Brentford christen their new ‘fortress’ with style

NORWICH manager Daniel Farke paid tribute to his side’s small group of fans at Carrow Road.

‘It certainly felt that there were more than 1,000 fans here, that’s for sure,’ said the City boss. ‘Having supporters helped us a lot.’

After going behind to an early Scott Sinclair penalty, Norwich levelled when Teemu Pukki netted his first goal from open play since the tail end of last year.

Preston again got their noses in front when defender Darnell Fisher netted just but Norwich refused to lie down and made sure they went away with a point when substitute Przemslaw Placheta fired home a second equaliser.

THE paint has barely dried on Brentford’s new home but already Thomas Frank wants to pull up the drawbridge and give visitors hell to pay.

As christenings go, this will do nicely — a first Championship win, a first step on the long push for promotion and a first chance for new heroes to emerge.

Even without ‘two wheels on their BMW’, Brentford swept Huddersfield aside with t hree second- half goals from Josh Dasilva, Marcus Forss and Bryan Mbeumo. The r e wer e several missed chances but this was a fine marker for Brentord.

‘I’m very pleased because we need to make it a fortress,’ Frank said. ‘I thought about something like this when I was doing my morning run in Richmond Park.’

A cutting edge eluded Brentford for nearly an hour, then left-back Rico

Henry embarked on a surging run before feeding Dasilva, who netted the historic opener from 18 yards.

Huddersfield threatened an equaliser when Juninho Bacuna’s header struck a post before Brentford added a cherry to the cake late on. Forss’s close-range finish followed neat feet from Mbeumo, who then netted an injury-time rocket.

‘The opener unbalanced us,’ said Huddersfield boss Carlos C or be ran .‘ We couldn’t keep the intensity and mentality we needed.’

PHILIP COCU admitted the pressure was already on his Derby side after their defeat at Luton.

‘It’s the second game, but the pressure’s on now as we don’t have any points,’ the Dutchman said.

Jordan Clark scored the late winner to make it two wins from two games for Luton in the Championship.

Luke Berry put the home in front midway through the first half, volleying in a fantastic Elliot Lee delivery.

Derby were soon level after the restart through Jack Marriott.

Luton boss Nathan Jones said: ‘I’m delighted. I thought we were excellent, we really caused them problems pressing at the right times.’