Brentford head coach Keith Andrews provided an update on top goalscorer Igor Thiago ahead of the Bees\u2019 Premier League game against Tottenham Hotspur on New Year\u2019s Day (8pm kick-off GMT, live on Sky Sports). Thiago has scored 11 goals in 18 Premier League appearances this season, and Andrews praised the forward for playing through some pain in recent weeks. <\/p>\n
\u201cThiago<\/a> had a bit of an issue, but nothing to do with his injury last season at all,\u201d said Andrews<\/a>.<\/p>\n “This time of year takes its toll, and we need to be careful with some players at times.<\/p>\n \u201cHe showed a lot of bravery and courage to play against Wolves and gave us that platform.<\/p>\n \u201cHe played really, really well against Wolves and gave us that base to win the game. Players fed off him: Keane Lewis-Potter<\/a> with his goals and Kev [Schade]<\/a> was looking dangerous that day.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s nothing too much to worry about. He\u2019s shown a lot of courage and put the team before himself going into the last couple of games.\u201d<\/p>\n Andrews added: \u201cAgain, this time of year, naturally you pick up little bits and bobs. The games are coming quite frequently. <\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re still a couple of days out so we\u2019ll see how everyone is tomorrow and make decisions about the team.\u201d<\/p>\n Defender Sepp van den Berg<\/a> will be assessed having missed Brentford\u2019s 4-1 win over Bournemouth<\/a> due to a knock. <\/p>\n Josh Dasilva<\/a> (knee ligament) remains sidelined, while F\u00e1bio Carvalho<\/a> and Antoni Milambo <\/a>will both miss the rest of the campaign due to ACL injuries.<\/p>\n Frank Onyeka<\/a> and Dango Ouattara<\/a> are also unavailable due to their involvement in the Africa Cup of Nations with Nigeria and Burkina Faso<\/a>, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brentford head coach Keith Andrews provided an update on top goalscorer Igor Thiago ahead of the Bees\u2019 Premier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-343173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}