Wolverhampton

vs

Brentford

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Recent meetings

Wolves (home)

• Wolves are in dreadful form, having lost five consecutive matches and failed to pick up a point in their last five Premier League outings.
• The last three results, 0-1 at Nottingham Forest, 1-4 against Manchester United and 1-2 at home to Arsenal, are a bad omen for this clash.

Brentford (away)

• Brentford are in mixed form with one win, one draw and three defeats from their last five in the league, but their latest results don’t tell the whole story.
• The Bees have had a tough set of fixtures, which included a 2-0 defeat at Arsenal, 2-0 loss at Tottenham and a 1-1 home draw with Leeds.

Key Players

• Keith Andrews has kept the direct, high-intensity style of his predecessor Thomas Frank and added a few set-piece moments and more compactness to his team.
• The Bees are prolific when they can get into transition, although have become a bit too easy to turn over this season and have had to rely on the clinical finishing of Igor Thiago, who has scored 11 Premier League goals this season.
• The Brazilian is in red-hot form with three goals in his last five appearances and can cause havoc for Wolves, who are playing from a pragmatic back three system and have been more adventurous in pressing from the front under Edwards.

Betting Insights

• Brentford are the most likely winner when they travel to face bottom-ranked Wolves at Molineux on Saturday, but the Bees are too short to back at 2.12 when the hosts are such long shots at 3.76.
• Brentford are 15th in the table with 20 points from 16 games, while Wolves sit bottom with two points from 16 matches.
• Wolves have conceded 21 goals in eight home Premier League matches, and that will probably be music to the ears of the Bees, who score an average of 1.7 goals per visit in their last five trips to Molineux.
• However, with both teams averaging more than one goal per game conceded, the Both Teams To Score market looks more attractive at 1.75 than either of the team odds.

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