Surely this was a guaranteed 3 points with Forest only having played on Thursday in Europe, losing to Braga 1-0 in Portugal (and they missed a pen), our great home form, and us needing to avenge our opening day defeat at their place. However, we were well below par and Forest ran out easy winners 0-2 with breakaway counter attack goals, one in each half. Also, both Damsgaard and Ajer had to be taken off with knee and ankle injuries, respectively. Thiago nearly scored after o

Chelsea won Liam Rosenior's first Premier League match as head coach as they secured a battling home victory against the mighty Bees who were undefeated in their previous six matches. Joao Pedro's powerful first-half strike and Cole Palmer's penalty after the break gave Chelsea a 2-0 win. But they did not have it all their own way, with the Bees having more possession, shots, and shots on target than their hosts. We started brightly and Kevin Schade had our first two attempts

On paper, a 3rd Round FA cup tie away to Sheffield Wednesday should be an odds-on victory. Wednesday are 29 points adrift at the bottom of the Championship having lost 4 and drawn 2 of their last six games, compared with the Bees who have won 4 and drawn 2. Yet, what did Wednesday have to lose and could this be a big banana skin for the Bees? Even with 8 changes and Thiago and Schade rested we did a highly professional job winning 0-2 and it should have been more. In the firs

Sunderland are fighters and despite their recent poor record, they have been playing quite well. So, I wasn't totally optimistic of a win (when am I totally optimistic that the Bees will win?). We needed to avenge our last minute defeat at the Stadium of Light earlier in the season. We did this quite convincingly, 3-0 at the Gtech (but we could have scored 5). Things might have been different had they not missed a pen early in the second half (more about that later). We start

A game I thought we would lose (and it wouldn't have mattered because teams below us lost the previous day), but we played very well for a great 2-4 away victory. Igor Thiago's hat-trick helped us to only our third away win of the season, and we move into 7th place in the PL. The Brazilian forward produced a brilliant display, which started with him heading Tarkowski's early goal-bound header off the line at one end, then putting the Bees in front from Janelt's superb cross o

TF's first visit back to the Gtech sees us play out an unexciting 0-0 draw, with us probably just the better team. The 'experts' on the Griffin Park Grapevine had correctly predicted a draw and I think I am happy with a point. Once I knew Romero and van der Ven were playing , I didn't expect we would get much from the game. We did get the ball in the net in the first half. From a Janelt corner (that had resulted from a great long throw by Kayode), a Collins' header was pushed

Favourites to win this but I am always the pessimist. We won the game comfortably but in the second half when they pulled a goal back they were threatening to get one or two more, until we got our fourth and Schade's hat-trick. Just before that KLP missed an open goal with a header but was flagged offside so it wouldn't have counted, except had it gone in then VAR would have shown that he was onside. After all the Xmas festivities I am too tired to write my report, so I would

This was our chance to allow Wolves their first win of the season, but we played well for nearly all the game, running the midfield and strong in defence. If we had showed a bit more up front we would have won by an even greater margin. In all the games I have seen them play at Molineux, this was the best seat I have ever had. For the second game running Thiago never saw the ball, but it had no effect on the outcome. A testament to the way were were playing is that KA only ma

Goals from a great Cherki first-half strike and a Savinho second-half deflection consign The Bees to a 2-0 defeat to Manchester City in the pouring rain at the Etihad Stadium. We exit the Carabao Cup at the quarter-final stage and head coach Keith Andrews stated: "We played with a lot of courage". Well, we certainly played better than against Leeds even without Henderson, Thiago and Ouattara (AFCON) who were all not in the squad. In the first half, Jensen had a good free kick

Virtually a 6-pointer, at home to Leeds United. Yet the way we played, we didn’t deserve anything. In the first half, we had more possession but created virtually nothing, except a shot from Lewis-Potter that their keeper parried. Leeds had a least three good chances, some when we gave the ball away in our own half. We had a penalty awarded towards the end of the half, but Ouattara was deemed to be just offside before he was ‘fouled’ (IMHO it was never a pen). In the second h