A great game but it was so close to all three points. Enjoy the rest of your evening, particularly to all the City fans travelling back from London, you were brilliant as always tonight. We will back on Sunday with another away trip, this time at Ipswich. đź’™
It’s not about frustration. We were close. We had chances, they had chances. We didn’t take the right decisions when we could run. The way they play with man marking you can run but our decision making was not the best. Between 2-1 and 2-2 was really good. They put a lot of players in the box for crosses and they are stronger in the box in that department.
We just looked tired at the end, the last 20 minutes. We looked a bit leggy, they put the pressure on and put the ball into the box. I don’t think we coped with the physicality at the end.
Obviously it’s one of the toughest places to come as well. They give you a different challenge if you like. Man-to-man, long balls, physicality. It’s a challenging place to come.
I was happy with the performance up until we went 1-0 up. It was a bit disappointing after that. We kind of let our form slip. Giving easy balls away. It’s something to learn from and move onto the next game.
Possession: Brentford 45%-55% City
Shots on target: Brentford 6-8 City
Shots off target: Brentford 9-11 City
Hit the woodwork: Brentford 0-1 City
Corners: Brentford 4-5 City
Offsides: Brentford 4-0 City
Fouls: Brentford 4-4 City
Yellow cards: Brentford 0-0 City
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A great game but not the result we wanted with City heading for victory with 12 minutes remaining.
Brentford threaten to score a winner. Mbeumo has a shot, it's going wide but Ake heads it away.
That's a suckerpunch. There's been a huge amount of chances for both sides but we could have killed this game off.
Norgard has equalised for Brentford - a header that Ortega can't quite keep it out.
We've got another five minutes to get through.
CommentaryReporting by Jonathan Smith @mancity