Brentford boss Keith Andrews reveals Jordan Henderson, Vitaly Janelt injury latest ahead of West Ham meeting

Brentford caput manager Keith Andrews has revealed that a precocious determination volition beryllium made connected the engagement of Jordan Henderson and Vitaly Janelt successful Saturday's Premier League location meeting with West Ham United.

The Bees person mislaid momentum successful their European bid, having gone six matches without a triumph since beating Burnley 4-3 astatine the extremity of February.

Brentford played retired 5 consecutive league draws earlier they fell to a narrow 2-1 defeat successful Monday's distant clash against Manchester United.

While the eighth-placed side inactive stay successful the European picture, they request a beardown decorativeness to the play if they are to suffice for UEFA contention for the archetypal clip successful their history.

Andrews delivers Henderson, Janelt update

With Brentford hopeless to instrumentality to winning ways, Andrews volition privation to beryllium capable to telephone upon 2 cardinal players successful Henderson and Janelt.

The brace are pushing to marque the matchday squad for the crippled against relegation-threatened West Ham astatine the Gtech Community Stadium. 

"Vitaly and Jordan are beauteous close, truthful we’ll marque a determination connected that tomorrow, but they’ve made bully progress," Andrews told the media successful Friday's pre-match property conference.

However, Andrews confirmed that Rico Henry is "not arsenic close" to a instrumentality to action, portion helium is inactive incapable to telephone upon semipermanent absentees Antoni Milambo and Fabio Carvalho. 

Brentford keen to workout caution implicit Dasilva return

Brentford welcomed Josh Dasilva backmost to the matchday squad for the archetypal clip since January 2024 for Monday's decision astatine Old Trafford. 

Given the magnitude of Dasilva's wounded absence, Andrews is keen to follow a cautious attack regarding the grade of the midfielder's engagement betwixt present and the extremity of the season. 

"Josh had to enactment truly hard to get backmost to this point, truthful it was beauteous to person him arsenic portion of the squad," Andrews added.

"He wouldn’t beryllium connected the seat if I didn’t deliberation helium could marque an interaction of sorts.

"We haven’t truly wanted to outcry astir the advancement he's making from the rooftops and adhd much unit to his travel back, which has evidently been very, precise long.

"We’re precise cautious astir however and erstwhile we bid him. We inactive request to look aft him truly carefully, but he’s looking beauteous escaped and has trained truly good implicit the past fewer weeks."

Brentford volition caput into Saturday's fixture with hopes of claiming their archetypal location triumph since beating Sunderland connected January 7.