Wolves vs Brentford Live Stream, Predictions (May 25)

📏 Form Guide

Wolverhampton Wanderers

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Wolves will be hoping to bounce back here following a 4-2 Premier League losing effort in their last game against Crystal Palace.

In that match, Wolverhampton Wanderers had 68% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 3 on target. For Wolverhampton Wanderers, the goalscorers were Emmanuel Agbadou (24') and Jorgen Strand Larsen (62'). Crystal Palace had 13 shots at goal with 10 on target. Eddie Nketiah (27', 32'), Ben Chilwell (50') and Eberechi Eze (86') scored for Crystal Palace.

Over their preceding six fixtures, Vítor Pereira's Wolverhampton Wanderers have hit the back of the net 10 times - an average number of goals per match equal to 1.67.

Coming into this clash, Wolverhampton Wanderers have not emerged victorious against Brentford in their previous 2 league matches.

Brentford

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Following on from a losing effort in their last game against Fulham in Premier League competition, Brentford and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that game, Brentford managed 50% possession and 11 shots on goal with 6 on target. For Brentford, the goalscorers were Bryan Mbeumo (22') and Yoane Wissa (43'). On the other side, Fulham had 16 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. Raúl Jiménez (16'), Tom Cairney (68') and Harry Wilson (70') scored for Fulham.

Showing their predisposition for high-scoring encounters, goals have been celebrated 23 times in the last six matches in which Brentford have sent out their troops, giving an average of 3.83 goals per clash. Opposing teams have got 9 of these goals. That kind of pattern isn’t assured to be carried forward into this next game, of course.

Going into this encounter, Brentford are undefeated in their last 3 away league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their prior head-to-head meetings dating back to 15/04/2023 shows that Wolves have won 3 of them and Brentford 2, with the number of drawn games being 1.

Loads of goals were seen in those games, too - 24 in total which averages out at 4 goals per meeting.

The previous league match featuring these clubs was Premier League match day 7 on 05/10/2024 when it finished Brentford 5-3 Wolverhampton Wanderers.

On that occasion, Brentford had 44% possession and 19 attempts on goal with 12 on target. The goalscorers were Nathan Collins (2'), Bryan Mbeumo (20'), Christian Nørgaard (28'), Ethan Pinnock (45') and Fábio Carvalho (90').

Wolverhampton Wanderers had 16 shots at goal with 6 on target. Matheus Cunha (4'), Jorgen Strand Larsen (26') and Rayan Aït-Nouri (93') scored.

The referee was Andrew Madley.

📋 Team News: Wolves

Sasa Kalajdzic (Cruciate ligament tear), Sam Johnstone (unknown injury), Yerson Mosquera (Cruciate ligament tear) and Enso González (Cruciate ligament tear) will not be able to play for Wolves manager Vítor Pereira.

It looks as if Wolves may well opt for a 3-4-2-1 formation in the match, beginning the first half with Jose Sa, Matt Doherty, Emmanuel Agbadou, Toti Gomes, Nélson Semedo, Joao Gomes, André Trindade, Rayan Ait Nouri, Marshall Munetsi, Matheus Cunha and J. Strand Larsen.

📋 Team News: Brentford

Brentford boss Thomas Frank has a number of players out of action. Fábio Carvalho (Shoulder injury), Josh Dasilva (Knee surgery) and Vitaly Janelt (Heel injury) will not be playing here.

We’re of the thinking that The Bees could decide to begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 formation, giving starts to Mark Flekken, Kristoffer Ajer, Nathan Collins, Sepp van den Berg, Keane Lewis-Potter, Yegor Yarmolyuk, Christian Nørgaard, Bryan Mbeumo, Mikkel Damsgaard, Kevin Schade and Yoane Wissa.

💭 Prediction

We believe that Brentford and Wolverhampton Wanderers should end up playing out a closely-fought contest here.

Shouldn’t be much in it, and there should be goals with a draw being quite a realistic outcome. We’re therefore seeing a great battle with a score draw at full-time.

📖 ⚽️ What are the best odds for this match?

Looking at what the bookmakers’ view is of this game on the WDW market, the win for Wolverhampton Wanderers can be had for 2.8, a bet on a drawn result is 3.7 & betting on a win for Brentford comes in at 2.35. They’re the top market prices on offer at this very moment.

Peter Guest, 10:01 21/05/2025