A few years in the past, Ivan Toney joked that if he had a pound for each time he had heard Ollie Watkins’s title, he would be capable of go on a Monopoly-style rampage and snap up half of London.On the time, Toney was on his option to breaking the Championship’s scoring report (since annihilated by Aleksandar Mitrovic), firing Brentford to promotion in his first season on the membership after signing from Peterborough the earlier summer time as a alternative for Watkins, who was making waves within the Premier League after a transfer to Aston Villa.For that cause, the pair’s careers have typically appeared indirectly intertwined, Toney apparently following within the footsteps cast by his predecessor. Forward of their newest assembly at Villa Park on Sunday, nevertheless, there may be little doubt as to who’s coming off greatest in any comparisons as of late.Watkins, like just about all of his Aston Villa team-mates, is off form and low on confidence, scoring simply as soon as in 924 minutes of Premier League soccer for a goal-shy facet who parted firm with supervisor Steven Gerrard after final night time’s defeat at Fulham, having reached double figures in every of his first two top-flight campaigns.In-form Bees star Ivan Toney has cast effectively forward of Brentford predecessor Ollie Watkins / Getty ImagesRead MoreToney is on the cusp of matching that feat solely 1 / 4 of the way in which via his second, with eight already this time period. The 26-year-old has emerged as a talismanic determine, sporting the captain’s armband in latest weeks whereas Pontus Jansson and Christian Norgaard are sidelined via harm, and scoring 44 per cent of the Bees’ League targets, the best proportion of any participant within the division bar Manchester Metropolis’s Erling Haaland, (45 per cent).It’s why Toney, regardless of being denied a world debut final month, stays a agency contender for a World Cup place and Watkins, who has seven caps and scored for England as just lately as March, seems nowhere close to.