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Worldwide breaks usually drag on when your membership just isn’t taking part in – and this one is even longer for Brentford followers on condition that we’re the final recreation of the subsequent Premier League weekend.
The match at on Monday night time is already shaping as much as be a possible six-pointer.
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Not solely will or not it’s Nuno Espirito Santo’s first house match answerable for the Hammers, however it is rather possible we may have joined them within the backside three by kick-off – on condition that we’re taking part in after everybody else.
That might be an enormous psychological factor for Keith Andrews to beat, as it will likely be our first time within the relegation zone in our time within the Premier League.
It means much less due to the timing of our fixture, but when we lose to West Ham it may begin to change into a problem, with , and to observe earlier than the subsequent spherical of internationals.
Up till now, Andrews’ squad has been largely injury-free – a welcome change from earlier seasons.
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Nonetheless, this might be about to vary.
Aaron Hickey, who made his first Premier League begin in 700 days towards on the finish of September, was pressured off injured throughout Scotland’s win over Greece final week and missed Sunday’s win over Belarus in consequence.
And Anthony Milambo was stretchered off throughout Netherlands Below-21s’ match with Bosnia and Herzegovina.
A brand new harm disaster is the very last thing we’d like, which is why it was good to seek out Yehor Yarmoliuk within the Ukraine squad for Monday’s match with Azerbaijan after he limped off towards .
It was additionally pleasing to see Mikkel Damsgaard on course for Denmark towards Greece – we’d like him to have his goalscoring boots on for us over the subsequent month.
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