Saturday’s relegation battle sees home side Brentford take to the field against Burnley in the Premier League match at Community Stadium. Kick off set for 12th March 2022 18:00 EAT.
Brentford will be looking to claim another three points after the Beesgrabbed the game by the scruff of its necksecuring a much-needed victory away at Norwich City last weekend. Brentford sits 15th in the table with 27 points from 28 matches. They will now face 18th-placed Burnley, who are six points behind them in the Premier League table.In 5 of their previous 6 games,Brentford have failed to prevent opponents from scoringgiving up 11 goals along the way.
The hosts are hoping for continued winning following a 1-3 Premier League victory versus Norwich City. In that game, Brentford had 41% possession, 10 shots with 6 of them on target. Goals scored by Ivan Toney (32′, 52′, 58′). Norwich City had 15 goals with 7 of them on target and a goal scored by TeemuPukki (92′).
On the other hand, Burnely occupies the 18th place in the Premier League standings with 21points. Burnley are unbeaten in their last six league meetings with the Bees, winning each of the last four in a row, so they will be full of confidence heading to the capital this weekend. In the last five matches Burnley has won in two matches, lost in two and drew in one.
The Clarets will be looking to bounce back from the 0-4 Premier League trashing at the hands of Chelsea in their last game. In that match, Burnley had 27% possession and 6 shots withonly one of them on target. Chelsea got 11 shots with five of them on target and goals by Reece James (47′), Kai Havertz (53′, 55′) and Christian Pulisic (69′).
Brentford vs Burnley head to head
Burnley boasts dominance in the history of this fixture having won in all the four head to head meetings between these two sides since 2003. Brentford is yet to win.
- Burnley 3-1Brentford 30/10/21
- Brentford1-3Burnley 15/01/16
- Burnley1-0Brentford 22/08/15
- Brentford 0-3 Burnley 25/01/03
Home
- Norwich 1-3 Brentford
- Brentford 0-2 Newcastle
- Arsenal 2-1 Brentford
- Brentford 0-0 Crystal Palace
- Man City 2-0 Brentford
Away
- Burnley 0-4 Chelsea
- Burnley 0-2 Leicester
- Crystal Palace 1-1 Burnley
- Burnley 1-0 Tottenham
- Brighton 0-3 Burnley
Brentford team news
Christian Norgaard and Kristoffer Ajer are both injury doubts and will be assessed ahead of kickoff while Josh Dasilva will serve the second of a three-game suspension.
Burnley team news
The Clarets will be without Ben Mee, Johann Berg Gudmundsson, Matej Vydra, Erik Pieters and Dale Stephens due to injuries.
Prediction and odds
We predict a closely-fought this weekend at Brentford Community Stadium, though both sides will fancy their chances of claiming maximum points we are backing a draw at the end of this fixture.
- Draw
- Double Chance 1/2
- Both teams to score (No)
