Bees beaten by late Wolves comeback
Brentford 1 Wolves 2
Brentford slumped to their second successive home defeat – after throwing away the lead in the last five minutes against relegation-threatened Wolves.
Maxime Colin’s first-half strike against the run of play appeared to have earned the Bees an unconvincing victory, but the visitors snatched all three points with late goals from Matt Doherty and Helder Costa.
Wolves controlled the early stages, using the full width of the pitch as Costa and Nouha Dicko gave the home defence some uncomfortable moments.
Dan Bentley’s quick reactions denied David Edwards from close range and the Brentford goalkeeper was also called into action to foil both Dicko and Costa.
The hosts struggled for rhythm – but they took the lead with a well-worked goal on the half-hour mark as Rico Henry’s ball was neatly back-heeled by Konstantin Kerschbaumer for Colin to take a touch and slot crisply past Carl Ikeme.
Wolves should have levelled just after the break when Costa teed up Dicko inside the box, but he crashed his effort against the crossbar and Andreas Weimann was unable to convert the rebound.
The Bees continued to withstand pressure as George Saville and Conor Coady went close, while Bentley came to his side’s rescue again with a diving stop to parry a 25-yard rocket from Lee Evans.
With Harlee Dean and John Egan making crucial blocks, it looked as if Brentford would hang on – but Wolves substitute Ben Marshall then set up Doherty to tuck in an 85th-minute equaliser.
And fellow replacement Ivan Cavaleiro completed the deserved comeback three minutes later as he delivered the cross for Costa to thump home Wolves’ second.
Brentford: Bentley; Colin, Dean, Egan, Henry; Woods; Yennaris, Kerschbaumer (Sawyers 80); Jota (Clarke 68), Vibe (Jozefzoon 61), Canos.
