It is hard to put a finger on why Brentford’s Premier League home and away performances this season have been so radically different.

We have the sixth-best home record in the league, but the fifth-worst away one.

Once again on Saturday, we returned from an away fixture – incredibly the first outside London since August – with no points, having comprehensively beaten Newcastle at the Gtech in our previous match.

We could have rescued a point at Brighton had Igor Thiago’s stoppage-time penalty gone in, but I am not sure we deserved it.

In fact, Thiago put both his penalties in exactly the same place, so if Bart Verbruggen had gone the right way for the first one, he would have saved that too.

We have been so vibrant in most of our home games, yet so flat in most of our away ones.

Having said that, I thought we started quite well on Saturday and were the better team in the first half. However, for all our decent play, we failed to create a chance and our xG from open play at half-time was zero.

It barely crept up in the second half, in which we were poor. We failed to respond to the impact of the Seagulls’ two half-time substitutions and were pegged back for large chunks of time.

We seem incapable of reproducing the brilliant intensity from our home games on the road.

Defender Sepp van den Berg was very honest on club media afterwards, saying: “It was not good enough. Everyone has to look in the mirror.”

Our five games before Christmas are going to prove very interesting.

We play all of the bottom three – Burnley and Leeds at home, and Wolves away – and in a fortnight have the Thomas Frank reunion at Spurs.

With our away record, our next game outside the Gtech looks ominous – Arsenal away!

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