Aston Villa secured a comeback win against 10 man Brentford at the Gtech Community Stadium, trailing 1-0 at half-time but scoring twice in the final 13 minutes through Alex Moreno and Ollie Watkins.
This victory marked Villa’s third straight win in the Premier League, propelling them to second place ahead of Liverpool’s match against Manchester United. Both goals for Villa came after Ben Mee’s red card in the 71st minute, adding to the second-half chaos.
The drama continued with Boubacar Kamara’s red card in stoppage time, leading to some tension as Villa players were booed off the pitch by the home fans. Thomas Frank had a conversation with former striker Watkins before heading down the tunnel.
After the game, Frank expressed his frustrations, citing what he believed were three refereeing decisions that wrongly went against his Brentford team. The post-match discussion highlighted the contentious moments that contributed to the match’s intensity and the dissatisfaction felt by the Brentford manager regarding the officiating.
“It’s just sometimes a little bit tough to take when you are hard done by in three crucial situations in the game,” he told BBC Sport.
“I think for me, I don’t think David (Coote, the referee) got enough help from the VAR room today, I know it’s something he needs help from. I think it’s a clear penalty on Ben Mee, from the rules we’ve been told that they need to look at, of course, I’m no ref, maybe I’m wrong. I think the red card to Ben Mee, for me is not a red card.”
He then proceeded to comment on the distasteful scenes at full time: “In the end, I didn’t like all the incidents, that’s not how the game should be played. I think it’s very important to show as much class as possible, it’s difficult, I don’t do it every single time, and I’m always irritated with myself when it happens.”
Stone wall Red card it’s just a load of sour grapes from Frank, he didn’t like the fact that Ollie Watkins scored, and it was his team that was out of control could easily have been more sending offs.
Just another whinging manager whose team was well beaten. And who got his tactics all wrong.
The officials and VAR to blame nothing to do with the fact that his team were incapable of holding a lead
Absolute nonesnse form Colin. Thmas Frank is one of the few managers in the PL who seldom whinges. There was a clear penaly againt Ben Mee in the first half. That is indisputable. The Mee red card was one of those that could do either wya – yellow or red. I didn;t see thuogh why VAR should over-rule the original yellow decision. As for Martinez, that guy has zero class. We know what he is about from the World Cup final, and he was at it big time again today. Disappointed with Ollie Watkins though. Always highly thuoght of at Brentford as a genuinely decent guy, he really shouldn’t have alientated his former fans in the way he did. I suppose if you play for team that includes Martinez and McGinn, some of it rubs off?
Were you at the same game pal? Absolutely not – the Villains dived and cheated their way to victory orchestrated by a complicit ref. Frank is right – zero class – shame because I had thought Vilka were a decent club before – no longer…
Absolutely correct. So a boot full of studs on your shin is not a sending off? Who is he kidding? And Maupay should have been sent off for a blatant shoulder charge on Emi. His team were classless. Villa won fair and square.
Frank was talking about Maupay with the classless comment. His rolling around and whinging did nothing but help Villa run the clock down. An absolute embarrassment to the club.
Were you at the same game pal? Absolutely not – the Villains dived and cheated their way to victory orchestrated by a complicit ref. Frank is right – zero class – shame because I had thought Vilka were a decent club before – no longer…
Show me where he said classless Villa? All he says is that the situation in the end was classless, not specifically pointing to either team.
It’s natural for managers to feel hard done by, we see it in many games so I wouldn’t be too critical of Thomas Frank, who is a good manager. Having said that, the Ben Mee sending off is very clear when you see it away from the heat of the moment. The penalty is less clearcut, but it was a 50:50 tussle and probably not a penalty. When you see the number of players with hands on throats, Kamara can consider himself unlucky to be the only one penalised although he was a silly boy. Maupay. . . . oh dear, I do hope you feel embarrassed.
Where does he say Villa are classless Jake?
A stone wall penalty That the Brentford manager couldn’t see or agree Hmmm.
Villa booed of the pitch Brentford where as guilty from what I watched.
I think all this just boils down to sour grapes as for the of the ball incident’s both as bad as each other would be a fair comment.
But if you think you were some how robbed you wasn’t Villa deserved the 3 points.
Both red cards were correct . Mees tackle was a leg breaker, he has form for doing this.
As for the behaviour of the players ( both sides) not good enough.
The referee booked 4 villa players and sent 1 off, we only committed 6 fouls.
The referee had a difficult afternoon but on the whole he did ok.
Getting a little bit tired of managers moaning var this n that . Villa dominated and won
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If you don’t think that Mcginn holding and ‘pulling down Ben Mee was a penalty then you show the kind of bias that has long been held by Villa Fans. A disgrace both to you, football and the officials
Of courese you missed the fact Mee was holding Mcginn too 🙂
6 of one half dozen of the other could have gone either way
The laws of the game state: “a player who, when not challenging for the ball, deliberately strikes an opponent or any other person on the head or face with the hand or arm, is guilty of violent conduct unless the force used was negligible.” At one point, Flekken had Konsa in a headlock. . .should he have been red carded? . . no, as he didn’t ‘strike’ Konsa. By the same token, Kamara didn’t ‘strike’ anybody. Most media reports use the words ‘shove’ or ‘push’ so that shouldn’t have been a red either. He certainly didn’t use violent force as described in the laws of the game, so hopefully the FA will rescind this one.
The tackle Mee did had 2 feet off the ground and completely went over the ball and hit Baileys shin.He already destroyed Wesley’s career and ask Liverpool fans what he did to one of their players.Thomas Frank sent Maupay on to cause trouble and he got it.Stone wall penalty? Wasn’t Mee holding McGinn? He just wasn’t strong enough was he.Thomas Frank understandably parked the bus but Villa made their possession count with good football and effort.Villa had 6 first teamers out but Emery never uses that as an excuse.In fact he doesn’t do excuses.Did Villa fans target a Brentford player for abuse? Martinez rag dolled Maupay for his humiliation.Brentford thought they were on a winner but lost.Emery is a class manager who will sit down and subjectively coach his sides experience in this game to improve them against provocation,leg breaking tackles,players screaming for penalties.Hi five to Martinez.Frank can whinge all he wants it just shows his and Brentford’s class.
That is a really dumb post from Jay, clearly a very partisan Villa fan. Anyone who monitors Thomas Frank regularly and watches the Bees knows he is one of the leat ‘whingy’ managers in the PL. Unlike, say, the precious Arteta or Fulham’s Marco Silva, who moan about anything and everything.
Mee had only had one previous red card in a long career, which hardly makes him a serial ‘bad guy’. Villa had lots of possession but seldom looked like scoring against 11 men, so his tackle did them an immense favour. Villa fans should be thanking Mee for opening the door to 3 points when they probably would have gone home empty-handed otherwise.
uIf you look at the McGinn-Mee incident from the right angle, Mee was more the victim than the sinner. And Konsa did give Maupay a push and it probably was a penalty. Maupay’s well-earned reputation for ,****housing’ probably told against him there. On balance, Brentford were unlucky not to get one of those potential given. And Martinez’s behaviour is totally indefensible, as is Maupay’s. You have to be particularly jaundiced to try to defend either of them. Both behaved in a manner embarrassing to their respective clubs.