Brentford boss Frank provides replace on ‘very irritating’ information
Brentford boss Frank provides replace on ‘very irritating’ information


Brentford supervisor Thomas Frank has stated in-form ahead Yoane Wissa is more likely to be out till November with an damage he sustained in a heavy problem from Manchester Metropolis’s Mateo Kovacic.

Wissa scored the quickest objective of the Premier League season to this point to present the Bees a shock lead inside the primary minute at Etihad Stadium on Saturday, just for his run of three objectives and one help within the prime flight to return to an abrupt finish when he was pressured off at half-time.

“Wissa is, sadly, not excellent news,” stated Frank, who described how Kovacic’s “reckless deal with” had been “simply going via the person from behind” after Brentford’s 2-1 defeat.

“It seems to be like an damage that will likely be a few months. It’s very irritating. We talked about our many accidents final yr. I hope I don’t have to speak an excessive amount of about it this yr – I perhaps have already got.”

Yoane Wissa damage

“Wissa had an excellent season final yr and he has began the season very effectively with three objectives in 4 video games,” added Frank.

“That’s an excellent quantity. He’s simply been essential for us and that’s going to depart a gap. However, once more, I’ll discover a answer.”

Kovacic was booked by referee Darren Bond, with Frank stopping wanting saying the midfielder ought to have been despatched off.

Brentford accidents

Brentford misplaced the fifth-most days of availability throughout all of their gamers to damage throughout 2023-24, based on Premier Accidents figures.

Left-back Rico Henry suffered the third-longest absence of any participant within the division and is but to return from the knee damage he sustained final September, whereas Bryan Mbeumo, Kevin Schade, Aaron Hickey, Josh DaSilva and Mikkel Damsgaard have been among the many different gamers dominated out for elements of the marketing campaign.

Midfielder Mathias Jensen and ahead Gustavo Nunes have been amongst their damage record for the reason that begin of the season, and £30 million club-record signing Igor Thiago is just not anticipated to return till the tip of 2024 following surgical procedure on a knee damage he collected throughout pre-season.

Igor Thiago ‘unfortunate’

“We have been unfortunate with Igor, unfortunate with Hickey,” rued Frank. “We then had two contact accidents with Mathias Jensen and Yoane Wissa, in order that’s very irritating.

“[Wissa] will depart an enormous gap. All people was saying we purchased Igor Thiago to interchange Ivan [Toney] – however we nonetheless had Wissa; we purchased Igor Thiago to construct the squad and supply competitors within the squad.”

Brentford are ninth after an encouraging begin to the season, beating Crystal Palace and Southampton at dwelling and dropping at Metropolis and Liverpool.





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