Brentford continued their impressive pre-season with a thrilling 2-0 victory over Premier League outfit Stoke City, which has seen winger Akaki Gogia claim that his new club can make further strides and claim promotion with their quest for Premier League football falling short last season.

23-year-old winger Gogia told the Local Guardian that the Bees must stay playing at the same level and "train hard every day", and thinks that the club can "make a big step... and maybe go up" this season if they stick to their guns.

Brentford won't be getting ahead of themselves

Despite the impressive win against Stoke, the Georgia-born winger, signed in the summer from German side FC Hallescher, was keen to express that the London club were keeping their feet firmly on the ground, admitting that the Championship side are "not at the same level" as Stoke, but have "a lot of good players in the squad".

Brentford boss Marinus Dijkhuizen was happy with his team's performance and said that his men ‘‘were by far the better side’’, and he was at huge ease with "the confidence of the players" being increased following such a scalp against a team of Premier League standard.

A pleasant surprise for Dijkhuizen

The boss continued and said there was still room for extra recruitments, even following the double arrival of Phillipp Hofmann and Lasse Vibe, with the Dutch manager "keeping an eye on the transfer market".

Dijkhuizen continued and spoke about how "surprised" he was with his team's outing in yesterday`s game. “It was the first time we played with that squad today. It surprised me in a positive way.”

Although the new signings and the impressive pre-season outings have got the Griffin Park faithful excited for the new season which is just around the corner, not all news delivered to the fans has been pleasing. 

It has been revealed that new signing and former Chelsea player, Josh McEachran, who recently signed for half a million pounds, will be missing for three months due to a collision with teammate Toumani Diagouraga which resulted in a broken foot for the Englishman.