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‘My biggest defeat as a manager’: Ainsworth says shipping seven goals to Brentford ‘not acceptable’
Brentford put Wycombe to the sword with five increasingly effortless second-half goals after a close 45 minutes
Brentford's Ivan Toney (centre) celebrates scoring his side's fourth of seven goals against Wycombe Wanderers

Brentford 7-2 Wycombe
by Dan Nolan
at Brentford Community Stadium

AFTER sharing first-half honours with promotion contenders Brentford, Gareth Ainsworth says Wycombe’s collapse to 7-2 was a shock, not acceptable, near-embarrassing — but that the buck stops with him. 

“Today, if I’m honest, I knew it would be very tough coming to Brentford,” the Chairboys manager said after Saturday’s beating in west London. “But at half-time there was no way I saw 7-2 coming. Absolutely no way.

“I’m shocked as anyone to see those five goals in the second half. We had a couple of chances — it could have been 7-4, 7-5 — but 7-2 is not acceptable.”

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