Brentford vs Eintracht FrankfurtPrediction, probable lineups, recent form & season stats

A tune-up friendly between a Premier League and a Bundesliga side, arriving from very different summers. Brentford have drawn five of their last six at home, including 2-2 with Crystal Palace, 0-0 with Fulham, 2-2 with Everton and 2-2 with Wolves, scoring 1.5 a game and conceding 1.1. Eintracht Frankfurt have swept aside lower-level opposition away from home: 7-1 against Giessen, 7-0 against RW Frankfurt, 3-0 against Trabzonspor and 1-0 against Waldhof Mannheim. An away figure that needs care Eintracht's 4.1 goals a trip is the most eye-catching number in the fixture, but it comes largely from two routs against amateur sides. Strip those out and the team still looks solid: no defeats in five tests and a clean sheet in 61% of them. Two opposite registers Brentford play short, locked games, with only 53% of their home matches passing two goals and a third finishing without a goal. Eintracht arrive with the sense that they can hurt anyone on the break. There is no head-to-head, so there is no reference for how the two styles fit together. The verdict: the call is between one and four goals from the visitors. Eintracht scored in all five summer outings and the upper limit only rules out a rout, a scenario that has already appeared twice in their pre-season. The confidence is the lowest available given the short sample and the nature of the test. I read it around 76%. My take: Eintracht should score, but against real opposition the tempo of those routs will not repeat.