A game almost as wild as the wind it was played in ended with Newcastle getting blown away, as Brentford claimed a seventh win in eight unbeaten home games and in the process cast off the hex these opponents had held over them. The last side to win here, by the same score on the final day of last season, and not beaten by the Bees in the league since 1948, this time Newcastle crumbled. It means Brentford have now beaten all 25 teams they have faced in the Premier League at least once.
In the first half Brentford led twice and twice they were pinned back in short order, but Nathan Collins put them back ahead in the 56th minute and this time they held firm. In the end the visitors conceded four and there could have been more: two minutes into stoppage time Dan Burn got back to stop Bryan Mbeumo’s shot going in after Nick Pope had lingered on and lost the ball outside his area, a moment that capped a defensive display of ever increasing raggedness.
