“Clearly Norgaard didn’t do well enough, so it took a little bit longer,” Thomas Frank praises Brentford’s great mentality following their victory over Wolves

Thomas Frank lauded his Brentford side’s mindset after they ultimately capitalised on an early lead in their 5-3 victory over Wolves.

Nathan Collins gave the Bees the lead after 75 seconds, adding to their previous three league goals in under a minute.

Frank’s team only gained a point from those three games, but they survived an end-to-end first half to secure their third home league win of the season after four games.

“It’s a crazy story,” said Frank when asked about the early goals. “We’ve been joking about it, but it’s easier to joke when you’re on top of things and you win the game.

“We’ve been practicing coin tosses all week and clearly Norgaard didn’t do well enough so it took a little bit longer this time [after Wolves kicked off the game].

“It’s fantastic, there’s a great mentality in the group. If you look at us over the last four seasons in the Premier League, we always have goals in the team no matter who is playing.

“Part of that is we want to play forward as quickly as possible. We like to have more control, but if we can get it to the side [of the pitch] and produce a run and produce a cross, then that’s what we do.

“More impressive was the 3-2 goal after kick off. That was probably a sucker punch to Wolves that one.

“We’re working very hard on it. I think we lose the ball 2 or 3 times so it’s about the positioning and the counter pressing and how we work from there. So some of it also a bit of what we want to do in open play.

“But the mindset now – which is a big thing as well – we don’t want to play it back and make a few passes, we want to get the ball up there and see if we can create something and change the momentum.”