this round (of negotiations)
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At home to Brentford.
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Lined up in 433 with Van Dijk, Matip, Tsimikas, Arnold in defense, Gakpo, Endo, Szoboszlai in midfield, and Salah, Jota, Darwin Núñez up front.
Brentford lined up in 352 with defenders Collins, Pinnock, Mee, wingbacks Ajer, Roerslev, midfielders Jesen, Nørgaard, Janelt, and strikers Mbeumo and Wissa.
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Only five minutes into the game, Brentford took advantage of the free kick, Mee rushed to the outside of the box right cross, the center of the Arnold clearance was not good, the back of the Pinnock a seemingly pass like a shot, the left side of the Janelt almost shoveled the goal, and the original cross Wissa almost header directly into the goal!
About 20 minutes into the game, the situation began to clear, Endo as a back has been up to the distribution of the ball, although not directly out of the killing pass, but his distribution of the ball is very stable, as long as there is some space in front of him, he can mostly send to the feet of his teammates and teammates to get the ball is more comfortable, and Arnold in the defense made two mistakes, are a bit dangerous, Brentford seems to be the tactical setup! on long passes and then letting the strikers get the ball and impact, but in reality buying time for those three main midfielders to get up and get space to shoot, also playing
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Possible space at the backside on counterattacks
26 minutes past the hour
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From a corner kick, Van Dijk was in the center of the pitch to head the ball, but it was blocked by the keeper, and then Darwin Núñez was offside with an inverted shot.
Brentford launched a counterattack in the 31st minute, Mbeumo received a long ball directly in front of the field and was about to take a one-touch shot, luckily Alisson blocked it, otherwise it would have been a breakthrough, and then in the 32nd minute, Brentford launched another counterattack, Wissa flicked a ball to Nørgaard in the center of the field and it was blocked, otherwise he could have been able to get the one-touch shot without being offside, but he was not able to get a one-touch shot.
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Not having a well-positioned back four to fill in is a glaring weakness that Brentford are exploiting
At the 38:00 mark, in the midfield battle, Arnold got the ball and sent it straight to Darwin Núñez, who reacted quickly and flicked the ball to Salah on the right side, who came up with a 12-yard shot from the right side to the far corner of the net.
afterwards
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The offense started to flow, and it was clear to see that Darwin Núñez had been trying to run forward to get a shot on goal at the start of the first half, and at this point in time the passes were failing, and Brentford was able to launch a terrifying counterattacking threat
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But after 30 minutes, Darwin Núñez had a clear change, he started to withdraw from the front line and leaned towards Salah, he was trying to play the ball to Salah, which resulted in a goal right away, and then a couple of threatening attacks as well, Darwin Núñez seemed to have a good understanding only with Salah, and he didn't have this kind of synchronization with the rest of the team, but he was able to create a goal and a big threat just by this. Brentford were forced to back off in defense, the number of long passes they were able to launch became less frequent, and the positions the two strikers were able to get into became poorer, and in the first half they were able to score in the first half.
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Ended 1-0
At the start of the second half, Brentford brought on Onyeka and replaced Janelt in order to strengthen the delivery of the ball to the strikers, and in the 60th minute Brentford had a pretty impressive attacking streak, with Mbeumo almost getting a solo goal, and Nørgaard and Wissa both having good chances on goal.
61st hour
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Concentrating their firepower, the four attacked from the left and the attention of the Brentford defense was drawn to that area, Jota tucked the ball in beautifully on the box line, Tsimikas chased down the cross on the byline and Salah stood on the right side of the pitch from seven yards to easily tip the ball in to put the
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We've got an insurance score of 2-0.
Brentford came close to scoring at 65, again Nørgaard took a corner and kicked what looked like a pass directly inside from 11 yards, only for Wissa to follow up and grab the goal, Brentford's command of the position was very good, especially on corners or free kicks, and threatened on almost every occasion
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