Championship

CAMPBELL BRACE STINGS THE BEES

by
The LeaguePaper Team
16 December 2018

By Chris Wilson

MORE TO COME: Hull’s Fraizer Campbell, left, celebrates his first goal
PICTURE: PSI/Ian Lyall

BRENTFORD’S alarming run of form was compounded by a defeat at Hull.
The visitors could not recover from Fraizer Campbell’s firsthalf brace which intensified the pressure upon head coach Thomas Frank.
Frank has now won just once from 10 games since he replaced Dean Smith at Griffin Park. And this latest reverse was a neat symbolism of Brentford’s deficiencies.
Frank’s men always looked a threat going forward, but they once again defended like a...

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