Frank reacts to disappointing draw and snubs Club World Cup

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Brentford boss Thomas Frank reacts to disappointing draw and snubs Club World Cup  06/04/2025  Gtech Stadium, London, UK

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00:00He just came in and said he thought his team deserved to win, I wonder if he thought maybe your team deserved to win?

00:06I think we are all slightly biased as coaches and we definitely look at our side of the elephant.

00:17It's probably difficult to look from the other side of the elephant unless you are on top of it.

00:22I felt we performed well and I felt that we were clearly on top in the first half.

00:29We definitely got momentum, had better opportunities, probably should have scored.

00:33I thought the second half was more even, they were a bit more on the ball.

00:38I thought throughout the game we defended very well.

00:42We limited Chelsea to half a chance for James on a corner, the rest for me was shots outside the box.

00:51Which we were quite happy with.

00:54Then I thought we were really straight going forward, really good to go behind them, really good to run at them.

01:00And for me, maybe I'm slightly biased, I saw five very good chances to us.

01:07If you look at the big chances then probably up there for that.

01:11The Wisse header, the Dams chance, the Brian shot on a transition, the Keane free header on a set piece and of course Sepp's big header.

01:24So I think if there should have been a winner, I think it should have been us.

01:27I thought it was an even game, a good game between two teams.

01:30Very happy with our performance against a top club.

01:34Spent a few quid on players over the last year or two.

01:37And a good manager and their world coach.

01:40I was listening to you there, you said you defended well, but maybe in the second half attacking in general is more difficult.

01:47Do you wish you had maybe more options on the bench?

01:51No, I think that's spot on.

01:54I think if you look at okay quality players they put on the pitch.

01:59I think it's called Neto, I think it's called from Wolves, 50, 60 million.

02:03Called Palmer, maybe one of the best tens in the division.

02:06Jackson, done brilliantly for them.

02:08And what did it go, Gorilla?

02:10One more?

02:12So I think it's fair to say they had a little bit more to shoot with than us.

02:15We have that in our squad, unfortunately some of them are injured.

02:18So I think again if we had something to shoot with I think maybe they would have tipped it even more.

02:22You said it was unfair that Chelsea had to play Thursday for a quick turnaround.

02:27I know they're able to make changes like Madaway came and come again,

02:31you came to the Prime International and come again.

02:33Do you have much sympathy for that?

02:40I think that must be his opinion.

02:46You know, it's football.

02:48I know there are many games and a big programme.

02:54I can just look from our perspective.

02:56We try to deal with it when we have short turnarounds.

03:03I think it does.

03:05To be fair to that, I think it does.

03:07But that happens all the time.

03:09I think once this season we felt that we were the team that had the least rest between games

03:18before we played our quarter-final against Newcastle.

03:21And the furthest away of all the other bigger clubs.

03:24So that definitely got bigger squads.

03:27That was the only time I raced it because I don't think it was fair.

03:30All of them had one more day.

03:32So I think the 24 hours means something.

03:34If we have two days between, we'll deal with it, we'll manage, no problem.

03:36Three days, that's good.

03:39Always, that's not a problem.

03:41Then there's a bigger talk about the amount of games over a year.

03:46Not for us.

03:48But if we play a lot in Europe and go far in the Cups and all that

03:53and need to play the Club World Cup, which is still ridiculous in my opinion,

03:57then I don't understand this too much.

04:00Can I follow on that?

04:02Why is the Club World Cup ridiculous?

04:04You know, it's just another tournament.

04:06So how many wants the Club World Cup?

04:09Do you want it?

04:11No.

04:13It's one of the few, I think.

04:17Will you watch it?

04:19Me? No. I'll enjoy my summer.

04:22No chance.

04:24Does it ruin the competitive balance as well?

04:27Because there's going to be two quads in the Premier League

04:30with over 100 million revenue extra.

04:32Does that concern you?

04:33I think, from my point of view and where we are,

04:37we can't really compete with that sort of money.

04:41The good pitch is actually to compete out here.

04:44So that's what I'm very proud of,

04:46even though they have hundreds of millions more to spend than us.

04:50And if I should say one thing I said,

04:52I think we were closer to winning than they were,

04:54which I'm very proud of.

04:56The President hasn't won a home game.

04:59You're so positive and now you're calling that a question.

05:01I was about to say.

05:03You might be looking inwards sometimes,

05:06but after a performance like that,

05:08it probably doesn't do nothing because you feel

05:10that you were the better team and you had quite conceivably

05:13enough chances to win that game on the day.

05:15I understand why you have to ask the question,

05:19because you haven't won in eight games.

05:21Of course, it's definitely a stat I prefer not to have.

05:25The same way we couldn't win in the beginning of the season

05:27away from home.

05:29We won five on a bounce.

05:31Sometimes it goes up and down.

05:33This season, sometimes it's not.

05:35But it's down to our performances,

05:37which we always look at.

05:39I think we've been really consistent in performance

05:41throughout this season.

05:43We just played two good games against two good teams,

05:46Newcastle and Chelsea.

05:48Everybody expects to fight for the Champions League spot.

05:50Both games should easily have won,

05:53which I'm very, very proud of.

05:56Today, I agree, we performed more than well enough to win.

05:59Same against Everton.

06:01Same against Tottenham.

06:03It's just games that we couldn't edge.

06:16I think they looked good before Sepp got injured.

06:19I think they're a really good, interesting partnership.

06:22I think they performed well today.

06:26I like that.

06:33Sometimes it's a relationship between the two of them.

06:37I think they're very good to communicate

06:40and, how can you say, guide each other,

06:43which is a big thing in the middle of the pitch.

06:55Fine. Solid. Good. Happy.

07:04Do you find it affecting football negatively now?

07:06Do you find it when you play teams who have been in Europe?

07:09There's a lot of talk as well about how this Premier League season

07:12is beginning to feel a little bit flattering.

07:18I don't know what the right thing is,

07:21what is the perfect calendar.

07:24But the intensity in football goes up,

07:28Premier League, European football.

07:30There's no doubt there is a limit

07:33to how good you can perform

07:37or at what intensity you can keep performing at over a year.

07:41That will affect performances.

07:44That will affect players.

07:46That will give more injuries.

07:48Do we need bigger squads then or not?

07:51Or do we need to find a better calendar? I don't know.

07:53One thing for sure, we can't keep adding, adding, adding.

07:56It doesn't work.

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