The Athletic Hello, I'm Mark Chapman. Welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast. Adam Crafton is with us as always. Later, we'll catch up with Matt Slater after his trip to Qatar.

But let's get straight to it and we're going to start with the result of the weekend.

Brentford's 4-1 win at Stamford Bridge over Chelsea. Let's start the pod with Brentford.

Jay Harris is the athletics Brentford correspondent and he is with us.

On what has been a very good season is this the

crowning moment yeah definitely I think obviously the opening day victory over

Arsenal was a was a really special moment but I think just with the context with it was only a month ago that it felt like Brentford were in a real spot above

a round, they hadn't won in eight matches and then since then beaten Norwich City, beating

Burnley and to then go to the, you know, the European champions, the world

champions and win so convincingly and come from behind to win. I just think, you know, I'm sure we've all

seen the scenes and the stands on on Saturday at

Stamford Bridge such a special moment not just in Brentford season but a lot of

people I've spoken to claiming that it you know it might be the best result in

the club's history. What's changed then from when they were going through their sticky spell to now?

I would have thought for outside, as it'd be very easy to go, oh, the signing of Christian Erikson,

but to those inside the club, those with knowledge is it is it something more than that?

Obviously Ericsson's definitely played a factor I think Brentford had struggled to create chances

from open play all season we all know that Ivan Tony is a fantastic

goal scorer at this level if he's given the opportunity but he just wasn't

given those opportunities. Erikson's definitely helped him with that.

And before this game they switched to a back four which has seemed to make them a little bit more fluid.

But actually a return to a back three ended up being a tactical master show completely caught Chelsea off guard.

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