Brentford and Burnley will play on Saturday the 21st of October at 3:00 pm in the 9th week of the Premier League. The match will be staged in Brentford at the Brentford Community Stadium. The appointed referee is Joshua Smith.

Brentford sits in the 15th position in the standings with 7 points. It comes from a 2-1 loss against Manchester United in its last match in the Premier League. So far, it has draw 5 times and lost 3 times.

Burnley sits in the 18th place in the standings with 4 points. It comes from a 1-4 loss against Chelsea in its last match in the Premier League. As of now, it has won once, drawn once, and lost 6 times.​​

Line-ups predictions​

These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.​

Brentford​

Brentford has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up most used during the season (5 times or 62.50%).

Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (5 times), 3-5-2 (2 times) and 5-3-2 (once).

Thomas Frank is expected to play against Burnley with the following players: Thomas Strakosha, Kristoffer Ajer, Nathan Collins, Saman Ghoddos, Mathias Jensen, Christian Nörgaard, Vitaly Janelt, Mads Roerslev, Bryan Mbeumo and Yoane Wissa.

Presuming that the line up is confirmed, the estimate average age of Brentford would be 26.10.

There are doubts about the presence of Ethan Pinnock.

Thomas Frank will probably not be able to employ Mark Flekken, Ben Mee, Shandon Baptiste and Keane Lewis-Potter because of injury.

Rico Henry, Mikkel Damsgaard, Josh Dasilva and Kevin Schade will definitely miss the match.

Thomas Frank will not be able to have the presence of Aaron Hickey and Ivan Toney  who are both suspended​.

Burnley​

Burnley has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (3 times or 37.50%).

Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (3 times), 4-3-3 (2 times), 4-4-2 (2 times) and 3-4-3 (once).

Vincent Kompany is expected to play against Brentford with the following players: James Trafford, Charlie Taylor, Connor Roberts, Josh Cullen, Sander Berge, Josh Brownhill , Zeki Amdouni, Luca Koleosho and Lyle Foster.

If this will be the line-up, the average age of Burnley would be 24.89.

There are doubts about the presence of Jordan Beyer and Ameen Al-Dakhil.

Vincent Kompany will probably not be able to employ Hjalmar Ekdal, Benson Manuel Hedilazio, Nathan Redmond, Michael Obafemi and Anass Zaroury because of injury.

Jóhann Berg Gudmundsson and Darko Churlinov will definitely miss the match.

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