{"id":668909,"date":"2026-10-29T14:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T14:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/668909\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T14:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T14:30:09","slug":"collins-lays-blame-on-players-after-brentfords-cup-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/668909\/","title":{"rendered":"Collins lays blame on players after Brentford&#8217;s cup exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Collins felt he and his Brentford team-mates did not &#8220;justify&#8221; their starts after they were knocked out of the Carabao Cup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/1028\/1597089-carabao-cup-wrap-reds-and-city-win-on-pens-collins-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in a 3-2 loss to Sunderland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was a first appearance since 5 September for the Republic of Ireland captain, who limped off with a calf strain when the same sides played out a 1-1 Premier League draw.<\/p>\n<p>Collins was happy to make his return, but predominately disappointed by the three goals conceded.<\/p>\n<p>He told club media: &#8220;(I&#8217;m) frustrated. Annoyed. Felt like we were in a good place to do something well in the cup this year, and that performance just let us down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We created our own problems. I don\u2019t think we defended well enough for three goals. Definitely created enough chances to go and win a game, but we only have ourselves to blame for what we conceded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think tonight was a chance for players and for myself to show why we should be playing, starting or playing, and today the starting 11 probably didn\u2019t do enough to justify that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brentford boss Keith Andrews added: &#8220;I\u2019m bitterly disappointed. We wanted to progress in this competition. We\u2019ve taken it very, very seriously with how we\u2019ve approached it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reality is we\u2019ve had a period where we conceded three goals, that\u2019s cost us with poor defending, poor mistakes, poor judgement and we need to learn from them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nathan Collins felt he and his Brentford team-mates did not &#8220;justify&#8221; their starts after they were knocked out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-668909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}