(Nominations include Premier League, EFL Championship, EFL League One, EFL League Two, WSL, and Women’s Championship fixtures)
The League Managers Association’s panel, comprising LMA Chairman Martin O’Neill OBE, Sir Alex Ferguson CBE, Chris Hughton, Rachel Yankey OBE, Les Ferdinand MBE, Clare Tomlinson, Jess Creighton, Stuart Pearce MBE, and Barry Fry has determined that the Utilita Performance of the Week Award should go to Brentford for their performance against Southampton on Saturday 4th January.
Thomas Frank will receive the Utilita Performance of the Week trophy.
Match Report
Brentford stormed to their first away win of the Premier League season with a 5-0 victory against Southampton at St Mary's Stadium.
Kevin Schade's early goal and Bryan Mbeumo's second-half brace were added to in stoppage-time by Keane Lewis-Potter and Yoane Wissa in a totally dominant performance from the Bees as they recorded their biggest-ever Premier League win.
Thomas Frank made two changes to the starting XI from the New Year's Day defeat to Arsenal with Mathias Jensen - who returned from injury against the Gunners as a substitute - and Schade replacing Vitaly Janelt and Yehor Yarmoliuk.
The Bees opened the scoring with just over five minutes played and, as he has been so often, Mikkel Damsgaard was the architect. He won a 50/50 with Paul Onuachu in the middle of the park and jinked past Lesley Ugochukwu before playing a superb pass to Schade in front of him. James Bree got a touch on the ball, but it wasn’t enough to take it away from the German, who poked, first time, past Aaron Ramsdale and into the bottom corner.
Read more here: https://www.brentfordfc.com/en/news/article/match-reports-southampton-0-brentford-5-premier-league-04-01-2025
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