Brentford Head Coach, Thomas Frank believes that his team earned “a fine point” in their 1-1 draw against West Ham.
Bryan Mbeumo volleyed the Bees ahead after 38 seconds but Tomas Soucek hit back with a 54th minute equaliser for West Ham, which saw the Hammers avoid suffering a Premier League defeat at the Gtech Community Stadium for the first time.
“I think we were the better football side for 75 minutes of the match,” commented Frank, who was pleased with the performance.
“West Ham had a spell for 15 minutes at the start of the second half where they were on top and they probably out-muscled us a bit. We didn’t handle that well enough.
“Besides that, I’m very pleased with the performance. We constantly tried to win the match and, after the equaliser, we went on top and it was us that went for the second goal.”
Frank proceeded to acknowledge that he was missing nine players and had to substitute Kevin Schade during the match, which meant that the draw was a positive outcome.
“And when you look at the context that we’re missing nine first-team players – you can say six of those are starters or close to that – and then we had to sub Kevin [Schade] off on 65 minutes. So we had four offensive players out, at that stage.
“It’s a fine point – it’s not a good point – it’s a fine point.”
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