Goals from Kevin Schade and Yoane Wissa either side of half-time secured an incredibly impressive 2-0 win over Nottingham Forest at the City Ground.
Both goals came courtesy of clever balls over the top of the Forest defence, which the Bees duo latched onto and finished well to secure an important three points for the west Londoners.
Thomas Frank named an unchanged side from the one that beat Brighton and Hove Albion 4-2 in the Bees’ last game, looking to close the gap on the Premier League’s top eight and a potential UEFA Europa Conference League spot.
Brentford had the better of the opening stages of the match, with two headed efforts on goal troubling Nottingham Forest inside five minutes.
The first came courtesy of Schade, who did well at the back post to nod it back across the face of goal, but there was no Bees player there to finish, before it was put behind for a corner.
The subsequent set-piece was met by the head of Christian Nørgaard, who also sent it back across the six-yard box, before a Forest defender hurriedly cleared it off the line.
There was another aerial chance shortly after, on the 15-minute mark, when Sepp van den Berg beat the offside trap and firmly met a wide free-kick centrally inside the penalty area, but it was saved well by Mats Sels, who palmed it away.
The Bees’ pressure finally told on the brink of half-time, when a wonderful ball over the top from Nathan Collins was picked up by the chasing Schade inside the area, who beat Ola Aina to the ball and poked past Sels to put the visitors ahead.
The final kick of the half came courtesy of Mikkel Damsgaard, who picked up the ball on the edge of the box and curled towards the top right corner, but it went just over as the referee blew his whistle to signal the end of the first period.
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