Development Squad manager Lee Carsley felt his players let themselves down with the performance in their 5-2 defeat to Bristol City on Monday afternoon.
The Bees went behind after two minutes as Connor Lemonhaigh-Evans grabbed the first of his three goals and were always playing catch-up.
Jermaine Udumaga scored twice for The Bees in the first-half to cancel out another Lemonhaigh-Evans effort and one from Bobby Reid but Reid made the game safe early on in the second-half.
Lemonhaigh-Evans completed his hat-trick late on as Lee’s side were soundly beaten.
Speaking to Bees Player after the match Lee said he felt his side were second best all afternoon against The Robins and deserved what they got.
The former Everton and Republic of Ireland midfielder said the important thing was to learn from what had gone wrong and make sure it didn’t happen again.
“I thought we were second best all over today,” said Lee.
“The goals were poor and down to some individual errors.
“It is important that we learn from these types of games.
“We had a couple of young players playing in defence today and they are going to make mistakes.
“These are the types of games that you want them to make the mistakes in so that they learn from them.
“We dealt with their set-up much better at home and having players like Sam Saunders and Nico Yennaris in the team helped.
“Today we didn’t deal with that well and both our full-backs struggled with players coming onto them in the full-back areas.
“Positionally we weren’t great and that is something we have to learn from.
“We will do a warm-down session in the morning and then a classroom session in the afternoon and we will go through the points they need to improve on.
“The frustrating bit for me is that they are a lot better than what they have shown today.
“They are going to get judged by the result but they are much better players than they have seen today.
“There would have been a lot of people watching today from other clubs, managers and coaches, and they haven’t given a good account of themselves and they haven’t given a good account of the club.
“That is the frustrating bit because they are better than what they have shown.
“The important bit for me though is that they learn from it.”
Bristol City, as they did in the return fixture back in November which Brentford won 5-1, lined up with a back three and wing-backs who looked to get forward at every opportunity.
The Bees lined up with a three of Charlie Adams, Jermaine Udumaga and Josh Clarke in behind Betinho as the lone striker.
Lee felt the system that The Robins employed should have suited his side as they could attack down either flank.
The Development Squad manager was pleased that Jermaine got himself on the scoresheet twice but felt in general that his side didn’t do enough with the opportunities they had going forward.
“The system that they set up with suited us and I felt we could get at them in the wide areas,” said Lee.
“I thought Josh Clarke started off well but without having any end product.
“I thought Charlie Adams was good at times and we saw glimpses of what he is about and Jermaine Udumaga scored two goals.
“His second goal was good and his first one was a penalty.
“He had a good chance at the end, which was probably the easiest chance of the lot of them, and I will talk to him about that because even though we have lost the game it would have been nice for him to get a hat-trick.
“There were some ok performances around the pitch but I keep saying to them ok is not going to be good enough.”
Lee named second-year scholar Audrius Laucys in the starting XI alongside 16-year-old Seth Owens, who made his first Development Squad start, with two more scholars in James Ferry and Kyjuon Marsh-Brown both on the bench.
After the match Lee revealed that some of the Development Squad players out of contract in the summer had already been told that they would not be offered a further contract.
With this is mind Lee said he expected to blood a number of Youth-Team players in the coming matches to build towards next season.
“Some of the first and second year professionals that we have know they won’t be getting professional contracts next season,” said Lee.
“It is important that we start to look forward to next season’s team and that some of the scholars can step up and show what they can do.
“I said last week that I want our performances need to reflect our results.
“I want to play well and I want to win games.
“I think they need to get into the habit where we find the right blend.
“In the past they have played well and lost but today we playing poorly and lost and we can’t just accept losing games.”
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