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After winning 30p in the Man City game last week from my £1.00 the time has come to plunge into staking the lot onto another likely 1st half goal and out of form Brentford v Sheffield Wed is the game tonight. Sheffield seems to be a football barren city this season with both teams looking at relegation this year. With this I am not looking at form neccessarily (although, away, Sheffield have only 11 points from 15 games and at home Brentford have 29 points from the same number of games) but the early scoring and conceding goals is more to the fore. Defensivly Sheffield have conceded less than Brentford (32-34) but Brentford have scored 56 goals from 31 games to Sheffields 21. This is a huge void but again not indicative of early goals. If we look at the total goals scored by Brentford in the first half of all games played they total 23 against 33 scored in the second half but if we look at just the home games the ratio is a bit closer (14-15). To take this a step further the teams where Brentford tended to score 1st half goals against were lower positioned teams in the league
QPR 14′
Preston 8′
Luton 14′
Wycombe 9′
two exceptions are prevalent however these being Huddersfield 58′ and Coventry 46′ These are all first goals scored and are in actual fact scored by Brentford even though they lost to Preston 2-4
Sheffield Weds 1st half stats against teams from the top half of the league are as follows,
Norwich 60′ 😦
Swansea 27′ 🙂
Bournemouth 44′ 🙂
Stoke 83′ 😦
Millwall 10 🙂
Bristol 59′ 😦
Blackburn 41′ 🙂
Defensively Sheffield are more than capable of holding a game but with Brentford’s recent form in mind and Sheffield being at the bottom of the league I would hope to see Brentford attacking from the off.
A couple of facts to support this bet are
There has been a first-half goal scored in each of Brentford’s last 7 games in a row.
At each meeting of these two sides since 2017/18 season, whether home or away, there has been at least one 1st half goal in every match.