Luton 2 Brentford 1 - Bees' fans feel the nerves of promotion race

A 7-0 thrashing at Griffin Park in the reverse fixture had most Bees' fans expecting Thomas Frank's outfit would end a three game winless run. 

Shandon Baptiste's own goal and Martin Cranie's strike before the break however meant Graeme Jones's side picked up an invaluable three points despite Ollie Watkins's late consolation. 

As the Hatters were lifted from the foot of the table, the Bees slipped to fifth, six points behind Leeds in second who have a game in hand, and just three ahead of Bristol City in seventh. 

The almost nailed-on play-off spot is now not looking a certainty as they head to Cardiff City on Saturday.

Brentford fans took social media to air their thoughts of their plight following the defeat, raising questions over team selecton, especially Frank's decision to play three at the back, despite having only one bonafide centreback in the line-up.

Why are Norgaard and Dalsgaard playing centre back when we have Racic (a CB) on the bench??! Too much change #BrentfordFC

— Mikey Simmonds (@mikeysimmo) February 25, 2020

Automatics well and truly gone. Only battle left is playoffs. And as proved many times this year and in past playoff campaigns, we are big game bottlers. Really want us to do something special, but tonight has made me lose all faith in these players.#brentfordfc

— RM🐝 (@rmbfc1) February 25, 2020

Might give up Brentford for lent, get my hopes up every year only to let me down and get me depressed.😭#brentfordfc

— RM🐝 (@rmbfc1) February 25, 2020

A bit of a wake up call tonight - away at Luton bottom of the table - if you get it wrong and make mistakes the other side win. The beautiful game kicks u in the nuts occasionally tonight was just that #BrentfordFC 🐝🐝

— Mick Cabble (@mickcabble) February 25, 2020

Playing 4-3-3, going well, 2 centre backs get injured, 1 centre back for. Frank says “You know what, instead of 2, let’s play 3 centre backs with only one fit, with a right back and CDM as two of the centre backs. Wonder why it all went wrong? #BrentfordFC #LUTBRE

— RM🐝 (@rmbfc1) February 25, 2020

Our delivery into the box has been absolutely woeful! #LUTBRE #BrentfordFC

— Paul (@Coz_Cozza) February 25, 2020

What about letting Mads Bech Sørensen go out on loan too? Another central defender 😬 #BrentfordFC

— Deb (@DebbeeHorwood) February 25, 2020

Do we actually want to be in this promotion battle 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ #BrentfordFC #Bees 🐝🐝

— J-V (@iamJ_V) February 25, 2020

BMW's have never worked properly in the winter weather #BrentfordFC #lufc

— James Cockerham (@h_cockerham) February 25, 2020

Luton Town on a Tuesday night. Couldn’t pick a worse place to play could you Thomas.👀🖕🏼😂#BrentfordFC

— Diddlysquat (@markrikko) February 25, 2020

Vintage #BrentfordFC pic.twitter.com/X6pWVoChuQ

— Justin(LionsAndBees) (@Lions_and_Bees) February 25, 2020

Any hopes of automatics have surely gone now...need to sort it out before we slip out of the playoffs as well #BrentfordFC

— Joe Hales (@joe_hales95) February 25, 2020

🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
Are falling apart again

😂#BrentfordFC #TheBees#BFC#LUTBRE

— Paul Wilson 💛💙🎶 (@lufcmusic) February 25, 2020

Our defence has gradually gotten worse without Pontus, giving us less command over games. Take away our best ball playing midfielder and we look a shadow of ourselves. Still not a reason to play that badly against a bottom side. #BrentfordFC

— Jack Kelly (@JackEpotato) February 25, 2020

Yes Luton’s timewasting was ridiculous, yes we had injuries, but that was a disgrace. Don’t make excuses, we deserved absolutely nothing tonight. They wanted it more. We were absolutely awful.#brentfordfc #LUTBRE

— RM🐝 (@rmbfc1) February 25, 2020

Last few games we have proper lost our mojo 🤯 #brentfordfc ... also the amount of times we didn’t beat the first man on set pieces ⚰️

— Ryan O'Leary (@RyanO_Leary) February 25, 2020

Absolute shite. No confidence. Wrong personnel and starting with a back 3 with one fit centre half was criminal. Injuries absolutely killing us #BrentfordFC

— Sam (@Sam_Hawkins) February 25, 2020

Obviously Pontus Jansson is massive, but I said it when people wanted him dropped, Mathias Jensen is so important. His ability to control the game and pick a pass is so important. Really missed him in midfield, need the other midfielders to step up until he’s back.#BrentfordFC

— RM🐝 (@rmbfc1) February 25, 2020

@PJansson5 #brentfordfc pic.twitter.com/MMWGlCv3HU

— gee (@GeeeBFC) February 25, 2020

Worst performance of the season.

— Zach Flitter (@Skourch) February 25, 2020