Jon De Souza's Youth Team suffered their first home defeat of the season against lowly Crystal Palace this morning at Jersey Road.
After a quiet opening half-hour The Eagles took control of the game in two minutes just before half-time with Michael Phillips finishing off a slick passing move and then Jacob Berkeley headed home at the back post.
Brentford tried to rally in the second-half but, with Palace more than happy to play on the break, found it hard to get through the massed ranks of yellow shirts.
The visitors wrapped up only their second away win of the season with 15 minutes remaining as Berkeley grabbed his second despite a late Makhosini Khanye goal giving The Bees the faintest hope of making a comeback.
The Bees were able to welcome James Ferry back for his first start of the season in one of five changes from the draw with Bristol City last time out.
Both last year's encounters between Brentford and Palace ended in uninspiring draws and for much of the first-half it looked like this game would go the same way.
Palace were happy to sit off and defend in numbers leaving Brentford with possession of the ball in areas of the pitch that were no danger to The Eagles.
The sum total of the attacking efforts of the opening 30 minutes were a couple of Joshua Bohui shots, one of which was straight at Oliver Pain and the other off target, and a Corie Andrews shot that never looked like troubling Nik Tzanev in the home goal.
Palace had showed little attacking invention in the opening stages but with their first real attack of note they took the lead as nice interplay between Andrews and Phillips freed Phillips to finish calmly past Tzanev from the right-hand side of the penalty area.
Brentford hardly had time to react to the first goal before they found themselves two behind as Aaron Bissaka hung an inviting cross up to the back post and Berkeley arrived on time to plant his header home from eight yards.
Ferry could have pulled one back for Brentford on half-time but his shot, after a 60 yard break from midfield, was weak and straight at Pain.
If the first-half had been light on chances the opening stages of the second-half didn't show much promise of bucking that trend.
Aside from a Christian Scales long-range effort that flew over the bar and a pair of Mandela Egbo shots which were dealt with by the Brentford defence neither goal came under any sustained threat in the opening 20 minutes.
Audius Laucys shot over from the edge of the box before Palace looked to wrap up the three points with 15 minutes to go as Bissaka and Berkeley combined for the second-time as the Palace frontman clipped his shot over Tzanev and into the far corner.
Brentford did give themselves a flicker of hope 90 seconds later as Khanye pounced on a defensive mistake to calmly finish in off the post from 15 yards.
The flicker could have turned into a flame with time running out as Egbo somehow turned Tom Field's back post header behind from a corner when it looked certain to nestle in the bottom corner.
The Bees had one final chance as Kingsley Eshun slipped in Seika Jatta but Pain was out smartly to block Jatta's shot as Palace became the first side to leave West London with the three points this season.
: Nik Tzanev; Audrius Laucys, Gradi Milenge, Seth Owens, Tom Field; Zain Westbrooke, James Ferry (sub Jeremiah Kamanzi 46 mins), Reece Cole (sub Makhosini Khanye 66 mins), Kyjuon Marsh-Brown (sub Seika Jatta 60 mins); Kinglsey Eshun, Joshua Bohui
: Cameron Greaves, Chris Mepham
: Audrius Laucys 44
: Makhosini Khanye 75
Oliver Pain; Mandela Egbo, Matthew George (sub Jahmal Howlett 66 mins), Christian Scales, Jason Akiotu; Andre Coker (sub Elliott List 72 mins), Will Hoare, Michael Phillips, Aaron Bissaka; Corie Andrews (sub Hussein Mohammed 90 mins), Jacob Berkeley
: Brad Comins, Jaydon Thorborne
: Michael Phillips 38; Jacob Berkeley 41, 74