Brentford lastly picked up their first away win of the season on the tenth try after hammering bottom-of-the-table Southampton 5-0.
The Bees’ final win on the street within the Premier League got here on Could 11 after they beat Bournemouth 2-1, and two objectives from Bryan Mbeumo – in addition to one every from Kevin Schade, Keane Lewis-Potter and Yoane Wissa – ended their lengthy drought in fashion.
Southampton stay rooted to the underside of the desk, 10 factors from security, because of this. They’ve now misplaced all three of Ivan Juric’s video games in cost, conceding eight objectives and scoring only one.
Brentford – accurately, in hindsight – sensed a possibility and set about taking management of the sport from the off, so it was no shock after they had been already within the lead after simply six minutes.
Mikkel Damsgaard beat Joe Aribo to the ball, nudged it previous Lesley Ugochukwu and launched a fantastic thing about a go that Kevin Schade met first time to divert previous Aaron Ramsdale.
It appeared a second would observe shortly after. Wissa compelled a few saves from Ramsdale, Christian Norgaard headed onto the crossbar and Damsgaard struck inches large after sweeping the ball away from Ugochukwu with nice ability.
The Bees couldn’t discover a method to double their lead, although, and Saints despatched a well timed reminder of how shortly a sport can change simply earlier than the break when Aribo teed up Tyler Dibling to lash inches previous the publish.
However the screw began to show early within the second half. Sepp van den Berg had a second dominated out after Wissa’s foul on Jan Bednarek was noticed by VAR, earlier than Wissa blazed over when Schade’s flicked header put him by way of one-on-one.
It was 2-0 when Bryan Mbeumo and Wissa intuitively linked up, with the previous smashing a lay-off excessive into the roof of the web – and Mbeumo made it three when he completed from the penalty spot after Ugochukwu’s clumsy foul on Van den Berg.
There was no approach again after that, but it surely obtained worse for the stricken Saints in second-half stoppage time.
Lewis-Potter took benefit of an premature slip by Harwood-Bellis to make it 4 after being picked out by Mbeumo and Wissa added the gloss inside two minutes, coolly dispatching his tenth of the season after Yuki Sugawara headed the ball straight into his path.
Southampton stay rooted to the underside of the Premier League desk
