28 mins United advanced over halfway as Dan Burn's pass was helped on by Harvey Barnes to Bruno Guimaraes, who sprayed it out to Jacob Murphy towards the right flank midway in the Brentford half.

He quickly pinged a cross into the area that Nick Woltemade got to ahead of Sepp van den Berg on the edge of the six yard box, adeptly flicking the ball with his foot into the path of Harvey Barnes.

Spinning around before side-stepping two opponents, he opened up space to hammer a shot through the legs of Bees goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher from eight yards. A rare moment of class. 1-0

Half time: Bees 0 Magpies 1

56 mins Michael Kayode's long-range throw-in from the right was arrowed towards the front corner of United's six yard box, where Nick Pope came with an attempt to punch clear. However, he was beaten by Sven Botman, whose header across goal fell nicely for Kevin Schade to nod over Dan Burn and into the net at the West End of the Gtech Stadium. 1-1

78 mins Igor Thiago evaded Sven Botman on the halfway line and his crossfield ball picked out the advancing Dango Outtara on the Brentford right, who got behind Burn in the box and went down under contact from him.

Arguably less of a viable penalty shout than the earlier one involving Burn, referee Attwell pointed to the spot without hesitation and waved yellow and red cards at the defender, who acknowledged the decision with a nod of the head before leaving the pitch without ceremony.

The penalty award was upheld by VAR and Aaron Ramsdale - who replaced concussion victim Nick Pope before the kick was taken - dived to his right as Thiago stepped up to place his low spot kick into the centre of the goal. 1-2

90+6 mins Mathias Jensen picked out the run of recently-arrived substitute Reiss Nelson down the left channel and although Malick Thiaw intervention took the ball away from him, he succeeded only in playing the ball behind Botman. His hesitation was exploited by Thiago, who swept into the box and confidently dispatched the ball beyond the advancing Ramsdale from around 12 yards. 1-3

Full time: Bees 3 Magpies 1

Eddie Howe said:

"There is no excuse for it. It is a disappointing performance and result, and we have to take that on the chin. We defended their throws and set-pieces well in the first half, and then it went from bad to worse with the penalty, and then we never really recovered.

"The analysis will take place and it is going to be a long international break. We need to find a solution to the away form and we need to stick together. We still feel the love and support of the supporters. This group has got the character to come back.

"My initial feeling after that game today is different to West Ham (another 1-3 defeat the previous Sunday). I thought the players were there, I thought they were present,

"I thought they gave everything to the game physically, but I think it was clear, if you watch Newcastle regularly, we were lacking in confidence today.

"There were a lot of technical mistakes, which is really unlike us, especially in the middle of the pitch where we're usually really fluent. And that contributed then to putting us under pressure.

"I think it's really important today that I support the players and we know we're good players. We know we've got a really good team, but we just need to stay grouped together in this difficult period.

"We knew the start of the season would potentially be slightly choppy for us as we entered into a transitional period with the team, but there are no excuses for us.

"We take full accountability for what we are delivering and only we can change it. We haven't done our jobs and we feel we have let everybody down. When you do that, when you make mistakes, it's not intentional from anyone.

"All you can do is hold your hands up and go: 'Right, let's try and fix it.' That's what we are going to try and do.

"I think we need to be very calm, but we need to be measured and we need to be reflective. If there is a reshuffle, it needs to be done in the right way.

"It needs to be done with analysis and then detailed thoughts as to how the team's going to go forward. I'm not adverse to that. We're never going to do the same thing continually.

"My message is that we know it's not good enough and I take full responsibility for that. And the work to putting that right starts now. That's all that I can do in this moment.”

On injuries:

"Nick Pope suffered concussion and that's why we took him off. As soon as we were made aware he was withdrawn.

"Joelinton looked like a knock but I have not had a full discussion with the medical team. Anthony Gordon is a minor injury so he will miss England. That's it."

On Nick Woltemade:

"I don't think it's just on Nick. I think he's had a great start to his career here. I think we haven't helped him be as effective as he can be, especially today.

"I thought it was a difficult game for him. Difficult in the respect that he's the only fit centre-forward we have. So, again, more pressure and more weight on his shoulders."

Keith Andrews said:

"It was thoroughly deserved, it was an outstanding performance. We maybe edged the first half without creating too many clear-cut opportunities - I would say we looked the more likely.

"Half-time, going a goal down, I just wanted us to remain calm and focus on what we talked about before the game.

"There were a couple of tweaks on how we could improve things... I thought we were outstanding in the second half, and our performance levels went through the roof.

On the penalty decisions:

"I've purposely not looked them back, to be honest, because I don't want it to be the main thing I've discussed today.

"All the challenges, all the bits and pieces, there's a lot going on in the games but clearly they were two key moments and decisions that needed to be made. I don't think it's been the main reason why the game has been decided. Some people might disagree with that.

"I think on the balance of play, we have to get more from it in my opinion, from 50, 60 yards away and from what the rest of the staff have discussed with me after the game. Yes, the officials have a difficult task on their hands, clearly.

"I think there's definitely a sense of certain things not going for us and I think sometimes you can use that as an excuse to not perform and let it get the better of you. I've been in that position obviously on the pitch, I don't think I always dealt with it particularly well on the pitch.

"I try and deal with that off the pitch. I think our players actually deal with it really, really well. They stuck at it, they stuck to the tasks. They were relentless really in terms of getting back level and then going for the winning goals.