{"id":450703,"date":"2026-02-28T18:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/450703\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T18:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:23:09","slug":"burnley-v-brentford-confirmed-team-news-michael-kayode-returns-caoimhin-kelleher-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/450703\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnley v Brentford confirmed team news: Michael Kayode returns, Caoimh\u00edn Kelleher out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Head coach Keith Andrews has made five changes to Brentford\u2019s starting XI for this afternoon\u2019s Premier League game against Burnley at Turf Moor (3pm kick-off GMT).Michael Kayode returns after missing the 2-0 home defeat to Brighton and Hove Albion last weekend, replacing the injured Aaron Hickey in the Bees&#8217; side.<\/p>\n<p>Goalkeeper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brentfordfc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/hakon-valdimarsson\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">H\u00e1kon Valdimarsson<\/a> also comes into the team for the absent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brentfordfc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/caoimhin-kelleher\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caoimh\u00edn Kelleher<\/a>. On Kelleher, Andrews stated: &#8220;Caoimh\u00edn\u2019s partner had a baby. We are delighted for them and we wish them well, but he couldn\u2019t play today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The other changes see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brentfordfc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/mikkel-damsgaard\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mikkel Damsgaard<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brentfordfc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/yehor-yarmoliuk\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yehor Yarmoliuk<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brentfordfc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/kevin-schade\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Schade<\/a> replace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brentfordfc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/vitaly-janelt\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vitaly Janelt<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brentfordfc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/jordan-henderson\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Henderson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brentfordfc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/keane-lewis-potter\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keane Lewis-Potter<\/a>, with the latter two named among the substitutes and Janelt unavailable with a knock.<\/p>\n<p>19-year-old defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brentfordfc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/ollie-shield\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ollie Shield<\/a> is named on a Premier League bench for the first time, alongside Brentford B midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brentfordfc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/luka-bentt\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luka Bentt<\/a>, who made his debut in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brentfordfc.com\/en\/news\/article\/match-reports-macclesfield-0-brentford-1-fa-cup-16-02-2026\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FA Cup against Macclesfield<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Burnley (5-2-3): D\u00fabravka; Laurent, Humphreys, Worrall, Est\u00e8ve, Pires; Ward-Prowse, Hannibal; Bruun Larsen, Flemming, Anthony<\/p>\n<p>Subs: Weiss, Walker, Hartman, Ugochukwu, Foster, Florentino, Tchaouna, Ekdal, Barnes<\/p>\n<p>Brentford (4-3-3): Valdimarsson; Kayode, Ajer, van den Berg, Henry; Damsgaard, Yarmoliuk, Jensen; Ouattara, Thiago, Schade<\/p>\n<p>Subs: Balcombe, Pinnock, Henderson, Collins, Lewis-Potter, Donovan, Furo, Bentt, Shield<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head coach Keith Andrews has made five changes to Brentford\u2019s starting XI for this afternoon\u2019s Premier League game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-450703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450703","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=450703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}