Frank full of praise for Brentford’s deadly duo Mbeumo and Wissa

Thomas Frank was full of praise for attackers Bryan Mbeumo and Yoane Wissa after the duo inspired the 4-2 victory of Brentford over Brighton.

Mbeumo and Wissa are at 18 and 16 competition goals respectively this season, in which both players score in seven separate Premier League matches this period.

Winger Mbeumo scored a brace and set up Wissa for its own goal in the Gtech Community Stadium, and De Cameroon International has now been involved in 24 Premier League goals This term, largely by a player for Brentford in a single season in the competition together with Ivan Tone.

Christian Norgaard added the fourth of the bees, with Danny Welbeck and Kaoru Mitoma nets for Brighton.

Joao Pedro was sent away before Jan Paul van Hecke was stretched after a serious head of injury time.

On the form of his front two, Frank said: 'All the praise to the two for the hard work, how much they push.

“Then, of course, for my staff and the way we play. If you have consistently produced top scorers for the past six seasons, there must be something that we do well.

“It was a very big win. I said to the players for the game, just win. Of course I hope to win every game and we try to win every game. But it is always about performances in the first place, and that's what we have done consistently.”

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Fabian Hurzeler was confronted with a few different songs from the fans of Brighton when he replaced goal scorer Welbeck in the second half.

Welbeck had scored his ninth Premier League goal of the season, his joint return in a campaign in the competition, together with 2011-12 and 2013-14.

Brighton is now Winloos in five Premier League matches, but he insisted that he was not too dissatisfied with their efforts.

Hurzeler said: “That's fine if she [the fans] have their opinion.

“I wanted to have more midfielders on the field to drive the game more. I think the team played well afterwards. We scored the second goal, we had a big chance with Kaoru to score the third goal.

“We had the criminal situation with Lewis [Dunk] So there were many positive things after the subs. “

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