- Brentford won four games in a row for the first time in the Premier League
- Kevin Schade scored his fourth goal in three games in the victory on Saturday
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Brentford’s offer for a very first European qualification won force as they beat Ipswich 1-0 in Portman Road to win four first league victories in a row.
Kevin Schade directed the only goal of the match from a corner in the 18th minute to give his team an advance, that only a late Ipswich rally during which Omari Hutchinson struck a post and Mark Flekken produced an exceptional backup to refuse Cameron Burgess, they rarely looked like Relin.
The form of Thomas Frank’s team, as well as favorable remaining matches as well as the defeat of Rival Fulham, leaves the chance of an eighth place and with it a possible place in the league of conference at hand.
The four team fight for the eighth can still go to the last day when the number of European places via the League, which depends on the outcome of the FA Cup final, will be known.
Before that, the Cottagers of Marco Silva visit the Gtech stadium next Saturday, then the bees go to the Wolves for what could be a decisive day in the history of the club.
For the Kieran McKenna team, they find themselves with a single chance remaining to add to their solitary victory of the Home League this season, and any investigation is ahead of their relegation must surely start by the fact that they only marked 13 times in front of their own fans.
Brentford’s offer to qualify for Europe was stimulated on Saturday by a 1-0 victory in Ipswich
No 7 Kevin Schade led the bees in front with his fourth goal in three games in 18 minutes
Thomas Frank’s team could be on the right track for a place in the Europa league next season
The winning goal came early and was the only highlight of the poor first half. The nearby corner of Bryan Mbeumo was met just inside the six yards box by Schade, which increased and tilted a brilliant loop head on his own shoulder and high of the scope of the Dara O’Shea defender who tried in vain on the goal line to erase.
Jack Taylor pulled a large distance shooting for Ipswich after a good job on the left of Julio Enciso. It was the extent of the threat that the local team made on the goal of Flekken in the first half.
Brentford came in a yard to doubt their advance on the stroke of the interval, Mikkel Damsgaard leading to his first effort just beyond a position.
McKenna will soon have time to think about the positive points to be drawn from the disappointing stay of his team in the elite.
The chief among them will surely be the performances of goalkeeper Alex Palmer, signed in January by West Brom, who looked at everything at home from the division.
He added to his coil high moments of impressive backups at the start of the second half, descending to divert the effort of Yoane Wissa, then again to beat Mbeumo at his nearby post.
Ipswich came to collect just their eighth home point in the countryside.
Hutchinson crushed a shot against the post close to a good position, then Flekken produced superb reflexes to divert the volley of Burgess, which was by far the clearest openings of the team at home.
