Oh yes they can. They most certainly can. So let it happen.
Alexander Isak and Callum Wilson might both be international centre-forwards, who because of what it says on the tin Eddie Howe has staunchly resisted starting in harness, but together at Brentford they turned a potential dire defeat into glorious victory.
In the shadow of Heathrow, they were high flyers in an unrecognisable Newcastle second-half revival which produced a fifth successive Premier League maximum return.