What a great game today. It suprised me how many away fans turned up but there were probably 500 of us there. From the off the game looked like it was gonna be great. The officials Phillips, Flynn and Armstrong all sounded like a good omen for the day.

The game started at a cracking pace and Brentford looked up for it. The home crowd must have been pleased with a couple of their early chances but too be honest as wrexham fans I'm sure we all prefer to see a team who are up for a game of football. We know our away form is great and that we play better against sides that give us space. We had a couple of early chances too and it soon became an excellent advert for 2nd Division football.

Today was one of the best one nil wins i have seen for a long time we were well organised, everyone looked up for it and we played some excellent football. Oh what a difference it makes to have a £4.5 million pound striker upfront even if he has got a bad leg. Armstrong had a few chances to score today but to be fair they were chances he created himself. LLewellyn looked to have one of his better games and I feel excited about the prospect of the two of them getting used to playing together.

Paul Edwards had a great game, I'm not sure if it was down to the lad marking him or his recent found ability to do something different than try to beat the man on the same side time after time. It was a relief to see him cut inside and one of these times he created a lot of space for himself and launched a superb strike that went pretty close to putting us one up.

To be fair to brentford they gave us a good game especially in the first half and a couple of defensive mistakes could have been punished worse. Whilst they caused us some problems you got that feeling that the wouldn't beat us. They were dangerous a lot of the time in the first 3/4 of the pitch but their finishing was as poor as ours used to be.

Right on half time it started raining and looked like it could have been quite bad. The stewards must have heard about the stockport situation cos they allowed us into the stands for free. This was great really because it helped with the atmosphere and made the wrexham fans sound much louder.

The second half continued at the same blistering pace, but this time it seemed to be wrexham that were more in control. Our passing was excellent today and we really did control much of this game. The defence was pretty solid apart from the odd scare but as the game went on they got less. Carlos seemed to work well having Chris armstrong to aim at and Chris really did look like he was gonna get himself in lots of potential scoring positions. The goal looked like coming for a while before it did and when it did it was text book football, a perfect cross in from the left and Armstrong was there with a great header.

Armstrong ran to the crowd to celebrate his great header and a few of the lads ran to the front, joined by more fans and more players it turned into a group hug.

We created plenty more chances in the second half and went close with a couple. Dibble lost the ball when it slipped thro his hands at one stage but we recovered from that and he made for it much later when he made a point blank save.

Brentford had chances but it was the workman like performance from Wrexham that was the most pleasing. Actually I lie, the most pleasing thing about today is Chris Armstrong has now completed two full games and he looks like he is going to score goals. Stephen Thomas worked hard today but it is hard to say who didn't. We looked like a team who worked well together and even once we were one up we didnt take our foot off the peddle. It often felt like we were gonna be at least two up and even in the added on time we still took the game to them instead of sitting on it or wasting time.

The team out there look like they could be our team for the rest of the season if all goes well and they continue to work like that and link up so well. The possesion we had and the passing we did was very good today. If we keep up this we are in with a chance. Its 9 wins now away and I think Bournemouth havent lost at home so next week could be a cracker or maybe we are all due a draw.

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