Brentford Under-18s cruised to a dominant 8-0 victory in the Professional Development League over Bristol City Under-18s at Wheatsheaf Park on Saturday morning in their first game of 2026.
Jovan Kasujja scored a first-half brace with Jacob Hanson also notching before the break. Hanson then scored a quick-fire second-half double to complete his hat-trick, before a Jai Bansoodeb brace and a late goal from Jai Nwosu completed the emphatic win.
The Bees started very strongly, breaking out of the Bristol City press and eventually finding Hanson, who played in Naeem Giscombe, but Hugo Dali-Kemmery parried his strike from a narrow angle within two minutes.
On 10 minutes, Hanson and Giscombe combined again on the right and the latter pulled the ball back to the penalty spot, where Bansoodeb curled an effort just over at the end of another brilliant team move.
The Robins could not handle the threat of Giscombe. On 17 minutes, he brought the ball down out of the air outrageously from Layton Nicholls' long kick, cruised past his full-back and placed an inch-perfect driven cross into Kasujja, who tapped home from two yards out to put Gary McDermott's side ahead.
The young Bees didn't rest on their laurels and had a second a minute later when Hanson was found by Kasujja on the edge of the box and finished expertly across the keeper and into the side netting to make it 2-0.
Hanson then fired an effort over on the half-hour mark after an excellent drive out of centre-back from Aidan Golding.
The west Londoners were rampant and had their third on 33 minutes when Hanson beat his man with a clever piece of skill, then lifted an excellent cross into the area, where Kasujja headed home to double his tally for the day and put the young Bees in cruise control.
On 37 minutes, Kasujja was brought down in the box and had a chance to secure a first-half hat-trick, but Dali-Kemmery saved his effort low to his right and subsequently denied Hanson on the rebound.
Two minutes later and McDermott's side carved through the Robins again. Otis Honor's cheeky backheel found Giscombe, who drilled the ball across the box and Golding's stretching leg made contact but turned the ball just wide.
Brentford picked up where they left off after half-time, with Hanson bagging his brace three minutes after the restart with a simple finish following an excellent run and cross from Domeiro Bobb-Semple.
It was a totally dominant display and Hanson completed his hat-trick in almost identical fashion three minutes later to make it 5-0, as Bobb-Semple once again gave the midfielder no chance of missing as he arrived in the box.
Bobb-Semple had a chance to get on the scoresheet when he drove at the Bristol defence and cut inside, but put his strike too close to the keeper.
The Robins were hit for six on 63 minutes when Bansoodeb got in on the action, smashing home after Kasujja's effort was parried into his path.
Brentford Under-16s player Jai Nwosu then made it seven with five minutes to play with a poacher's finish inside the box.
A minute later and the young Bees had eight, with Bansoodeb adding his second of the game to compile the misery on Bristol City.
It was eight goals without reply to start 2026 and a complete performance from McDermott's side, which was made even more impressive given the four-week break in games following last week's late postponement in Swansea.
The Under-18s are next in action at home to Charlton in the PDL on Saturday 31 January at Wheatsheaf Park (11.30am kick-off)
Brentford: Nicholls, Cohalan, Ogungbemi, Golding, Powis (Oladapo-Gamu 64), Honor, Giscombe (Madden 64), Hanson (Bowen 77), Kasujja, Bansoodeb, Bobb-Semple (Nwosu 64)
Unused subs: Lyon
Booked: Kasujja 36, Golding 82
Bristol City: Dali-Kemmery, Walker, Williams, Murphy, Sainsbury, Amos (Jackson 58), Akinbo (Wood 67), Hogg, Ikpeama, Abbott (Ababio 46), Kalkowski (Kumih Barimah 67)