Brentford 4-3 Ipswich Town: Highlights, man of the match, stats...

After wasting a 2-0 lead and losing 4-3 in the Premier League on Saturday afternoon, Kieran McKenna and Ipswich

Town left their trip to the Gtech Community Stadium in embarrassment.

Just before the half, Sammie Szmodics opened the scoring after Kalvin Phillips played towards George Hirst from his

own half. Hirst then teeted up Szmodics, who scored from the edge of the penalty area into the bottom corner.

Hirst doubled the lead just three minutes later when he chipped the ball over Mark Flekken after Conor

Chaplin played him through on goal on the right side of the box, but Brentford halved the deficit in the 43rd

minute when Yoane Wissa directed the ball into the back of the net from close range.

Harry Clarke attempted a sliding block to stop Wissa from scoring a brace as he sprinted in between the Blues’

defensive line, but instead dragged the ball across the line, putting the Bees back on equal terms in first-half

stoppage time.

Shortly after halftime, Bryan Mbeumo gave the home team the lead with a penalty kick. Although Liam Delap

believed he had given his team a point with a header from a cross from Leif Davis, Mbeumo added a winner in the

96th minute to give the Bees a well-earned three points.

The result means that Brentford climb to ninth in the table and end the day with 13 points and have now won two

of their last three matches in the league, while Ipswich are yet to win in the Premier League after nine games, and

linger in 17th place with just four points.

Phillips deserves credit for his role in his side’s first goal, with his pass breaking Brentford defensive lines, while

Ipswich as a whole did well to draw the hosts upfield during the build up to the game’s second goal.

Brentford’s first goal was scored from close range by Vitaly Janelt after Keane Lewis-Potter brilliantly drove past the

Blues’ defence and passed to him.

Clarke, who was sent off after receiving two bookings for fouling Lewis-Potter for Mbeumo’s penalty and again in the

69th minute, was forced to concede an own goal by Wissa’s lightning-fast pace.

Mbeumo’s curled delivery into the box in the 96th minute eluded everyone and bounced into the net, but keeper

Arijanet Muric will be disappointed that he could have done more to stop the goal. Delap believed he had snatched a

point in the 86th minute after Davis crossed from deep on the left into the penalty area.

Brentford 4-3 Ipswich Town: Highlights, man of the match, stats as Mbeumo, Wissa star, McKenna humiliated