Last gasp equaliser at home to Chelsea, all down to my new lucky Bees' tankard
- Philip Ian Murray
- Sep 13
- 2 min read
Updated: Sep 15
With Damsgaard out, I was thinking the worst, but Henderson played a blinder. At 90 mins it was deja vu from a couple of weeks ago away to Sunderland when we were 0-1 up and ended up losing 2-1 in added on time. This time we grabbed an equaliser in the 90+3 minute. Our first chance of the game came inside five minutes, when a long ball from Lewis-Potter was plucked out of the air fantastically by Thiago. The striker cushioned it into the path of Schade, who tried to find some room to shoot but couldn't, and his shot was blocked behind for a corner. Schade got onto the end of the resulting set-piece but headed wide. Nevertheless, it was Schade who opened the scoring in the 35th minute. After a good infield pass by Jensen, Henderson picked up the ball in midfield and sent an exquisite pass over the top to Schade, who squared up Tosin, before finishing past Sanchez. The introduction of Palmer in the second half made the difference for Chelsea and in the 61st minute he picked up a Pedro header unmarked inside the six-yard box and side-footed home (where was Yarmo who should have been marking him?). Almost immediately after the restart Jensen found Schade inside the box and, with his back to goal, the German span and fired towards the far post, which forced Sanchez to scramble and tip it around his right post. Kelleher was the next to come to the rescue for the Bees, when Neto found himself free again. The winger raced into the final third and played the ball across to Palmer, but the Bees keeper got down remarkably well to stop the Chelsea man from bagging his brace. Caicedo got Chelsea's second with five minutes to play. Debutant Garnacho played the ball across the box, but it was only half-cleared (Yarmo again) to the goalscorer, who fired a bullet from the edge of the area into the back of the net. Ouattara came close to an equaliser soon after, when he jinked inside and outside, before his deflected cross almost caught out Sanchez at his near post, who, once again, kept the ball out of the Chelsea net. But our second goal came into stoppage time, when substitute Carvalho latched onto an Ajer flick-on from a Schade long throw, tucking in from close range to secure a point. Of course, we would have lost all three points if it wasn't for me using my new Brentford tankard that I bought a couple of months ago from the Bees' Superstore (although I am puzzled why it didn't work against Nottingham Forest and Sunderland).


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