Brentford v Tottenham Hotspur

Keith Andrews’ Brentford host Roberto De Zerbi’s Tottenham at the Gtech Community Stadium.

Brentford finished ninth in 2025/26; Tottenham endured a difficult season before De Zerbi helped secure safety.

This is the fixture where the head-to-head and the league table point in opposite directions, which makes it the most interesting record in the round.

Brentford finished eighth places above Tottenham last season. In the meetings themselves they have won once in eleven attempts since 2021 — Tottenham six, Brentford one, four drawn. Two independent sources give exactly the same eleven-match breakdown, which is rarer than it should be with this kind of data.

So the home side are demonstrably the better team on last season's evidence and demonstrably the worse team in this particular fixture. Brentford's single win in that run came at Tottenham, not at home. At the Gtech, they have drawn far more often than they have won.

• Brentford 0-0 Tottenham Hotspur — Premier League, January 2026.
• Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 Brentford — Premier League, December 2025.
• Brentford 0-2 Tottenham Hotspur — Premier League, February 2025.
• Tottenham Hotspur 3-1 Brentford — Premier League, September 2024.
• Tottenham Hotspur 3-2 Brentford — Premier League, early 2024.
• Brentford have not scored against Tottenham in their last three meetings. Sources agree on all five scorelines; exact dates differ by a day in places, so months are given.

Last season's league record, as a baseline rather than a prediction.

Brentford finished 9th in 2025/26 on 53 points (14W 11D 13L, 55 scored, 52 conceded). Tottenham Hotspur finished 17th in 2025/26 on 41 points (10W 11D 17L, 48 scored, 57 conceded).

BRYME is not publishing home-only and away-only splits for these sides yet. Those figures exist but have not been reconciled against an official source here, and a split quoted from memory is exactly the kind of number that quietly becomes wrong. The overall records above are verified against the final 2025/26 table; the home and away breakdowns will be added when sourced.

Provisional: the supplied packet flags multiple Tottenham attacking options as unavailable or limited, with Brentford’s list unconfirmed.

No suspensions affecting either side have been confirmed for this fixture at the time of writing.

This is a statement about what has been confirmed, not a guarantee that both squads are fully available. Bans carried over from last season and any late disciplinary decisions are checked again on matchday, and this section is updated if that changes.

De Zerbi’s possession approach faces Brentford’s organised home pressing and direct threat.

Tottenham’s midfield investment and De Zerbi’s first full campaign frame the fixture.

Brentford finished 9th on 53 points, Tottenham 17th on 41 — a twelve-point gap in the home side's favour, which inverts the usual assumption about this fixture.

Tottenham conceded 57 goals last season, the most of any side that avoided relegation. Brentford's 55 scored was the best of any club outside the top six. On last season's evidence the visitors are the ones who need to prove something, and a London club that finished 17th arriving at a well-organised side that finished 9th is not the mismatch the badges imply.

Tottenham have the higher-quality spine, but Brentford’s home record makes this a toss-up.

Brentford 1–1 Tottenham Hotspur