The GTech Community stadium welcomed back Nigeria’s own Frank Onyeka on Saturday afternoon, in a premier league game against Liverpool.
The coach, Thomas Frank had opted for a 3-5-2 formation with Christian Norgaard, Mathias Jensen and Vitaly Janelt forming the crux of the midfield.
Brentford started strong with chances coming their way courtesy of Neal Maupay, but they would not find the back of the net. Liverpool took advantage of their opposition’s lapses with a well executed counter attack that ended with Darwin Nunez chipping over goalkeeper Mark Flekken.
Liverpool also suffered two injuries in the first half as Curtis Jones and Diogo Jota did not complete the first 45.
The second half was more composed from Liverpool, and they settled in with another goal as Alexis MacAlister finished off from a Mohammed Salah pass. The Egyptian would get a goal of his own in the 68th minute, as the Brentford defence could not sort out Cody Gakpo’s header.
Frank Onyeka came on in the 63rd minute, and he got booked for a challenge nine minutes ago coming on. That would not stop the nigerian tank from putting a defence splitting pass that ended with Ivan Toney pulling one back for the Londoners.
Liverpool added the icing on the cake with four regulation minutes remaining as Cody Gakpo put himself amongst the goals.
Liverpool ran out 4-1 winners against Brentford to kickoff the premier league weekend, and put themselves 5 points ahead before Arsenal and Manchester City kick a ball.
