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Andrews on Henderson's return, European dreams and Guardiola

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Brentford boss Keith Andrews has been speaking to the media before Saturday's Premier League game against Manchester City at Etihad Stadium (kick-off 17:30 BST). Here are the key lines from his news conference: On team news, Andrews confirmed Vitaly Janelt is a "little bit closer" after returning to the squad last weekend and Jordan Henderson will be involved after an injury lay-off, while Rico Henry is "back on the grass but will not be involved tomorrow". He said the squad have had a "really good week" and training has had a "really good energy around it".

On being close to the Champions League places, Andrews responded: "We've got a lot of work to do over the next three games to put ourselves in a position of anything like that. The focus is on tomorrow first and foremost. We're obviously running out of games and we want to finish the season really well.

" He added: "Tomorrow is going to be really difficult but we want to go and show what a good team we are. " On whether he watched Manchester City's 3-3 draw with Everton and learned anything from it: "They're an amazing team. The way they play, how they can hurt you, tweaks that Pep [Guardiola] makes to the team in trying to unlock the opposition and the level of top-quality players they have among their team.

You can see the quality of the finishes the other night. If it's not one player one week, it's a different player the next week. " He added: "I think you always learn things about the opposition but I think it will be a completely different game.

" On it being a bigger game for title-chasing City than the Bees, similar to what happened last week when they beat relegation-threatened West Ham, Andrews said he's aware of the narrative: "But for us it's huge. There's only a few games left now, we've got our own agenda, we always have and we really want to push that. " He added: "It should be really difficult tomorrow but we should be going there in a place where we have a level of confidence to know that we can perform against a team like City.