If Brentford were ugly in beating Sheffield United for their first win since January, they were not in Luton on Saturday to record successive victories for the first time since November.
So often this season Bryan Mbeumo has proven to be the answer to where Brentford’s threat comes from in the absence of Ivan Toney, and in the 5-1 rout at Kenilworth Road his three assists ensured that the old saying about London buses lived on. .
Yoane Wissa was lethal with his first-half brace and deserves plenty of praise for his role in further banishing the tendrils of relegation, but Mbeumo was a brilliant asset to his tormentor-in-chief title.
This side of the Hatters inspires many romantic notions about the brave underdog, but Rob Edwards and company are quickly running out of opportunities to write the most impressive chapter yet in what is already a fairy tale of epic proportions.
Otherwise the chants will continue to persist, and with two more games to play here you almost find yourself believing them, but the repeated performances from Saturday’s 5-1 thrashing of Brentford do not inspire the greatest confidence.
Yoane Wissa scored a first-half brace as Brentford secured a convincing victory over Luton.
Wissa opened the scoring at Kenilworth Road when he managed to find the net in the 24th minute.
Wissa increased Brentford’s lead in first-half stoppage time to cause further problems for Luton.
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The Bees were at their attacking best in the first half, lending a hand to a first win on the way to a team newly promoted this season at half-time thanks to Mbeumo and Wissa.
The visitors blew up the blocks, with Ethan Pinnock and Keane Lewis-Potter going close in an electric eight minutes for Brentford, while Alfie Doughty stung the palms of Mark Flekken in a quick response for the hosts.
Albert Sambi Lokonga, on loan from Arsenal, was Luton’s beating heart throughout, his ability to break lines in transition with deceptive ease and seemingly effortless, but the Bees remained the dominant force in the early stages.
Having squandered a golden opportunity, Lewis-Potter saw a point-blank header saved by Thomas Kaminski before the home side frantically scrambled away from the ensuing corner. If they were already knocking on the door, Brentford had now started hammering.
And it soon bore fruit. Luton ignored his warnings and in the 24th minute Wissa had the ball in the back of the net with a curling first shot from the edge of the area past Kaminski to take a deserved lead.
The Bees, inspired by Mbeumo, kept Luton under heavy siege and Kristoffer Ajer went close to third within half an hour with a towering header from a corner.
To make matters worse, Luton lost Issa Kabore in the 32nd minute to injury, and the blitz continued. Mbeumo was denied a second by the crossbar for Brentford, but his hard work soon paid off.
The Cameroonian star again fed Wissa for his tenth of the season, and his strike partner scored one of the trickiest goals he has ever scored in added time of perhaps the most dominant half Brentford have had in the whole season.
Luton were dejected and the defeat left them in the relegation zone.
Ethan Pinnock celebrates after his 62nd minute goal added to Brentford’s lead
Keane Lewis-Potter scored soon after to make it 4-0 to Brentford.
A half-time change saw Luton revert to a back four and they looked more defensively determined immediately after the break, at least for the first 17 minutes before a two-minute double whammy on the Hatters.
The visitors had lost some of their rhythm since the first half, but Pinnock restored their dominance with a thumping header from Sergio Reguilon’s corner in the 62nd minute, before Lewis-Potter converted Mbeumo’s third assist of the afternoon. at the far post to score. It’s four o’clock, and the visitors didn’t seem to be calling it a day any time soon.
Mbeumo continued to press for the goal he so richly deserved, twisting and turning into a shooting position on the right of the box, but his shot lacked the venom needed to evade Kaminski, who was well to his left.
Mbeumo (who else) was heavily involved in the eventual fifth goal, playing with Vitaliy Janelt, who simply flicked the ball into the acres of space to his left for Kevin Schade to score powerfully in the 86th minute into the empty net, but It was the hosts who had the last laugh.
Carlton Morris charged with a loose pass on the edge of the area before rounding Flekken and feeding Luke Berry, who tapped home to spark a first and still impressive equalizer roar from the Kenilworth Road faithful.
Kevin Schade, who had entered the fray as a substitute, scored Brentford’s fifth goal against Luton
Luke Berry scored a late consolation goal for Luton in their 5-1 defeat to Brentford.
Luton manager Rob Edwards was left dejected as his team suffered a heavy defeat.
