Thomas Frank believes the 2 matches Brentford had postponed supplied the Covid-19 circuit breaker that he hoped could be launched.
Frank was the primary Premier League boss to suggest a break within the fixtures to ensure that golf equipment to take care of potential outbreaks.
However in a gathering on Monday, Premier League golf equipment determined there ought to be no suspension over the festive season.
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Nevertheless, Brentford’s matches towards Manchester United and Southampton have been known as off as a result of virus whereas Chelsea, Wednesday night time’s opponents within the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup, needed to play on regardless of requesting a postponement towards Wolves on Sunday.
Blues boss Thomas Tuchel now faces having to show to a bunch of academy merchandise to plug the hole left by his Covid absentees.
However Frank believes his squad is now in a very good place, saying: “We’ll put 11 gamers out, that’s for certain.
“It was a very good factor to postpone the spherical; six video games have been postponed and clearly Thomas Tuchel was fairly sad with their recreation happening so it might have been seven.
Brentford boss Thomas Frank has known as for the Premier League to postpone the complete spherical of fixtures this weekend ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/RzOfKUcfur
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“But when we give attention to ourselves, it helped us massively to interrupt the circuit of transmission of the virus.
“So from six or seven instances on Thursday, to Saturday we solely had one, zero on Monday and 0 at present. So we’re positively in a tremendous place.”
Frank says he was not stunned that the choice was taken to hold on taking part in regardless of the rise in instances.
“No, as a result of what I steered was only one spherical, to interrupt that circuit, clear the coaching floor, restrict the contact between gamers and employees,” he added.
“I believe all of us need to keep on with soccer.”
Brentford reached the semi-finals of the League Cup final yr and Frank, who ought to have striker Ivan Toney again after his bout of Covid, needs one other crack.
“From the start of this season we needed to progress so far as doable,” he stated.
“Actually, we need to go all the way in which. It’s one recreation at a time and the subsequent recreation is towards the European winners. We had a unbelievable recreation towards them two months in the past.
“It’s already a press release that we’re within the quarter-finals. We’d by no means made the semi-finals till final yr. Can we do this another time? That might be an enormous assertion.
“I can say we’ll put a full workforce on the market. I don’t know what Chelsea will do.
“We proved in all our video games to this point this season that we are able to compete. I believe a quarter-final, towards Chelsea, a neighborhood derby below the lights, it’s Christmas – possibly a bit of Christmas miracle, what’s to not like?”