Brentford 3-0 West Ham: Andrews´ men soar into top six with dazzling display

Brentford boosted their Champions League hopes and dented West Ham’s possibilities of avoiding relegation from the Premier League with an eye catching 3-0 win on the Gtech Group Stadium.

An end-to-end first half someway featured only one objective, with Konstantinos Mavropanos placing by way of his personal web below strain from Michael Kayode within the fifteenth minute.

Mavropanos had a robust header on the different finish disallowed for offside, whereas Valentin Castellanos struck each posts earlier than the interval – with a roller from the sting of the field and a bullet header from a nook.

Igor Thiago and Mikkel Damsgaard additionally handed up glorious probabilities earlier than the primary interval was by way of, however they had been each on course within the second as Brentford streaked clear.

Thiago despatched Mads Hermansen the fallacious method from the penalty spot within the 54th minute, after El Hadji Malick Diouf clumsily chopped down Dango Ouattara simply inside the world.

And Damsgaard accomplished the scoring with a neat flip and end with eight minutes to play, after West Ham hit the woodwork for a 3rd time, through Crysencio Summerville’s roller in opposition to the crossbar.

Whereas Brentford climb three locations to sixth, which might convey Champions League qualification if Aston Villa end fifth and win the Europa League, the result’s a significant blow to West Ham’s survival hopes.

They continue to be two factors away from Tottenham in seventeenth, although they may drop into the underside three if Roberto De Zerbi’s crew beat Villa on Sunday.

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Information Debrief: Woodwork frustrates Hammers, Thiago ends derby woes

Brentford entered this recreation having did not win any of their final six Premier League matches (D5 L1), whereas they’d additionally gone six with out victory at dwelling (D4 L2).

However Keith Andrews’ facet stormed to 3 very important factors within the hunt for European qualification. Their 14 photographs had a complete anticipated targets (xG) worth of two.04, in comparison with West Ham’s 0.72 xG from 13 makes an attempt.

Maybe these figures didn’t inform the complete story of the sport, although, as West Ham grew to become solely the fourth crew to hit the woodwork at the least thrice in a Premier League recreation this season (additionally Liverpool versus Manchester United in October, Brentford versus Sunderland in January and Chelsea in opposition to Manchester United final month).

Thiago will likely be notably happy to get on the scoresheet, along with his twenty second objective of the season transferring him inside two of Premier League Golden Boot frontrunner Erling Haaland.

Previous to Saturday, he had solely scored one objective in a Premier League London derby this season, from 21 photographs in these matches.