Keith Andrews had described Brentford’s recent rise up the table as a “natural evolution” resulting from his players “constantly building relationships and understanding” with one another \u2013 but the Bees were horribly disjointed once Mateta had opened the scoring.<\/p>\n
Passes began to go astray for the visitors as the home side, buoyed by their opener, sought to press home their advantage before the interval.<\/p>\n
The Bees then fell apart completely early in the second half and could have had few complaints had Sarr given Palace a 3-0 lead, moments after they had gone 2-0 ahead.<\/p>\n
Brentford’s first effort on target came six minutes later, but Kristoffer Ajer’s tame, close-range header was easily held by Henderson, who was called into action only once more \u2013 by Nelson \u2013 before the full-time whistle.<\/p>\n
Andrews’ side have exceeded expectations in the Premier League this season but have now lost four of their five top-flight away games under the Irishman, having lost only one of their final 11 league matches on the road under Thomas Frank.<\/p>\n
Things aren’t about to get any easier for Brentford on their travels, with away games against Brighton, Arsenal, Tottenham and Manchester City to come before Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keith Andrews had described Brentford’s recent rise up the table as a “natural evolution” resulting from his players…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-266483","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\/266483","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=266483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}