If at first Igor Thiago doesn’t succeed, he tries, tries, and tries again. Eventually, with half-time looming during Monday’s victory at West Ham, the reward for Thiago’s endeavours arrived. As is the way at the oversized, underutilised bowl Olympic bowl, it took an age for the split-tier pocket of visiting Brentford fans to react. Eventually, they danced.
By then Thiago could have had several goals. Plenty of bustle and hustle had seen him strike the woodwork and force Alphonse Areola into smothering in a manic few minutes around the half hour. His strike, a fifth in eight Premier League appearances, proved decisive, Brentford’s second only arriving via Mathias Jensen with virtually the game’s last kick.
