By Alessandro Schiavone Igor Thiago's dream to be called up for Brazil's World Cup squad has just become a bit harder to realize. And not only because the uncapped Samba star drew two consecutive blanks against the likes of Chelsea and Nottingham Forest. Sixteen goals in 23 Premier League are still the stuff dreams are made of for someone who was still playing in Bulgaria's top-flight a couple of years ago. But Endrick might have just stolen a march on the Brentford striker a

Exclusive by Capital Football Reporter Ahead of the trip across west London to face Chelsea today, Capital Football have caught up exclusively with Michael Kayode. Here is what he said. Michael, after your convincing win over Sunderland last week, Brentford are fifth against all expectations in the Premier League standings. Can you stay there until the end of the season? “We hope we can stay up there. There’s still a big chunk of the season to be played but we’re doing well i

Exclusive by Football Reporter at Gtech Community Stadium Granit Xhaka was far from impressed with  Sunderland's showing in their 3-0 trashing by Brentford. More than the defeat itself it was the manner of their slow degradation and overall attitude that irked the legendary Swiss. At 1-0 down following Igor Thiago's opener, French magician Enzo Le Fée missed a crucial penalty that could have killed Brentford's momentum and sowed the seeds for the Black Cats' turnaround. But c

By Capital Football Reporter at Gtech Community Stadium Premier League Matchday 21 Brentford 3-0 Sunderland Goals : Thiago 30', Thiago 65', Yarmolyuk 73' (B) "Ronaldo or Romario? No, Cristiano Ronaldo is my idol!", grinning two-goal hero Igor Thiago proudly told Capital Football after Brentford trashed Sunderland. And while his statement did not bat an eyelid among the present reporters in the mixed zone after the game given the Portuguese superstar's standing in England, it

By Alessandro Schiavone at BayArena, Leverkusen Bundesliga Matchday 12 Bayer Leverkusen 1-2 Borussia Dortmund Goals : Anselmino 41', Adeyemi 65', Kofane 83' From the highest of heights to the lowest of lows in the space of four days. From pulling off the unlikeliest of victories away at Man City on Tuesday night to crashing to a 2-1 home defeat at the hands of Borussia Dortmund. And with it, any hopes of staying hot on runaway Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich's heels with the

By Alessandro Schiavone at Stade de Luxembourg Luxembourg 0-2 Germany Goals: Woltemade 49', 69' (G) Less than a week after scoring in Brentford's 3-1 win over Nick Woltemade's Newcastle United, Kevin Schade was lucky to have him as the Magpies behemoth netted a double to save Germany's blushes in a 2-0 win over Group A basement side Luxembourg. It was an unconvincing victory with the Germans making hard work of it all in the first-half when the Brentford winger was still on t

By Alessandro Schiavone in Leverkusen Bayer Leverkusen 2-7 Paris Saint-Germain Goals: Pacho, Doué, Kvaratskhelia, Doué, Mendes, Dembelé, Vitinha (PSG), Garcia, Garcia (BL) At 4-1 down, Bayer Leverkusen were already toast when Mark Flekken played his part in his side's worst defeat since a 6-0 mauling by Schwarz-Weiss Essen in 1954. Pillaged by the likes of Liverpool, Arsenal and Sunderland in last summer's transfer window, Leverkusen were unable to deal with the Champions Lea

By Alessandro Schiavone at Craven Cottage Fulham came from behind to erase a Joshua King cock-up and trash Brentford 3-1 in the west...

By Alessandro Schiavone Capital Football have interviewed ex-Brentford player Fredrik Hammar. Now at Belgian side KV Mechelen, the Swede...

By Alessandro Schiavone By Alessandro Schiavone in Brussels Anderlecht 1-1 AEK Athenes (First-leg of the Conference League playoffs)...