Brentford news: Opinion – Fan writer on watching the Bees

Well, that was another boring afternoon at Gtech Community Stadium on Saturday…

Once again Brentford showed how good we can be going forward, but also how careless we keep being at the back.

Given how poor we were both at Fulham and in the first 20 minutes of this game, to come back well to beat an in-form Bournemouth side was a great result, especially going into an international break.

Our goals included another one straight from a kick-off, this time Mikkel Damsgaard finally scoring his first Premier League goal just 21 seconds after we had restarted from the Cherries’ second goal.

It is never easy watching the Bees though and when Bournemouth hit the bar in the 96th minute, it was another head-in-hands moment for us fans.

However, Yoane Wissa is once again showing what a clinical striker he is, and record signing Igor Thiago will not just walk into the side when he is finally fit again.

A word of sympathy for Mads Roerslev, currently one of our two fit full-backs and the recipient of a lot of criticism from fans after unwittingly playing a part in Fulham’s winner last Monday.

Thomas Frank defended him to the media on Friday, but then took him out of the firing line by putting him on the bench on Saturday.

Roerslev has been a steady and generally reliable performer in five-and-a-half years at Brentford, usually filling in for someone else.

So I wonder what he thought when Sepp van den Berg, his replacement at right-back on Saturday, handed the Cherries’ their first goal with a poor backpass.

I am sure that both players will bounce back from these incidents.

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