All fans' questions 'answered emphatically'

Why can't Brentford win away from home? Why can't we score from corners? Why isn't Mikkel Damsgaard in the team? Why has Igor Thiago stopped scoring?

All these questions have been asked by Bees fans in recent weeks - all were answered emphatically in our first visit to Hill Dickinson Stadium on Sunday.

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While Thiago will deservedly get the headlines for his brilliant hat-trick, Damsgaard ran the show in his first start since our woeful performance and result at Tottenham.

Since then we are unbeaten in five Premier League games and Sunday was our best away win and performance of the season, given that the other two were at strugglers West Ham and Wolves.

Thiago took all his goals in true centre-forward style. He is such fun to watch - someone who genuinely seems to love what he is doing and to care about the club. His celebration after his second goal of climbing into the away end to celebrate with fans summed up what he is about.

Nathan Collins also finally ended our Premier League goal drought from corners when he headed in the second - a carbon copy of his Carabao Cup goal at Grimsby.

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A word too for long-serving Vitaly Janelt, who became the first player to reach 150 Premier League appearances for Brentford, against Spurs.

Janelt is one of those players every club needs - solid and unspectacular but also skilful and totally reliable.

After only playing a bit-part early on this season, he has now started six of the past seven games and again showed his worth. His pass for Thiago's first goal on Sunday was superb and it was also his corner from which Collins headed home.

Janelt is one of three players from our Championship days who is out of contract this summer - Mathias Jensen and Rico Henry are the others - and I would dearly love him, in fact all of them, to stay.

Find more from Ian Westbrook at Beesotted podcast