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Topics: Jamie Carragher, Football, Sky Sports
Marcus Chan
Jamie Carragher has picked out one frustrating thing he has seen every Premier League club do this season.
On Monday night, Carragher was back in the Sky Sports studio as West Ham United hosted Brentford in the Premier League at the London Stadium.
Thanks to goals from Igor Thiago and Mathias Jensen, Brentford came away with a vital 2-0 win.
As a result, the Bees are now 13th in the Premier League table, with West Ham 19th as Nuno Espirito Santo's search for his first win as Hammers boss continues.
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Speaking after the match, Carragher spoke about the fact that he is getting frustrated with the amount of long throws creeping into the Premier League.
As per Sky Sports, the number of long throws into an opponent's box has averaged at 1.38 since the 15/16 season.
However, so far in the 25/26 campaign, the number has skyrocketed to 3.85.
When talking about Brentford's use of long throws, which has been in play since the Thomas Frank days, Carragher said: "If you think of the success they had through the manager now, Keith Andrews, in terms of long throws, we highlighted that before the game.
"I'm at a situation with long throws where I understand teams in the bottom half of the table or fighting relegation do a long throw because they never had the quality to get the entries into the box because you need to get in the box to get a chance to score goals."
He added: "And, I used to actually want to see the long throws against the top teams, how would Liverpool cope with it, Manchester City, to see how they deal with it.
"I am frustrated with the fact that I feel every team this season has taken a long throw at some stage. The numbers are off the scale."
Speaking about long throws last month, Brentford boss Keith Andrews said: "I think sometimes there's a snobbery in the game (with long throws).
"I think if you have it at your disposal, especially with the level that we can get with it, it would be very silly not to use it."