Christian Norgaard was frustrated that Brentford let their lead slip against Leicester City on Saturday afternoon.

Mathias Jensen’s deflected effort put the Bees ahead at the end of an entertaining opening 45 minutes, but Harvey Barnes latched onto James Maddison’s defence-splitting pass and lifted over David Raya to level for the Foxes seven minutes after the restart.

Brendan Rodgers’ side went onto enjoy the better of the second half without testing David Raya on his 150th appearance for Brentford.

“We could have been up more than 1-0 but we didn’t manage to close the game out,” Norgaard began.

“You saw the quality they have for their goal. We knew they had that, so it was up to us to stop them from having the opportunity and the position to be able to do that.

“We take a point and learn. Now there’s a break for everyone to either recover or play for their national team. Then we go again.”

Norgaard hailed his Denmark colleague Jensen after the midfielder scored for the fourth time in five home games.

“He’s taken more responsibility,” said Norgaard. “With Christian [Eriksen] leaving, there was a gap to be filled.

“He’s been brilliant ever since the pre-season started in Germany. Credit to him. Hopefully he can keep it up.”

Norgaard also praised Mikkel Damsgaard – the third Dane in Brentford’s midfield three.

“You’re starting to see his improvement,” Norgaard added.

“He did really well against Fulham and today there were definitely some moments where he showed the quality that we know he has.

“We haven’t seen the best of him yet, but he’s slowly progressing to the player that we know he is.”

Having been booked before half-time, Norgaard had to tread carefully during the second half.

“It’s not ideal,” he admitted. “You think about it a lot for the first five minutes after getting a yellow and then you sort of forget it. I was lucky not to get booked a second time.

“I tried to a slide tackle on [James] Maddison, then Shandon [Baptiste] took over and got an unfortunate red card.

“I feel sorry for him, of course, but there were not many minutes left on the clock, so it didn’t make the biggest difference.”