Brentford finally picked up their first away win of the season at the 10th attempt after hammering bottom-of-the-table Southampton 5-0.
The Bees’ last away win in the Premier League came on May 11, when they beat Bournemouth 2-1, and two goals from Bryan Mbeumo, as well as one from Kevin Schade, Keane Lewis-Potter and Yoane Wissa, ended their long drought in style. .
Southampton rooted the back of the table, 10 security problems, as a result. Now they have lost the 3 games in charge of Ivan Juric, granting 8 goals and scoring only one.
Brentford, in retrospect, rightly perceived an opportunity and began to take control of the game from the beginning. So it was not surprising that after only six minutes they were already in advantage.
Mikkel Damsgaard beat Joe Aribo in the ball, led him beyond Lesley Ugochukwu and threw a great pass that Kevin Schade met for the first time to divert Aaron Ramsdale.
That moment would remain a while later. Wissa forced a couple of Ramsdale stops, Christian Norgaard nodded the crossbar and Damsgaard shot at centimeters wide after sweeping the Ugochukwu ball with wonderful skill.
The Bees could not find a way to double their lead, though, and Saints sent a timely reminder of how quickly a game can change just before the break when Aribo teed up Tyler Dibling to lash inches past the post.
But the screw began to turn early at the time in the middle. SEPP Van Den Berg had a moment of dismissal after Wissa’s lack in Jan Bednarek saw Var, before Wissa accelerated when Schade’s loose header put him one by one.
It was 2-0 when Bryan Mbeumo and Wissa intuitively linked up, with the former smashing a lay-off high into the roof of the net – and Mbeumo made it three when he finished from the penalty spot after Ugochukwu’s clumsy foul on Van den Berg.
There was no way back after that, but it got worse for the stricken Saints in second-half stoppage time.
Lewis-Potter took advantage of an untimely slip by Harwood-Bellis to make it four after being picked out by Mbeumo and Wissa added the gloss within two minutes, coolly dispatching his 10th of the season after Yuki Sugawara headed the ball straight into his path.
Southampton manager Ivan Juric to Sky Sports:
“I’m very disappointed with the functionality; Disappointed with the team, with myself. Today we didn’t do anything right. Very bad functionality and there is too much difference between the two teams.
“I had a lot of hope after the West Ham game. I thought we could just compete. After this game, it’s normal that you have questions about your job. It will be a wonderful motivation to replace the stage, but right now I can do it. ” I say I didn’t replace the stage and I’m sorry.
“Maybe in my life I have never played a game in which I felt that there was such a big difference between two teams. Today everything () all () bad. “
Brentford head coach Thomas Frank to Sky Sports:
“It is intelligent not to ask [about the state of the form of Brentford away from home]! We cannot simply win a game at home this season, so they will come more.
“Today’s functionality is fantastic. I’m incredibly proud of the players on the team. It is not an easy game to play. It’s [Southampton] a team that is struggling a bit and they saw clever opportunities against us today, with a new manager, new energy, new ideas.
“We were absolutely ahead in that game from more or less minutes until the 90th minute, and we were also dominant in terms of what we created and we may have scored more goals without problems. We don’t give anything about the culture we have.
“I’ve told the players before that it’s about attitude, attitude, attitude and I’m talking about having confidence in yourself but at the same time being humble; having the confidence that you know that you are smart players and a smart team, but if They are. If you don’t have the humility to put intensity, paint hard, respect them, protect them well, then it will be very difficult.
“For me it is one of the victories and performances of the 4 years of the Premier League. “