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Pontus Jansson scored a dramatic winner deep into stoppage time to hand Brentford a 2-1 victory over Watford at Vicarage Road that leaves Roy Hodgson’s men six points off safety.
The Bees opened the scoring after a quarter of an hour courtesy of a long throw that centre-half Kristoffer Ajer flicked on for Christian Norgaard to convert from close range.
The Hornets levelled the scores in the second half. Emmanuel Dennis’ finish from a tight angle was allowed to stand following a VAR review, having been initially ruled out for offside.
Jansson settled the contest in the 95th minute by powering a header in from Christian Eriksen’s free-kick after Imran Louza squandered a gilt-edged chance at the other end.
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Watford are only the third team to lose 10 consecutive top-flight home games in a row after Birmingham and Sunderland and only the second to do so within a single season.
Brentford have won five of their last six Premier League games (L1) and have won three top-flight games in a row for the first time since September 1946.
Hodgson is the first manager to lose his first five home Premier League games in charge of a club since Chris Ramsey with QPR in 2015.
Brentford have scored three goals in the Premier League this season via throw-in situations — one more than the rest of the division combined — with Norgaard netting two of those for the Bees and assisting the other.
Norgaard netted his third goal for Brentford this season after failing to find the net in either of his previous two league campaigns. The midfielder has now registered five goal involvements in the top-flight in 2021-22 (three goals, two assists), one more than in his last two league seasons combined.
Dennis netted his first goal in his last eight Premier League appearances and just his second in his last 14. Prior to that, the Nigerian had scored eight in 16 games in the competition.
Eriksen has registered a goal involvement in three of his last four Premier League appearances for Brentford (one goal, two assists), with only Ivan Toney (every 154 minutes) posting a better minutes per goal involvement rate in the division for the Bees this season (every 163 minutes).
