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Thomas Frank’s side suffered a heavy defeat at the hands of the Premier League leaders, with the opening goal coming from a mistake from Sergio Reguilon in the first-half.

Virgil van Dijk made a clearance which seemed to catch the Bees off-guard as Reguilon and Diogo Jota ran towards the halfway line. The next outfield player closest to the Brentford goal was Darwin Nunez, so it was imperative that the Spurs loanee won the ball.

Sergio Reguilon criticised after Brentford loss

However, Reguilon got it all wrong. The Spaniard seemingly wanted to try and volley the ball away. But that allowed Jota the time to get his head on the pass. And that header set Nunez on his way to run through and chip a sumptuous effort over Mark Flekken.

And speaking to ESPN, Frank Leboeuf suggested that Reguilon should have done so much better with van Dijk’s ball over the top.

“I never felt they were in danger, they were strong defensively, they knew how to play. As the guys said, they had so many gifts from Brentford,” he said.

“The first goal, you have to see how Reguilon tries to defend. He doesn’t even try to go for the header with Jota. Jota does very well, he’s very clever, he knows exactly what he has to do. But Reguilon doesn’t know anything about what he has to do. He tries to kick the ball with his left foot where the ball is in the air. So it’s a nightmare.”