Tottenham Hotspur vs Brentford Matchday Stats Preview

The team scoring first has won none of the last four Premier League meetings between Tottenham and Brentford (D2 L2), with Spurs coming from behind to win this exact fixture 3-2 last season.

Brentford have won just one of their six Premier League meetings with Tottenham (D3 L2), a 3-1 away win in May 2023.

Tottenham Hotspur have won just four points in the Premier League this season (W1 D1 L2), their fewest at this stage since 2015-16 (3). Spurs haven’t lost three of their opening five games since 2008-09 under Juande Ramos, who left the club eight winless games into that season.

Brentford have lost 12 of their last 16 away Premier League matches (W3 D1) – all four of their away London derbies in this sequence have been lost.

Spurs have lost seven of their last 11 Premier League matches (W3 D1) – since the start of this run on April 13, only Wolves have suffered more defeats in the competition (8).

Tottenham Hotspur have forced the most high turnovers in the Premier League this season (47) and have the lowest PPDA figure in the competition (6.2). They’ve also enjoyed the most possession (67.8%) and allowed their opponents to complete just 795 passes so far, 301 fewer than any other side.

Each of Brentford’s last seven Premier League goals have been scored by African players, all by either Yoane Wissa (4) or Bryan Mbeumo (3). Excluding own goals, 34% of their goals have been netted by Africans (55/162), with only Portsmouth having a higher percentage in Premier League history (42%).

Only Nottingham Forest (27) have conceded more set piece goals (incl. penalties) in the Premier League since the start of last season than Tottenham (25). Among all managers who’ve conceded more than 50 goals in Premier League history, only four have a higher percentage of goals conceded via set pieces than Ange Postecoglou (25/65, 38.5%).

Brentford goalkeeper Mark Flekken has made 22 saves in four Premier League matches this season, six more than any other goalkeeper. Since 2003-04, only one goalkeeper has ever made more saves in a team’s first four games in a season – Tim Krul for Newcastle in 2015-16 (23).

Only Nottingham Forest’s Morgan Gibbs-White (11) has created more open play chances in the Premier League this season than Tottenham’s Pedro Porro (10). He is the only player to have created four or more open play chances in two different games this season (4 vs Leicester, 4 vs Arsenal).