The Brentford aesculapian squad are presently nursing 11 injured players backmost to wellness up of their Premier League London derby against Arsenal astatine the Gtech Community Stadium connected New Year's Day.
The Bees mislaid some Mark Flekken and Ben Mee to unspecified concerns successful their 0-0 gully with Brighton & Hove Albion connected December 27, and the presumption of some rearguard members is presently up successful the air.
The aforesaid goes for Mathias Jensen (calf) and Sepp van den Berg (groin), but Igor Thiago (knee), Gustavo Nunes (back), Rico Henry (knee), Aaron Hickey (thigh), Josh Dasilva (knee), Kristoffer Ajer (ankle) and Ethan Pinnock (thigh) volition decidedly miss out.
Thomas Frank should springiness an update connected his infirm troops successful owed course, but if Flekken is incapable to shingle disconnected the occupation that forced him disconnected successful the archetypal fractional astatine the Amex, Hakon Valdimarsson volition marque his afloat Premier League debut.
Frank volition besides person nary prime but to propulsion 20-year-old centre-back Kim Ji-soo into the heavy extremity if Van den Berg and Mee are not fixed the greenish light, but Nathan Collins, Mads Roerslev and Keane Lewis-Potter are acceptable and raring to go.
Amid each the antiaircraft uncertainty, the hosts tin enactment up with an unchanged treble pivot of Christian Norgaard and Vitaly Janelt, who volition run conscionable down originative fulcrum Mikkel Damsgaard.
No alterations should beryllium considered up apical either, wherever Kevin Schade and Yoane Wissa volition enactment successful tandem with Bryan Mbeumo, who has struck 12 goals and provided 2 assists successful his past 15 Premier League London derbies.
Brentford imaginable starting lineup:
Valdimarsson; Roerslev, Collins, Kim, Lewis-Potter; Janelt, Norgaard; Mbeumo, Damsgaard, Schade; Wissa
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