Bees sting Swansea to seal Wembley spot
Brentford survived a nervy finish and beat Swansea City 3-1 in the final match at Griffin Park to reach the EFL Championship play-off final 3-2 on aggregate.
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The Bees, who last played in the top flight in 1947, missed out on automatic promotion on the last day of the season and then lost the semi-final first leg 1-0 in Wales.
But a superb start on Thursday (AEST) set Brentford on its way to a deserved victory.
Ollie Watkins raced onto Mathias Jensen's defence-splitting pass after 11 minutes and finished calmly as Swansea was punished on the counter-attack.
The hosts then led for the first time in the tie just four minutes later as Emiliano Marcondes headed in unmarked when found by Said Benrahma, who soon struck the post.
Swansea's hopes of a swift second-half recovery were dashed when Bryan Mbeumo added a superb third 54 seconds after the interval.
A dismal Pontus Jansson error teed up Rhian Brewster for a lob that brought the visitors back into the match with 12 minutes to go, but Brentford battled bravely to book a Wembley date against either Fulham or Cardiff City.
