Ivan Toney’s stunning hattrick was the catalyst for Brentford’s 5-2 victory over Leeds United on a record-breaking afternoon at the Gtech Community Stadium.

It was the first time the Bees had scored five in a Premier League game and the first time the Club had hit that mark in the top flight since April 1938.

Ivan’s first, from the penalty spot after he was fouled, was his 50th for the Club, making him the fifth-fastest player in history to that mark.

After adding two more, both excellent finishes from range, it was left to Bryan Mbeumo and birthday boy Yoane Wissa to complete the home side’s scoring.

Thomas Frank was able to welcome skipper Pontus Jansson back following his foot injury while Kristoffer Ajer made the matchday squad for the first time this campaign. For Leeds, Cody Drameh came in at full-back while Joe Gelhardt replaced the injured Rodrigo up front.

Brentford started on the front foot, the high press forcing Leeds into a number of errors in possession in the opening moments. From one of those, Robin Koch presented the ball straight to Mathias Jensen, the midfielder looked up, saw Meslier off his line and curled an effort from the angle of the box inches wide of the far post.

Keane Lewis-Potter, on his full home debut, had the next sight of goal. Having plucked a long-ball out of the air with a cushioned first touch, he cut inside his man and shot. The covering Pascal Struijk threw himself in the way of the effort and took enough of the sting out of the shot to allow Meslier to make the most routine of saves.

The Bees were dealing well with Leeds’ high press, Shandon Baptiste in particular very tidy in possession while Rico Henry and Lewis-Potter linked up well down the left. The away side’s opportunities in the opening quarter were restricted to a Jack Harrison effort from inside his own-half, which threatened the corner flag more than Raya’s goal, and Gelhardt’s deflected shot.

Ben Mee was also required to make a perfectly timed challenge on Brenden Aaronson as he threatened to break into the box following a weaving run through the middle.

Despite those scares, the majority of the action was taking place towards the end that Brentford were attacking. From a Baptiste-led break, Mbeumo crossed for Lewis-Potter but the ball wouldn’t sit for him and Koch was able to get across and make the block.

The ball rebounded out for a throw-in which Jensen delivered into the box. The ball bounced up and appeared to hit Marc Roca’s arm. Robert Jones wasn’t interested and nor was he interested as Toney and Luis Sinisterra collided going for the loose ball. Toney was convinced there was a foul and was, eventually, proved right as Mr Jones consulted VAR before awarding a spotkick. Ivan stepped up and duly dispatched it into the right-hand corner.

Leeds threatened through a pair of Gelhardt shots, the first from long-range was easy for Raya and the second drifted off target from the edge of the box, before Toney took centre stage again.

Baptiste was fouled in line with the left-edge of the D, 25 yards from goal. Toney stepped up and rifled the free-kick towards goal giving Meslier the best view in the house to watch it fly past him and into the top-right corner.

That goal came with four minutes to go until the break, but the home side couldn’t take a two-goal advantage into half-time as Sinisterra atoned for his earlier error with a fine solo effort. The forward flicked the ball over Henry in midfield and then shot low across David Raya and in from 25 yards to change the complexion of the respective team talks.

Leeds introduced Patrick Bamford at the break and last season’s top scorer had a golden chance to level just four minutes after he had been brought on. Meslier took a quick goalkick after Lewis-Potter’s cross-cum-shot had skipped just past his left-hand post and set Bamford on his way. The striker got goal side of Ben Mee and drove in from the right-hand touchline. With only Raya to beat, he opened his body and tried to find the far corner but sliced his effort well off target.

Roca fired over from the edge of the box and Lewis-Potter was denied by Meslier before Ivan completed his second Premier League hattrick in composed style.

Lewis-Potter was alert as two Leeds defenders missed Jensen’s through ball, forcing Meslier out of his area to clear. His contact was poor and the ball ended up at Toney’s feet just inside the Leeds half. Toney thought about going for goal but instead dribbled round two, including the stricken goalkeeper, drove to the edge of the D where, with two men between him and the goal, he showed incredible composure to dink it over both of them and into the back of the net.

Away Head Coach Jesse Marsch had cut an increasingly irritated figure as the game wore on and eventually his frustrations got the better of him. When a penalty appeal was turned down, he barged into the Assistant Referee while pointing towards the VAR monitor. Accidental or not, Fourth Official Keith Stroud brought it to Mr Jones’ attention who showed him the red card.

Toney nearly put the game firmly to bed with another free-kick, this one kissed the top of the bar and went behind. Brentford’s momentum was then halted as Mee and Luke Ayling clashed heads leading to a long stoppage. When the game resumed with 15 minutes of normal time remaining, Leeds got themselves right back into it.

In truth, they should have scored earlier than they did. In trying to turn home a cross, Bamford got his feet mixed up and failed to convert from six yards. The clearance was headed back into the box and to the feet of an unmarked Roca but Raya denied him from eight yards.

There was nothing Raya could do when the two Spaniards next faced each other, Roca sweeping Ayling’s low cross past David and in with 11 minutes to play.

If there were any Brentford nerves, the next passage of play didn’t do much to calm them initially. From the kick-off, the ball was played up to Toney. He appeared to flick it on to an offside Mbeumo who finished coolly past Meslier. To no real surprise in the ground the flag went up for offside. However, replays seemed to suggest that the touch hadn’t been off Toney but rather the Leeds captain, Koch. After a second, long VAR check of the day, the decision again went in our favour, restoring our two-goal lead.

This time there wasn’t to be a way back into it for Leeds as, two minutes into added-time, Wissa robbed Llorente on the edge of the box and Meslier was beaten for the fifth-time on the afternoon by a close-range effort across him.

In contrast to the first 95, the final six minutes passed without incident as Thomas Frank’s side made it two wins in three on home soil this campaign.

Brentford: Raya; Hickey, Jansson (c), Mee, Henry; Janelt (Zanka 67), Baptiste (Onyeka 59), Jensen (Damsgaard 83); Mbeumo (Wissa 83), Lewis-Potter (Dasilva 59), Toney

Subs not used: Strakosha, Ghoddos, Ajer, Roerslev

Leeds United: Meslier; Drameh (Ayling 70), Llorente, Koch (c), Struijk; Adams, Roca (Greenwood 86); Sinisterra (Summerville 59), Aaronson, Harrison (Bamford 46); Gelhardt (Klich 59)

Subs not used: Klaesson, Forshaw, Cooper, Hjelde, Greenwood

Attendance: 16,946