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'We ran out deserved winners'

'We ran out deserved winners'

BBC News18-02-2025
Brentford's 1-0 win at West Ham on Saturday continued our remarkable record against them since we were promoted from the Championship four years ago.We have now won six and drawn one of our eight Premier League matches with the Hammers, our best record against any of the 13 clubs who we have played in each of our four seasons in the league.The game should have been over by half-time because as well as our goal, we had two other efforts disallowed, hit the post and missed other decent chances.We resisted a West Ham rally inspired by their half-time substitutes early in the second half and, while you are always worried that something will go wrong when you only have a one-goal lead to defend, we ran out deserved winners.It was also our first 1-0 Premier League victory since beating Manchester City by the same score on the final day of the 2022-23 season - 63 games ago.And it was the first time any of our league matches have finished 1-0 since our defeat at Everton towards the end of last season.On another note, a 15:00 Saturday game in London is always one to look forward to - but we do not officially know when our next similar kick-off anywhere will be.Of our next five matches, three are evening games and the other two are 17:30 kick-offs on Saturdays.We are scheduled to host Chelsea in a west London derby at 15:00 on Saturday, 5 April, but the TV selections have not been made yet so that - and our subsequent games that month - could still be moved.Find more from Ian Westbrook at Beesotted podcast, external
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