A Swarm Of Bees - The New Beehive (EP 14)

Starting the first season in Premier League for more than 70 years and we also have a new home! Hopefully the Brentford Community Stadium is about to see great wins for his team! Tough fixures for August, and even tougher when you're coming from the Championship. We need to fight for our place in the league and also do it without breaking our entertaining style of play! We will have to see if we will need to adjust our play to the other teams. Let the fun begin!
Burnley vs. Brentford

Our first match in the Premier League wasn't exactly a classic, but a point at Turf Moore is a success for me. Really dull match, I started with the boys that gave us the title run last year with not a single new signing on the pitch. Boring match with only a few chances for both teams. We defended really well and took the point! Pontus Jansson with the POTM award.
Fun Fact: Chris Wood apparently had won Top Goalscorer in the Premier League for the last season with 23 goals, what a time to be alive!
The first match at our new home - The Brentford Community Stadium was against non other than the mighty team of Liverpool. Great spectacle for the fans, but tough to watch for me.
Brentford vs. Liverpool

Aggh! We almost beat them! Great show for the fans as the first match at the new stadium and will be remembered forever! We open up the score in the 11 minute with a great goal by our right back Henrik Dalsgaard and the fans went crazy! Nobody expect us to perform like this! In the 67 minute Alfa Semedo does the thing that was brought into our squad, to terrorize our opponents, how ever he does it in our own box - penalty! RAYA makes a save and the a second one after the follow up! The stadium is shaking! However in the last minutes of the game Firmino scores, but the fans are happy! They saw us giving one of the best teams out there a proper fight! Our goalkeeper (Raya) wins POTM, however all of the defense was really good.
Debuts for Semedo, Andersson & Pearson!
Brentford vs. West Ham

We needed something from that match as our next fixture is against Manchester City and this was the best moment for us to make our first win in the Premier League. The positive thing was that we dominated the whole game having so many more chances than our opponents, but they get 2 quick goals and we take the L. Tried to push for a draw in the end, but only managed to score once by Bryan Mbeumo. Our attackers don't score the goals that we need! Frustrated about the outcome, we were a lot better, but this happens often in the great game of football.
Next we went against Luton Town in the EFL Second round fixture and we needed to win and gain some belief in ourselves.
Brentford vs. Luton Town

Finally we win! There is big difference between championship & premier league sides and you can see it yourself. A lot of the new guys get their first starts in the club. Isak scores his first for the club and so does Thilo Kehrer! Big game for Fosu who gets, 1 goal, 1 assist & POTM. There was no chance for the opponents as they even scored with one of their two shots on goal. Great performance, we need to play like this in the league as well. (Actually we played well in all 3 matches, just didn't get the wins).
Again - no luck in the draw and in the next round we will play against Liverpool. However they escaped once from the defeat against us, maybe next time we will punish them!
Manchester City vs. Brentford

Almost the same match as the previous (with Luton), but this time we were in the shoes of the loosing team. Tried to change the scheme and play with 3 center backs, but we received two goals in the first 30 minutes and this plan is out of the window. We took the game too defensively and were punished because of that. This time we deserved to loose. In the final minutes Isak gets another goal for the club, but Watkins is nowhere near the form of the last season. We need his goals.
Player of the Month

DAVID RAYA
1 clean sheet, 1 saved penalty and two great performances against Burnley & Livepool are enough for our goalkeeper to win the award. He has potential to be great keeper and never let us down in the whole time I'm in charge of the team. This year we will need him more than ever because of the position we are in.
Maybe the other player who performed okay was Bryan Mbeumo, but again the main player from last season need to do better!
LEAGUE TABLE & VERDICT

Just two points from the first 4 matches and we are in the bottom of the table with the other teams that came from Championship. Actually I'm not so disappointed as we get 1 point from Liverpool and played against Man City but we need to turn our chances into goals, and our good performance into wins. It's my mistake that I've tried to change the scheme against City and tried new things in the match. Hopefully we win our first games next month as we have 3 really crucial games in September and one cup match against Liverpool. In the final day of the transfer window we snap Cameron Bortwhick-Jackson for free, just to sell him in a year maybe.

Thanks for reading once again & hope you enjoy it.
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