Into the play-off final

Brentford 3 – 1 Swansea

Brentford

Home team scorersOllie Watkins 11Emiliano Marcondes 15Bryan Mbeumo 46

Swansea

Away team scorersRhian Brewster 78

Aggregate 3-2 Brentford win 3-2 on aggregate

Championship

Brentford fight off Swansea to reach play-off final in Griffin Park swansong

Jonathan Liew at Griffin Park

Wed 29 Jul 2020 22.35 BSTFirst published on Wed 29 Jul 2020 22.11 BST

Bryan Mbeumo celebrates scoring Brentford’s third goal with teammate Rico Henry.
 Bryan Mbeumo celebrates scoring Brentford’s third goal against Swansea with Rico Henry. Photograph: Ben Evans/Huw Evans/Shutterstock

A night for moving on. For shedding baggage, and laying the past to rest. On the night Brentford said their farewells to Griffin Park, they came closer to top-flight football than they have done at any point since 1947. They did so with a sparkling modern brand of football quite at odds with the weathered girders and sardine seats of their old home.