The Bees looked a shadow of their normal selves at the Lamex, and simply weren’t at the races from start to finish – possibly the only match this season that the reds have failed to impress at some stage during a match. We think the fan video above sums that sentiment up perfectly.
Boro, who had lost six on the spin, were first to the ball too often and were allowed to capitalise on Brentford’s weak finishing by scoring the scruffiest of goals when their chance arose – a mix up between the two Moores saw Marcus Haber nip in and toe-poke home – while the Bees defence stood ball watching.
Admittedly, the Bees created the lion’s share of shots on target, but once again a lack of venom or accuracy frustrated the big away following who endured a poor 90 minutes with the realisation that their team had simply not learned the lessons from last season’s visit to Hertfordshire.
Brentford’s first half performance was of particular concern – the team didn’t look comfortable with the formation and the tempo was all wrong. After the break, following the introduction of Forrester and Logan, things improved a little, but not to the standard that is expected of a team pushing to go up.
Up front, Clayton Donaldson ran tirelessly, and Bradley Wright-Phillips had a couple of great chances, but the service that will see the goal-poacher prosper is clearly still lacking – the Charlton loanee having to create too many openings of his own.
Bees boss Uwe Rosler acknowledged that he got it wrong after the match, saying: “They wanted it a bit more than us but it’s difficult to understand because we have a lot to fight for. But I take my fair share of blame for the formation. It didn’t work as well as I’d hoped.”
That’s all well and good, we’ll take defeat on the chin and move on to Carlisle, the division is so tight that there’s everything still to play for, but that temptation to meddle with the team could be the undoing of hopes of automatic promotion if the gaffer isn’t careful.
We already know we are good enough to go up, we need to stop over-worrying about the opposition and let them worry about the quality we possess – as we did before Christmas.
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The first fans interview suggests that we’ve changed the team too much – but also that the team look tired. Surely this doesn’t make sense.
The meddling is a problem though. Dave has played in most of our big wins this season and was in decent enough nick before the current fascination with young Reeves. Logan has played two great games at home on the bounce but been dropped twice away – doesn’t make any sense
The first fan also mentioned that the whores are better in hong kong than in dubai. I would tend to take what he said with a pinch of salt after that rather strange comment