{"id":255535,"date":"2025-10-28T00:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T00:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/255535\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T00:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T00:06:08","slug":"keith-andrews-how-brentford-have-evolved-under-new-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/255535\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Andrews: How Brentford have evolved under new manager"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrews’ side have been hitting teams on the break, with their average number of fast breaks more than double what they were under Frank. <\/p>\n

And their four league goals on the counter-attack has already matched the tally throughout last season, with only Bournemouth scoring more so far in 2025-26. <\/p>\n

Mbeumo, Yoane Wissa and Kevin Schade scored a combined 50 goals last season, and while few would expect that total to be challenged this campaign there are promising signs their new-look attack might be very effective.<\/p>\n

In Saturday’s brilliant win over Liverpool, Dango Ouattara, Thiago and Schade all scored in the same game for the first time.<\/p>\n

Thiago, whose first season at the club was wrecked by injury, has scored six goals to give fans hope<\/a> that he will follow in the footsteps of the prolific Ivan Toney, Mbeumo and Wissa.<\/p>\n

“His heart is huge. His spirit, his courage, the adversity he faced last year around his injury, settling into a new country and culture,” said Andrews.<\/p>\n

“I think what he got here was real support and a real belief in him. As a person he really settled into this club. <\/p>\n

“I speak pretty much every day about his game and how we can improve him. He’s a nightmare to play against – that’s the reality of the way he plays the game with such hunger. Sometimes you have to calm him down slightly. He’s proving to be a major player for us, which we thought he would be.”<\/p>\n

Brentford have proudly never been in the bottom three at the end of a Premier League matchweek since they were promoted, a statistic Andrews has made a good start in maintaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrews’ side have been hitting teams on the break, with their average number of fast breaks more than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-255535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}