Brentford boss Thomas Frank reacts to disappointing draw and snubs Club World Cup
06/04/2025
Gtech Stadium, London, UK
06/04/2025
Gtech Stadium, London, UK
Category
🥇
SportsTranscript
00:00He just came in and said he thought his team deserved to win, I wonder if he thought maybe your team deserved to win?
00:06I think we are all slightly biased as coaches and we definitely look at our side of the elephant.
00:17It's probably difficult to look from the other side of the elephant unless you are on top of it.
00:22I felt we performed well and I felt that we were clearly on top in the first half.
00:29We definitely got momentum, had better opportunities, probably should have scored.
00:33I thought the second half was more even, they were a bit more on the ball.
00:38I thought throughout the game we defended very well.
00:42We limited Chelsea to half a chance for James on a corner, the rest for me was shots outside the box.
00:51Which we were quite happy with.
00:54Then I thought we were really straight going forward, really good to go behind them, really good to run at them.
01:00And for me, maybe I'm slightly biased, I saw five very good chances to us.
01:07If you look at the big chances then probably up there for that.
01:11The Wisse header, the Dams chance, the Brian shot on a transition, the Keane free header on a set piece and of course Sepp's big header.
01:24So I think if there should have been a winner, I think it should have been us.
01:27I thought it was an even game, a good game between two teams.
01:30Very happy with our performance against a top club.
01:34Spent a few quid on players over the last year or two.
01:37And a good manager and their world coach.
01:40I was listening to you there, you said you defended well, but maybe in the second half attacking in general is more difficult.
01:47Do you wish you had maybe more options on the bench?
01:51No, I think that's spot on.
01:54I think if you look at okay quality players they put on the pitch.
01:59I think it's called Neto, I think it's called from Wolves, 50, 60 million.
02:03Called Palmer, maybe one of the best tens in the division.
02:06Jackson, done brilliantly for them.
02:08And what did it go, Gorilla?
02:10One more?
02:12So I think it's fair to say they had a little bit more to shoot with than us.
02:15We have that in our squad, unfortunately some of them are injured.
02:18So I think again if we had something to shoot with I think maybe they would have tipped it even more.
02:22You said it was unfair that Chelsea had to play Thursday for a quick turnaround.
02:27I know they're able to make changes like Madaway came and come again,
02:31you came to the Prime International and come again.
02:33Do you have much sympathy for that?
02:40I think that must be his opinion.
02:46You know, it's football.
02:48I know there are many games and a big programme.
02:54I can just look from our perspective.
02:56We try to deal with it when we have short turnarounds.
03:03I think it does.
03:05To be fair to that, I think it does.
03:07But that happens all the time.
03:09I think once this season we felt that we were the team that had the least rest between games
03:18before we played our quarter-final against Newcastle.
03:21And the furthest away of all the other bigger clubs.
03:24So that definitely got bigger squads.
03:27That was the only time I raced it because I don't think it was fair.
03:30All of them had one more day.
03:32So I think the 24 hours means something.
03:34If we have two days between, we'll deal with it, we'll manage, no problem.
03:36Three days, that's good.
03:39Always, that's not a problem.
03:41Then there's a bigger talk about the amount of games over a year.
03:46Not for us.
03:48But if we play a lot in Europe and go far in the Cups and all that
03:53and need to play the Club World Cup, which is still ridiculous in my opinion,
03:57then I don't understand this too much.
04:00Can I follow on that?
04:02Why is the Club World Cup ridiculous?
04:04You know, it's just another tournament.
04:06So how many wants the Club World Cup?
04:09Do you want it?
04:11No.
04:13It's one of the few, I think.
04:17Will you watch it?
04:19Me? No. I'll enjoy my summer.
04:22No chance.
04:24Does it ruin the competitive balance as well?
04:27Because there's going to be two quads in the Premier League
04:30with over 100 million revenue extra.
04:32Does that concern you?
04:33I think, from my point of view and where we are,
04:37we can't really compete with that sort of money.
04:41The good pitch is actually to compete out here.
04:44So that's what I'm very proud of,
04:46even though they have hundreds of millions more to spend than us.
04:50And if I should say one thing I said,
04:52I think we were closer to winning than they were,
04:54which I'm very proud of.
04:56The President hasn't won a home game.
04:59You're so positive and now you're calling that a question.
05:01I was about to say.
05:03You might be looking inwards sometimes,
05:06but after a performance like that,
05:08it probably doesn't do nothing because you feel
05:10that you were the better team and you had quite conceivably
05:13enough chances to win that game on the day.
05:15I understand why you have to ask the question,
05:19because you haven't won in eight games.
05:21Of course, it's definitely a stat I prefer not to have.
05:25The same way we couldn't win in the beginning of the season
05:27away from home.
05:29We won five on a bounce.
05:31Sometimes it goes up and down.
05:33This season, sometimes it's not.
05:35But it's down to our performances,
05:37which we always look at.
05:39I think we've been really consistent in performance
05:41throughout this season.
05:43We just played two good games against two good teams,
05:46Newcastle and Chelsea.
05:48Everybody expects to fight for the Champions League spot.
05:50Both games should easily have won,
05:53which I'm very, very proud of.
05:56Today, I agree, we performed more than well enough to win.
05:59Same against Everton.
06:01Same against Tottenham.
06:03It's just games that we couldn't edge.
06:16I think they looked good before Sepp got injured.
06:19I think they're a really good, interesting partnership.
06:22I think they performed well today.
06:26I like that.
06:33Sometimes it's a relationship between the two of them.
06:37I think they're very good to communicate
06:40and, how can you say, guide each other,
06:43which is a big thing in the middle of the pitch.
06:55Fine. Solid. Good. Happy.
07:04Do you find it affecting football negatively now?
07:06Do you find it when you play teams who have been in Europe?
07:09There's a lot of talk as well about how this Premier League season
07:12is beginning to feel a little bit flattering.
07:18I don't know what the right thing is,
07:21what is the perfect calendar.
07:24But the intensity in football goes up,
07:28Premier League, European football.
07:30There's no doubt there is a limit
07:33to how good you can perform
07:37or at what intensity you can keep performing at over a year.
07:41That will affect performances.
07:44That will affect players.
07:46That will give more injuries.
07:48Do we need bigger squads then or not?
07:51Or do we need to find a better calendar? I don't know.
07:53One thing for sure, we can't keep adding, adding, adding.
07:56It doesn't work.