Wycombe Wanderers 0-0 Brentford: Rare clean sheet for Chairboys
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Bryan Mbeumo came closest to breaking the deadlock, hitting the woodwork for Brentford
Wycombe kept only their second clean sheet since promotion to the Championship as they frustrated Brentford at Adams Park.
The visitors had the best chance when Bryan Mbeumo's shot on 28 minutes was brilliantly tipped on to the post by Wycombe keeper Ryan Allsop.
His opposite number, David Raya, came to the fore late on as he saved from Daryl Horgan's volley.
Jay Dasilva went close in stoppage time for Brentford but his effort went narrowly wide.
This was the first league meeting between these two sides since the Bees did the double over Wycombe in League One in the 2011-12 campaign - and the home side had boss Gareth Ainsworth back on the touchline after missing three games following surgery on his back.
The previous encounter saw Brentford emerge 5-2 winners but there was no threat of a repeat as both drew blanks.
Raya had to claw Curtis Thompson's cross off his own line and later denied Scott Kashket, while Bees centre-back Pontus Jansson headed straight at Allsop, whose moment of the match saw him fly to his right to deny Mbuemo.
David Wheeler and Horgan both went close for Wycombe in the second half, but they could not prevent a first goalless draw at home for the Chairboys since February 2019.
Wycombe remain 22nd in the table, a point from safety, while Brentford slip to 11th after a fifth draw of the season.
Chairboys manager Gareth Ainsworth told BBC Three Counties Radio:
"I'd have taken 0-0 at half-time but I thought we were the better side in the second half. We've had the chances and we were the aggressors.
"But to take a point off what I think is one of the best teams in the league - one game off the Premier League last season - is a great result.
"I'd have taken a point before the game and I'm really pleased with the application today."
Brentford head coach Thomas Frank said:
"I think Wycombe deserve some praise. They made it very difficult for us, they pressed us very well and played with a big intensity throughout the game.
"We didn't manage to create enough dangerous situations. We created three big chances and if we take one of them we win.
"We did enough to win the game, but not enough to make 100 per cent sure of that. In the final third I think we lacked that composure, and I just think on the day we just simply didn't have that flair."