(Football news) The Irons advanced to the EFL Cup quarterfinals thanks to a 3-1 victory against Arsenal midweek, while the Bees created history at Stamford Bridge by defeating Chelsea 2-0 last weekend.
Brentford became the first team in history to win their first three Premier League games at Stamford Bridge last weekend, ending the Blues’ mini-revival and earning bragging rights in West London. The team took a lot of Chelsea pressure before launching two devastating counterattacks.
An abundance of chances for the home team came and went, but Brentford stormed down the other end, taking the lead through a header from Ethan Pinnock. Robert Sanchez then came up for an injury-time corner and left his goal open, which allowed Bryan Mbeumo and Neal Maupay to combine and roll the ball into an empty net.
While Brentford’s comeback against Burnley last weekend put an end to Chelsea’s, the Bees are currently experiencing their own upturn in luck. This is the first time in team history that they have won back-to-back games and kept a clean sheet in back-to-back Premier League victories.
The Bees are looking to win three straight Premier League titles for the first time since the last three gameweeks of the 2022–2023 season, when West Ham was one of their victims. The Bees went winless in their previous six games before taking six points from their last two. Last weekend, they shot up to 10th place in the standings.
Due to their elimination from the third round by Arsenal, Brentford had a whole week to recover from and celebrate their victory over Chelsea, who was, ironically, the last team to stop Thomas Frank’s squad from scoring in a Premier League home game, back in October 2022.
Although West Ham’s aggressive and high-pressing team condemned the Gunners to a 32nd year without a piece of February silverware, Brentford lost to Arsenal’s dominance in the EFL Cup. The Gunners were counting their lucky stars that no VAR was in play to pick up on Tomas Soucek tugging Aaron Ramsdale’s shirt before Ben White headed into his own net.
But Mohammed Kudus’s wonderful touch and finish early in the second half raised no doubts at all, and Jarrod Bowen’s drive, though deflected, in the 60th minute sealed the Hammers’ passage to the round of eight, before Martin Odegaard’s injury-time consolation goal.
