{"id":451545,"date":"2026-03-01T06:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T06:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451545\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T06:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T06:38:09","slug":"brentford-keith-andrews-leads-bees-closer-to-europe-with-4-3-win-at-burnley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451545\/","title":{"rendered":"Brentford: Keith Andrews leads Bees closer to Europe with 4-3 win at Burnley"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brentford<\/a> and Burnley<\/a> produced a Premier League classic, with the Bees coming out 4-3 winners in an edge-of-the-seat thriller.<\/p>\n

They threw away a three-goal lead before midfielder Mikkel Damsgaard’s 93rd-minute goal helped them edge past Burnley<\/a>, but that was far from the end of the drama at Turf Moor.<\/p>\n

Clarets striker Ashley Barnes thought he had equalised in the 98th minute, only for the goal to be ruled out by the video assistant referee (VAR) for a handball which needed four minutes and two different angles to be confirmed.<\/p>\n

It was not the straightforward win that Brentford<\/a> manager Keith Andrews would have hoped for to celebrate signing a new contract until 2032 this week.<\/p>\n

“It had a bit of everything,” Andrews told BBC Match of the Day. “The neutrals will be very pleased, but it’s far too much drama for my liking.”<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, the gritty victory<\/a> has Brentford<\/a> sitting seventh in the table, trailing fifth-placed Liverpool<\/a> by five points.<\/p>\n

With only 10 games left of their season, it means Brentford<\/a> are closer than ever to playing in Europe for the first time.<\/p>\n

“Definitely they can start dreaming about European football,” former England women’s captain Steph Houghton told BBC Football Focus.<\/p>\n

“They believe in who they are and there is a real humility about them.”<\/p>\n

Former Arsenal<\/a> and England defender Martin Keown said: “It’s the next step. Five points away from the top five is amazing. Who would have predicted that?”<\/p>\n

The remarkable position Brentford<\/a> find themselves is credit to Andrews, who – it is easy to forget – is in his debut season as a manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brentford and Burnley produced a Premier League classic, with the Bees coming out 4-3 winners in an edge-of-the-seat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-451545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451545","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=451545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}