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Brentford lost 2-0 at Brighton on Sunday 8 November after Igor Thiago was shown a straight red card, BBC Sport reports. Brentford were down to ten men for the defeat. Brentford are 8th in the Premier League on 14 points. Their league record is three wins, five draws and two losses, with 16 scored and 11 conceded, a goal difference of plus five. Brentford beat Nottingham Forest 2-0 at home on Saturday 31 October. Keith Andrews, the Brentford manager, spoke to BBC Sport after the Brighton game. Brentford have drawn five of their ten league games, which is what holds their points total down. Igor Thiago has four goals and two assists in all competitions. Brentford host Everton at the Gtech Community Stadium on Monday 23 November at 3:00 pm ET.
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Brentford arrived at the Gtech Community Stadium on Saturday carrying a shape that had not fully convinced — one league win across the previous month, a Carabao Cup loss to Sunderland four days earlier — and the 2-0 home win over Nottingham Forest, per BBC Sport, was the result that settled a question the schedule had been asking. Igor Thiago's finish, his fourth goal across Premier League and Carabao Cup this season, arrived in the 76th minute, assisted by Jaidon Anthony, who now has five assists in those competitions — and the combination between them is the clearest evidence Brentford have that their attacking roles are functioning as Keith Andrews needs them to. Nottingham Forest's hierarchy, per Sky Sports, have rallied behind their own manager's sharp self-criticism after the defeat, which tells you something about how the result landed across the city; Forest slipping to 19th puts the win in sharper relief for the table, where Brentford sit sixth on 14 points, one above Everton and five behind Sunday's opponents Brighton. At American Express Stadium, they face a Brighton side third on 19 points with 24 goals scored in nine games — a standard that will test whether Saturday's shape was a resolution or only a reprieve.
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# Brentford beat Forest to end winless stretch before Brighton trip
Brentford returned to winning ways with a 2-0 home victory over Nottingham Forest on Saturday, October 31. The result came after four matches without a win across the league and cup fixtures, a stretch that included defeats to Sunderland and Liverpool and draws with Hull City and Aston Villa. The next Premier League match is away to Brighton on Sunday, November 8.
The BBC's match report identifies Igor Thiago's second-half goal as part of the Forest victory. That is a specific attacking contribution in a game which also ended with Brentford keeping a clean sheet.
The league position is stronger than the recent winless run might suggest. Brentford are sixth with 14 points from nine Premier League matches, having won three, drawn five and lost just one. Their 16 goals scored and nine conceded give them a plus-seven goal difference. The five draws have kept points accumulating even when victories have been difficult to secure.
The immediate sequence before Forest shows why the win mattered. Brentford lost 3-2 away to Sunderland in the Carabao Cup on October 28, drew 1-1 at Hull on October 25, lost 2-1 at home to Liverpool on October 17 and drew 2-2 away to Aston Villa on October 10. Those results span competitions, so the cup defeat should not be treated as another Premier League loss.
Thiago has four goals and two assists in 12 appearances across all competitions. Jaidon Anthony has one goal and five assists in 12, while Kevin Schade has three goals in 11 and Callum Wilson three in nine. The spread of contributions offers several attacking names without establishing a future lineup.
Kick-off against Brighton & Hove Albion is at 9 a.m. ET on Sunday, November 8. In the table, Liverpool are directly above on 15 points and Everton directly below on 13.
Brighton will host Brentford at the American Express Stadium on November 8. The hosts sit third in the league with 19 points, five more than Brentford after the same number of matches. Saturday's victory has steadied Brentford's recent results, but the trip to a top-three opponent will provide a different measure of progress.
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Brentford beat Nottingham Forest 2-0 at the Gtech Community Stadium on Saturday, the 2-0 home win over Nottingham Forest giving them, BBC Sport reported, their first win in five. Igor Thiago scored in the second half. It followed a 2-3 away loss to Sunderland in the Carabao Cup and a 1-1 away draw at Hull City, where BBC Sport reported Dango Ouattara's equaliser earned the point.
Brentford are sixth in the Premier League with 14 points from 3 wins, 5 draws, 1 loss and a goal difference of +7. Thiago leads the club with 4 goals and 2 assists, Jaidon Anthony has created 5 goals, and Kevin Schade and Callum Wilson have 3 goals each. BBC Sport reported the manager praised the side's maturity.
Next is a trip to Brighton & Hove Albion at the American Express Stadium on Sunday 8 November. Brighton are third with 19 points and have conceded only 7 goals.
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