Wissa ends Brentford's long wait after Eze controversy

The new season may be upon us but there had been a sense of deja vu in west London until Yoane Wissa's late winner sealed victory for Brentford against Crystal Palace for the first time in almost 50 years.

The past three editions of this fixture had all finished in a 1-1 draw and this match yesterday had seemed destined to follow suit, after Ethan Pinnock's own goal had cancelled out Bryan Mbeumo's opener in the first half and Eberechi Eze's free-kick at 0-0 was bizarrely ruled out.

However, on an afternoon when Thomas Frank had taken the bold decision of leaving Ivan Toney out of his match-day squad as the England striker attempts to engineer a move away, it was Wissa - the club's top scorer last season who proved to be the match winner when he forced the ball home from close range 14 minutes from time.

Not since a League Cup tie in 1977 had Brentford beaten their London rivals, while you had to go back even further to 7 September 1963 - for their last league win against Palace in the old Division Three.

Yet after a summer during which he has already lost Michael Olise to Bayern Munich as doubts grow over the future of Marc Guéhi, this under-par performance was perhaps a sign that things will not be so easy for Oliver Glasner after his spectacular start to life in south London last season.