It was an afternoon that started with calamity but ended pretty much perfectly for Brentford as they claimed a hugely significant win towards their promotion push.
Their goalkeeper David Raya, with his second such error in seven days, gifted Stoke’s Jacob Brown an opener just 27 seconds in and, truth be told, the Bees looked a pale imitation of their best in the first-half.
But they were a completely different proposition after the break and once Vitaly Janelt scored an inspired equaliser from 25 yards there was only one winner.
As so often this season, it was Ivan Toney who came up with the crucial intervention.