TONEY 7UP TONIC!
Bees go goal crazy
TWO-GOAL Ivan Toney was back on the scoresheet as Brentford hit Wycombe for SEVEN in a thriller.
But Thomas Frank says his frontman, who ended a sevengame drought, should be credited with a hat-trick as his promotion-chasing Bees ran riot.
Wycombe reached half-time at 2-2, but they were blitzed by five second-half goals.
Toney scored two of them yet could have a treble confirmed by the goals panel after his firsthalf volley appeared to clearly cross the line before Tariqe Fosu bundled the ball home.
The league’s 18goal top scorer even made a Twitter appeal for the goal after the game.
“It is Ivan’s goal 100 per cent,” said Brentford boss Frank (inset). “It was over the line.
“He thinks he got a hat-trick, he deserved the hat-trick.”
It took Brentford just nine minutes to go ahead, as a Mathias Jensen corner evaded a rush of defenders to the near post for Ethan Pinnock to prod the ball into the net.
But Wycombe hit back five minutes later as Uche Ikpeazu collected the ball 25 yards from goal and evaded three defenders before curling a shot into the far corner. Ikpeazu nearly fired Wycombe ahead but David Raya turned his shot onto a post before the keeper came to the rescue again, pushing away David Wheeler’s header.
At the other end, Josh Dasilva had a shot deflected onto a post for the home side. Brentford regained the lead after 41 minutes, as Sergi Canos’s cross picked out Toney unmarked at the far post, whose shot looped up off Ryan Allsop and crossed the line before Fosu got to it.
This time the lead lasted just two minutes, as a Jason McCarthy free-kick was headed back across goal by Darius Charles for Admiral Muskwe to nod in. Within 11 minutes of the restart,
Brentford were two ahead.
First, Fosu fired in from 15 yards after being teed up by Toney on 50 minutes, then
Toney scored Brentford’s fourth from the penalty spot after Fred Onyedinma was controversially ruled to have fouled Canos as he tried to clear. Brentford piled on the agony late on.
Canos put a glorious curling finish on DaSilva’s cross, on 81 minutes, before Toney ran clear and rounded Allsop to score again. There was still time for DaSilva to cap an excellent performance as he ran clear to blast in Brentford’s seventh as they moved up to third spot.
“Scoring seven goals and creating five chances or more apart from that is very impressive,” added Frank.
“We are in a good position, no doubt about that. I think there are six teams that can be in the top two and a lot more who can be in the top six, so we cannot relax.”
Wycombe manager Gareth Ainsworth felt his side lost their focus after feeling aggrieved at the two early goals in the second half. “That’s my biggest defeat as a manager and that is not nice for me,” he said.
“We lost our concentration. I’m not a character that accepts defeats like that well.”
BRENTFORD: Raya 6; Dalsgaard 6, Pinnock 6, Sorensen 5, Henry 6 (Roerslev 84); DaSilva 7, Jensen 6 (Janelt 61, 6), Ghoddos 7 (Zamburek 82), Canos 8; Fosu 7 (Forss 82), Toney 8.
Unsused subs: Daniels, Pressley, Stevens.
WYCOMBE: Allsop 5; Grimmer 5, Knight 5, Charles 5, McCarthy 5; Onyedinma 7, (Mehmeti 87); Wheeler 6 (McCleary 76, 6), Thompson 6 (Bloomfield 84), Adeniran 7; Muskwe 7 (Akinfenwa 76), Ikpeazu 8 (Samuel 84).
Unsused subs: