knowing we can be got at. I’m not buying into this “oh it was an exciting game of football” nonsense, yeah for the nuetral or a Brentford fan, but for me it was terrible. We threw away a chance of a critical away win, same mistakes we made last season in somehow snatching a draw or a defeat out of the jaws of victory. That was not the performance of a potential premier championship winning side.

26 Sep 2021 11:42:59
Do you think we will employ the same tactics against City that we employed against Brentford? Do you think we employed the same tactics against Brentford as we did against Palace? do you think City will play the same way as Brentford, employing two very physical front men?

26 Sep 2021 13:01:37
My question exactly, WDW. How can we even play that way vs City when City don’t play the same way Brentford play? It’s mad out here after a bad result.