HUMBLE BEE

Marcondes: Goal was a dream and we’re confident going into run-in

EMILIANO MARCONDES hailed his stunning first Championship goal a dream come true.

Brentford’s Dane with the Brazilian name pulled pitiful Sheffield Wednesday apart with a first-half goal and assist that helped end a run of five games without a win.

His thunderous strike from the edge of the box put the Bees 2-0 up on 18 minutes.

It was hit with all the power of a man unleashing the frustrations of an injuryplagued two years since joining from Nordsjaelland in January 2018.

Marcondes went on loan to the Bees’ Danish sister club Midtjylland last August to regain confidence after serious foot and ankle injuries. Now he is back, the son of a Danish father and

Brazilian mother is determined to play a big part in the fourth-placed Bees’ promotion push.

Marcondes admitted: “It has been frustrating at times with two major injuries not making it any easier. But I have been fighting and I think it’s well deserved that I am back now and scoring.

“It was a good strike. It is something I have been practicing a lot. It was really nice to see it go past the keeper and into the net.

“It is something you dream about when you do it in training.”

The Bees travel to thirdplaced Fulham on Friday before hosting secondplaced West Brom the following Tuesday.

Marcondes (right) added: “Everybody has confidence in the squad, which is really important as we go into the final nine games.”

Brentford’s fast start against the Owls was rewarded when Josh Dasilva thumped in the opener from 10 yards.

Marcondes struck before playing in Bryan Mbeumo to sidefoot in the third.

Dasilva poked his second through Owls keeper Cameron Dawson’s legs with sub Tarique Fosuhenry (below) marking his first call-up to the Ghana squad with his debut Bees goal to complete the rout.

Fosu said: “I took a quick snapshot and it went into the bottom corner. It has been a great week.”

It made for a horrible 200th Owls appearance for Barry Bannan. The Scot blamed himself and his team-mates and not boss Garry Monk for a run of one league win in 10 games.

He said: “We’ve let the club down, let the fans down, let the badge down. It was terrible.

“Us as players have to start taking the blame now. The manager works hard, day in, day out.”