Lasse Vibe scored twice as Brentford trounced Aston Villa while the Midlands club were finalising the signing of the Bees’ top scorer Scott Hogan.
Vibe neatly chipped home early on before Nico Yennaris doubled the home side’s lead before half-time.
Villa went close through Jonathan Kodja and Andre Green but Vibe put the game beyond them with another cool finish inside the box.
The visitors agreed a £12million deal with Brentford to sign Hogan before kick-off but, while he was still undergoing a medical, the hosts showed no sign of missing him.
New signing from PSV Florian Josefzoon made his debut, while pre-deadline signing Sergi Canos watched from the stands.
Brentford went ahead after neat move on the right involving Jota, who found Yennaris on the edge of the box, and he played Vibe in to bag his fifth goal of the campaign.
Jota then supplied the cross for Yennaris to poke in a second.
And an impressive display from Jota, who returned from a loan at Eibar earlier this month, was almost capped with a goal when the beat three players on a mazy run across field and shot against the crossbar.
Villa’s Henri Lansbury missed from distance early in the second half and Vibe also should have done better with an effort off target from 18 yards.
But the Dane made no mistake after almost losing control of the ball on the breakaway, firing a third into the net on 65 minutes.
Jota had another chance late on with more trickery that opened up a shooting chance, but he missed the target.
Brentford: Bentley; Colin, Dean, Bjelland, Field; Woods, Yennaris (Kerschbaumer 76), McEachran (McCormack 81); Jota; Vibe, Josefzoon (Clarke 71)
Subs not used: Bonham, Hofmann, Sawyers, Barbet
This post was last modified on 31/01/2017
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Bruce isn't up to it, and Hogan do me a favour, we have missed out on Rhodes and we are likely to be sorry when he bags a net full against us, the perfect window, in your dreams we're nearer the relegation zone than the play offs, and I can't see it improving, just another load of money wasted, I say again Hogan over Rhodes is unbelievable, naive manager. Playing unfit players with Grealish and Bacuna on the bench.