Keeper Dan Bentley hopes Brentford's switch to five at the back will have the same impact it did at Southend last year.
The Bees played with three centre backs and flying full backs against Birmingham last week, and while the result didn't follow , the performance did, and their shaped looked a lot better.
Bentley insists it makes little difference to him what kind of defence lines up in front of him, and he is equally happy playing in front of a back four or five.
He said: “It doesn't make too much difference to me – it almost becomes a four anyway when one of the full backs goes forward and the other tucks in.
“It took us a while to adjust to the system last week, which is only natural, but I think we took to it really well on the whole, and the goals we conceded weren't down to our shape.
“I'm equally confident behind a back five or back four. I played behind a back five at Southend, so it's something I'm used to.
“We had some bad results last year and conceded a few goals, so the manager switched to a back five and it worked.
“We were looking to close the floodgates, ended up being a lot more assured at the back and picked up some good results. Hopefully the same will happen here.”
Many theories have been put forward as to why Brentford somehow lost to Birmingham after dominating the game, but Bentley feels it's important not to over-analyse things, and instead concentrate on cutting out the uncharacteristic defensive sloppiness.
He added: “It's important not to dwell on what has happened too much, and I don't think it calls for a huge amount of analysis. If we move forward and keep striving to play the way we want to play, I'm sure the results will come.
“The goals we have conceded these past couple of weeks have been two penalties, two set pieces and an own goal, and these are goals we weren't conceding at the start of the season.
“They're sloppy goals which may be down to individual mistakes or collective errors. We need to get back to defending as a unit from the front, as there's times we have been too easily exposed in the last few games.
“Everybody is on a learning curve, and you learn more about yourself when things aren't going so well. But there is every faith in the dressing room in the form we know we can produce, as we done it earlier in the season. A couple of bad results doesn't make a bad team.”
