Brentford actually played a defensive game in the second half, just like you said. Chelsea did exactly what you said in the second half. Chelsea scored twice in the second half to take the lead against Brentford, but Brentford levelled up against Chelsea in additional time to deny Chelsea all three points. Well before Brentford vs Chelsea started, I already made it clear in this thread that Chelsea wouldn't defeat Brentford, and the game played as I expected.
Chelsea did everything they could but in the end luck was not on their side. At first I thought Chelsea would play with confidence because they won their previous 2 matches but Brentford know how to handle Chelsea, this draw brings Chelsea down to 4th place and this is also an indication that they are not fully ready to compete or maybe we should wait for them to fully adapt. Chelsea next challenge will be playing away against Manchester United, I can't predict anything because I think both teams are in almost the same situation.
I don’t think it was about luck, I always said this Chelsea team aren’t good enough, every team has a game plan and Brentford showed there game plan, Chelsea doesn’t deserve to win that game because Brentford showed up a real fight for a football game, Chelsea aren’t fully prepared to fight for the Premier League, the Premier League isn’t like the Pre-Season club World Cup, where they have to play this Brazilian team and played a tired Paris-Saint-German, I think because of that Competition Chelsea and their fans felt they’re good enough to play and win the Premier League, You don’t just win a Premier League with making so many changes in your squad, just like what they have done each and every season, I doubt if this Chelsea team is going to qualify from the Champions League group stages, because they obviously looks like a conference league team.
looking at the Chelsea game against Brentford last night one can sense that the coach is obviously prioritizing their champions league match against Bayern Munich this Wednesday. If not for underrating the Brentford team, tell me why will a coach will have to Bench his best players in the likes of Reece James, Cole Palmer, Cucurella etc and then start with new signings such as Gittens, Buenanotte and Hato. Not that those his best players he chose to bench are not fit enough to play because obviously they all played well during the recent international breaks where Cucurella even scored his first goal for Spain and Reece James started and finished all the 2 games for England and performed extremely well, even made an assist. For me I think the coach got it wrong by gambling with his starting 11 because it was when they conceded in the first half he now brought them on and the game changed and Chelsea equalized through Cole Palmer and also scored their second goal through Caicedo which they were on course to winning the game before Brentford scored very late in the game which cost Chelsea not to run away with all 3 points. This Chelsea team is a good team and not really a conference league team as you are trying to describe them, is just that the coach loves giving everyone an opportunity to play and prove themselves and I believe with what happened last night the lesson is well learnt. This Chelsea team is capable of beating any team on a good day with their best players starting and finishing the game, we all have witnessed it in the club World Cup finals where they tactically outplayed and won a very Good PSG side with 3:0. Well, it hurts to concede so late in the game and cost Chelsea losing 2 points but they can take positive from the fact that Cole Palmer is back scoring goal to silence his doubters who said he haven’t scored an open goal for over some months now, and also to see Caicedo shooting more and scoring a screamer. I believe now they will be fully ready for the Game against Bayern Munich because that was the plan to keep them fully fit and fresh for that very champions league game against a very good Bayern Munich side.