Chelsea 0-2 Brentford LIVE! Premier League result, match stream and latest updates today
Stamford Bridge plays host to a west London derby tonight as Frank Lampard desperately searches for his first win back as interim head coach. It’s been a miserable second spell in charge for the Blues legend so far, with four successive defeats and a Champions League quarter-final exit leaving the chances of any sort of European football for next season looking very slim indeed.
Troubled Chelsea are in dire need of a lift as they sit 11th and a full 14 points adrift of the top six with only seven games left to play in this miserable first campaign under the Todd Boehly and Clearlake ownership group, who are now close to appointing former Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino as Graham Potter’s long-term successor in the dugout.
Brentford currently sit one place and five points ahead of their local rivals in mid-table but a run of six matches without a win has derailed their own European ambitions under Thomas Frank. Follow Chelsea vs Brentford updates live below, with expert analysis from Nizaar Kinsella at Stamford Bridge.
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Nizaar Kinsella at Stamford Bridge
Aubameyang, Madueke, Chalobah and Chilwell give their shirts to the fans. Most of the players applaud the supporters who remain in all four corners at Stamford Bridge.
It almost feels like an apology for what could end up being a historically bad season.
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Brentford 0-2 Chelsea
Another real low point in a truly horrifying season for Chelsea, who have now lost five games in a row under Lampard.
They are deservedly booed off the pitch by the few fans that have stayed until the end.
But another great night for Brentford, who waited 85 years to win at Stamford Bridge and now have two in as many seasons.
Their six-match winless run is over and the European dreams aren’t done just yet.
90 mins: A late Brentford switch sees Hickey replace Henry.
Four minutes more torture for the Chelsea fans that have stuck around to endure.
No chance of a last-gasp comeback here.
88 mins: Chelsea have offered nothing since that second Brentford goal. They look well-beaten and the fans have streamed out of the exits.
To their credit, the Bees have defended stoically all night. Mudryk tries to tee up Aubameyang but again there’s a red and white wall blocking their path.
84 mins: Brentford are hunting a late third goal now as the travelling fans revel in Chelsea’s ongoing misery.
Pinnock steers just wide at the back post!
Kevin Schade is on for Toney.
Watch: Mbeumo piles on yet more Chelsea misery
79 mins: Here come Felix and Madueke but it’s surely too little, too late from Lampard.
Off go Sterling and Fernandez.
GOAL! Chelsea 0-2 Brentford | Bryan Mbeumo 78’
78 mins: Brentford spring forward on the counter and double their lead with just over 10 minutes to play!
Lively substitute Mbeumo leads the charge, cutting inside Fofana before his shot deflects off the heel of Silva and beats Kepa at his near post.
Another utter disaster unfolding for Chelsea and Lampard tonight. A fifth straight defeat beckons.
That was Brentford’s first shot on target of the night...
74 mins: Noni Madueke and Joao Felix will be on for Chelsea very shortly.
Bright play from Mudryk - and Kante - again but his difficult lofted cross is too high for any team-mates in blue in the middle.
70 mins: Henry leads a pacey Brentford counter down the left flank, leaving Fofana for dust but giving away a foul for a push on the covering Sterling.
A row then erupts between Fofana and Henry, with the Brentford full-back seeming to make contact with his head.
It’s a yellow card for both men, but that could easily have been red for Henry if Fofana had reacted.