Brentford 7-2 Wycombe Wanderers: Ivan Toney scores hat-trick for the Bees
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Defender Ethan Pinnock scored his first league goal of the season for Brentford to open the scoring
Ivan Toney scored a hat-trick as Brentford hammered bottom club Wycombe to go third in the Championship table.
Ethan Pinnock's early opener was swiftly cancelled out by an individual goal from Wycombe's Uche Ikpeazu before Toney restored the Bees' lead.
Admiral Muskwe headed home to make it 2-2 at half-time, but Fosu struck again before Toney's penalty gave the home side some breathing space.
Sergi Canos scored the Bees' fifth before Toney snatched his second of the game and Josh Dasilva also found the net late on.
The victory extended Brentford's unbeaten run to 18 league games, while the Chairboys are now seven points adrift at the bottom.
Brentford immediately seized the initiative, with Ryan Allsop denying both Saman Ghoddos and Toney before the breakthrough arrived in the ninth minute.
Mathias Jensen swung over a corner and Pinnock arrived at the far post to bundle home a left-foot finish.
But the Bees' advantage lasted only five minutes as Ikpeazu collected the ball with his back to goal and evaded three defenders before curling an inch-perfect shot beyond the diving David Raya into the far corner.
The home side went back in front when Allsop got a hand to Toney's volley but the ball dropped over the line just before Fosu forced it into the net to make sure.
Again, however, the Chairboys hit back immediately as skipper Darius Charles headed back Jason McCarthy's free-kick for Muskwe, on loan from Leicester, to nod his first Wycombe goal two minutes before half-time.
But the Bees were dominant after the break, with Toney setting up Fosu to drill his second before Fred Onyedinma was penalised for a late challenge on Canos.
Toney stroked home the spot-kick and, although Muskwe and Ikpeazu squandered chances to reduce the deficit, Brentford applied some gloss to the scoreline with three more goals in the last 10 minutes.
Dasilva's teasing run down the right set up Canos to sweep home the Bees' fifth goal and the midfielder added the seventh himself, sandwiched by Toney's run and finish.
Brentford head coach Thomas Frank told BBC London 94.9:
"We know when we play against Wycombe they are very energetic, very aggressive, pressing and physical, which I have the biggest respect for and we needed to handle that.
"First half I think offensively we were very good in terms of creating chances and goals. Defensively I'd say we were poor, but I also think Wycombe were good.
"They did what they can very, very well and they're a very difficult team to play against. They made it very difficult for us the first time we played them and it was 0-0.
"But I like our improvement from the first game. To score seven goals is incredible, so big praise to the players."
Wycombe manager Gareth Ainsworth told BBC Three Counties Radio:
"We lost our concentration in the second half. We let the two early goals affect us too much.
"I think those two goals were both poor decisions by the referee and we've let that affect us. We lost our focus on what we were good at in the first half."
"We had a plan and it worked in the first half, we did really well, but we let Brentford run away with the game after feeling hard done by with those two goals."