BRENTFORD boss Thomas Frank said Gary O’Neil and his staff had done a “very good job” since taking charge at Cherries and added the Dorset outfit “work unbelievably hard”.

The Danish coach was speaking after his Bees were held to a 0-0 draw with interim boss O’Neil’s Cherries at Vitality Stadium on Saturday.

The result meant O’Neil was now four games unbeaten since taking over from sacked Scott Parker back in August, picking up six points in the process.

“I think it was a tight game. I think Gary O’Neil and his staff have done a very good job,” said Frank, after his side shared the spoils on the south coast.

“Four games unbeaten, very difficult to break down, difficult to create chances against. They work unbelievably hard.

“If there should have been a narrow winner, I think it should have been us. I think we had the better chances – Pontus Jansson, Kristoffer (Ajer), free headers. (Mikkel) Damsgaard could finish and Ivan (Toney) had three or four half chances.

“But we just didn’t have the quality. For me, we lacked the quality from more or less all my offensive players.”

Former West Ham and Portsmouth midfielder O’Neil has been linked with both Huddersfield and Middlesbrough during his interim spell at Cherries.

Asked whether he should get the role at Vitality Stadium full-time, Frank said: “That’s not up to me to answer! Of course, I watched the three games they played. In many ways, very impressive performances and in football, sometimes you get an opportunity that you didn’t see coming.

“It could be one of them. We all, of course I, myself only got better with more and more experience.

“Gary maybe doesn’t have the most experience as a head coach, but if you have a skillset as a coach and tried a lot, and he had a good playing career as well, then why not?”