Brentford will welcome Manchester United to the Brentford Community Stadium in the Premier League matchday 17 on Wednesday. The kick-off is at 22:00 CEST.

Preview

Despite back-to-back wins over Aston Villa (2-1) and Port Vale (4-1) in the league and FA Cup in their opening two games in 2022, Brentford were beaten in the following encounters with Southampton (4-1) on January 11 and most recently Liverpool (3-0) on Sunday. As a results, Thomas Frank's men have found themselves in the 14th position in the table with 23 points taken from 21 matches.

Man United, for their part, suffered another blow to their top-four hopes over the weekend as Ralf Rangnick's side were held to a 2-2 draw by Aston Villa on Saturday despite being 2-0 up in the 75th minute at Villa Park. As a reminder, the Red Devils were beaten by Wolverhampton 1-0 in the preceding league match and now sit in seventh in the PL standings with 32 points, five points adrift of fourth-placed West Ham but with two games in hand.

Team news

Josh Dasilva, Julian Jeanvier, David Raya and Charlie Goode are all unavailable for the hosts due to injury while Frank Onyeka is away at the Africa Cup of Nations. AFCON-bound Eric Bailly, for his part, will not help United on Wednesday while Paul Pogba remains doubt having only recovered from a long-term injury lately.

Prediction

United badly need to return to winning ways this time around to keep their top-4 hopes alive. Given Brentford's recent dip in form, let's say that it won't take the Red Devils long to break the Bees' leaky defence and thus register their second victory across all competitions since the turn of the year.

Tip

Manchester United to win at 1.868 with 1XBET.