Kevin Schade seals victory for Brentford in six-goal thriller against Newcastle | Premier League

A game almost as wild as the wind in which it was played ended with Brentford claiming their seventh win in eight unbeaten home games, fending off the cauldron that Newcastle had held over them: the last team here Last season, the visitors were Brentford’s 25th and last Premier League opponents to be beaten.

Brentford took and lost the lead twice, but when they took the lead for the third time their grip proved tighter and in the final minute they made the game secure. Substitute Kevin Schade was found just outside the penalty area by Bryan Mbeumo; His first touch took him out of defense and his second ball sent him past Nick Pope.

In the first half Brentford led twice and twice they were pegged back in short order, holding the lead for three minutes at the first attempt and four minutes at the second. Given the strong, chilly winds, punctuated by occasional showers, this never seemed to be an occasion for a demonstration of control, and certainly neither side suggested that they could bring one about. It was a mess, but nothing short of entertaining. The tone was set when Sean Longstaff, returning to Newcastle in place of Sandro Tonali, smashed a 20-yard drive against the crossbar in just the second minute.

Under the circumstances, a certain amount of errors were to be expected – the question was to what extent these would be punished. There were two in the first half, one on each side, but only one took advantage. In the first case, Nathan Collins was at fault when he failed to keep out a long ball from the Newcastle defense and lost it to Alexander Isak, who ran upfield from the right, danced past Mark Flekken, but then was so casual with his finish that As he thought about how To ensure the ball evaded the one defender standing unprotected on the goal line, the Dutchman managed to climb back, reach out a hand and push the ball away from him.

Exactly 10 minutes later, under light pressure, Harvey Barnes played a 20-yard side-footed pass straight to Yoane Wissa, who was in the middle of Newcastle’s half, who turned and ran towards the visitors’ penalty area. Since neither Fabian Schär nor Dan Burn agreed to stop him, he continued running to the 18-yard line before firing a shot into the far corner. Luckily for Barnes, Brentford’s defense was similarly sleepy when a pullback from Jacob Murphy ended up in the penalty area in the 32nd minute and he had time to control, turn and shoot a low shot across goal and just inside the far post to complete the team’s second goal exchange.

Brentford had taken the lead for the first time in the eighth minute after captain Christian Nørgaard, back in the team after missing the midweek defeat at Aston Villa, fired a fine pass to Mbeumo on the right. His control was superb, Lewis Hall’s marking was half-hearted and the Cameroonian dribbled almost unhindered into the center of Newcastle’s penalty area before finding the corner of the net. Three minutes later, Isak leaned to the edge of the six-yard box to meet Murphy’s cross from the right with his left foot and the teams were level again.

Eleven minutes into the second half the home side took the lead back, Collins’ wonderfully calm finish incongruously capping the classic build-up to a stormy day. Flekken fired a free-kick forward from well inside his own half, Igor Thiago distracted the defense by narrowly missing the header and no-one touched the ball as it skipped through to Collins, whose soft side-footed shot sent him rolling out of Pope’s reach brought.

In the hunt for a third equalizer, Newcastle brought on Tonali, Kieran Trippier, who had just recovered from illness, and Anthony Gordon, who was in the matchday squad but not in the starting eleven for the first time in more than nine months, and everyone was involved in their best chance of reaching the equalizer. Trippier’s free kick was half cleared to Gordon, whose high pass landed Isak on the right. A cross from the Swede landed Tonali, who headed it well over the crossbar from eight meters.

But still Brentford were more threatening and eventually it was Newcastle who were overwhelmed. Two minutes into injury time the home side almost scored their fifth goal, but Dan Burn cleared off the line after Pope lingered on the ball well outside his penalty area and Mbeumo stole it from him.