BRENTFORD NYLONS
Brentford 2 West Ham 0
Brentford are in their second season in the top flight since the Second World War and yet Hammers have still to register a single point from the three Premier League fixtures in which they’ve faced them. And why would this afternoon be any different? This time last year they were facing a difficult second away leg against Lyon after the Brentford away game. This season they are facing… a difficult second away leg against AZ Alkmaar after this Brentford away game.
Both Declan Rice and Ivan Toney fail to make the starting line-ups, as do eight of the other ten starters for West Ham from last Thursday. So David Moyes has actually done the right thing, resting his first teamers before their vital European Conference League semi-final in Holland. But the squad players will surely raise their game to put themselves in David Moyes’ mind for a potential final in June. You’d think.
It seems as though Brentford are more interested in getting something out of this game than West Ham, forcing corners and shots on the break throughout the first quarter of an hour.
1 Lucasz Fabianski, 2 Ben Johnson, 33 Emerson, 21 Angelo Ogbonna (captain), 27 Nayef Aguerd, 8 Pablo Fornals,, 10 Manuel Lanzini, 12 Flynn Downes, 28 Tomas Souček, 14 Maxwell Cornet, 18 Danny Ings
Substitutes:, 22 Saïd Benrahma, 41 Declan Rice, 75 Divin Mubama, 20 Jarrod Bowen
