Brentford arrive at Wolves in confident mood

Brentford, managed by former Walsall boss Dean Smith, handed out a 5-0 thrashing to Preston last Saturday on the back of drawing 1-1 away at Villa and winning 2-0 at Brighton.

The Bees are up to sixth in the table and hopes are high that they can top last year's ninth-place finish.

After facing the league's top scorers in Barnsley in their last home game, Wolves now host the team with the division's meanest defence.

Highly-rated young English keeper Daniel Bentley has conceded just five goals, but Brentford aren't short of attacking prowess in the form of former non-league striker Scott Hogan (who ended last season with seven in four games and notched a hat-trick versus Preston to take his tally to six this season), Crystal Palace loanee Sullay Kaikai, former Walsall star Romaine Sawyers and ex-Shrewsbury midfielder Ryan Woods.

And that's all without last year's star man Alan Judge, currently out with a long-term injury.

After a good start Smith said he wants to press home the importance of keeping a cool head throughout the coming months.

"It's been a positive week last week and another positive week this week," he said.

"The message that we get across to all the players in consistency. I have always said we don't get too high when we win and don't get too low when we get beat, so it's about remaining consistent in what we do.

"We want our levels of performance to be continuous but we also want to push each other to keep lifting the bar and getting better.

"It's something we are striving for at the moment and we know we won't get too many better weeks than we did last week.

"They were really good performances and great results off the back of them."

Brentford inflicted two of Wolves' worst defeats of the season on them last season, winning 2-0 at Molineux and then handing out a 3-0 trouncing at Griffin Park when the pressure on ex-boss Kenny Jackett was ratcheted up.

Smith won 1-0 at Molineux while he was Walsall boss.

And he said of Wolves: "Richard went to watch them against Barnsley and he said there was nothing in the game after 73 minutes, then Barnsley scored and went on to get four – it was a little bit like our performance against Preston on Saturday.

"Then they travel a long way up the road to Newcastle and go and get a fantastic result there, and then three days later in the same place they lose 2-0. That shows the inconsistencies of the game that there can be.

"We know that our level of performance has to be right for us to go and get something out of the game. It's what we work on week in week out; a level of hard work and performance.

"It's a difficult place to go but it's also a difficult place to play at home if you're not winning. I've got a decent record there, I've only taken one team there while at Walsall for a local derby and won 1-0 and I'd certainly take that result again.

"The players that we've got all believe that they can go play higher, in front of more fans.

"We are hoping that come a couple of years we'll all be playing in front of higher crowds in a higher league in a new stadium.

"The players enjoy going to these grounds where I think a lot of people don't expect us to go in there and put in the performances that we do or getting the results that we do."