Brentford and Wolverhampton Wanderers will play an FA Cup third-round replay at Molineux after drawing 1-1 at Gtech Community Stadium on Friday night.
Wolves' João Gomes was sent off inside the opening 10 minutes for a bad challenge on Christian Nørgaard, which allowed the Bees to dominate the ball and take the lead through Neal Maupay towards the end of the first half.
But the visitors kept themselves in the game and equalised in stunning fashion in the second half, when Tommy Doyle arrowed an effort from the edge of the area into the top corner.
Maupay gives Brentford the lead as Bees capitalise on Gomes dismissal
Thomas Frank made four changes to the side that lost 3-1 to Crystal Palace: Thomas Strakosha was selected between the posts with Mark Flekken given the night off; Josh Dasilva - making his first appearance since August - replaced Saman Ghoddos; Mikkel Damsgaard and Neal Maupay came in for Vitaly Janelt and Yoane Wissa respectively.
Wolves made three changes from their most recent league outing - a 3-0 win over Everton: Santiago Bueno and Matt Doherty came into the backline for Craig Dawson and Rayan Aït-Nouri. Jean-Ricner Bellegarde started in attack, with Hwang Hee-chan at the Asian Cup.
Wolves were almost gifted the opening goal of the game with less than 10 minutes on the clock, when a Strakosha pass was intercepted by Matheus Cunha. The Brazilian drove towards goal but was kept out by the Bees keeper, before Zanka cleared over his own crossbar.
Having nearly gone 1-0 up, the visitors were reduced to 10 men just moments later. Gomes raked his studs down the Achilles of Christian Nørgaard - who had to be taken off due to the injury suffered - and Tony Harrington showed no hesitation in sending the Wolves man off.
The red card allowed Brentford to keep possession in the attacking third, and a lovely move followed. Some clever play and trickery from Mathias Jensen and Dasilva saw the ball played into Maupay, who set Nathan Collins on the edge of the area with a perfectly weighted lay-off, but the centre-back's effort cleared the crossbar.
The Bees kept pushing, with Jensen and Dasilva at the heart of things again. This time, it was the latter to the former, as the returning midfielder stood up his man and found his team-mate in space, but the Dane shanked his effort wide.
Eventually, the pressure saw the hosts take the lead. A Jensen free-kick, which he won on the left wing, was whipped into the box and, after ricocheting off multiple players inside the penalty area, the ball fell to Maupay.
With the centre-forward just outside the six-yard box and with multiple defenders in front of him, he lashed an effort past Jose Sá and into the back of the net.
Doyle stunner forces replay
Despite being a man down, Wolves had the opening chance of the second period.
A quick Doherty throw-in saw him play a one-two and find the ball at his feet on the byline. A low cross into Sarabia created a good opening for the Spaniard, but he got his flick all wrong and a Brentford goal kick was the result.
Doyle then scored a stunning equaliser on the 65-minute mark. A corner was played short by Pedro Neto and fed out to the midfielder and, with Myles Peart-Harris closing him down on the edge of the area, a smart dummy saw him work some space to arrow an effort beyond Strakosha and into the top corner.
With the clock running down, Brentford tried to gain back control of the game - and they had two chances to win it before the 90 minutes were up.
First, Damsgaard's ball into Shandon Baptiste saw the midfielder shoot, before Peart-Harris diverted it wide. Then, a Yehor Yarmoliuk cross was headed at Sá, before Damsgaard fired the rebound wide.
Brentford: Strakosha, Collins, Zanka (Yarmoliuk 73), Pinnock, Roerslev (Peart-Harris 46), Nørgaard (Janelt 11), Jensen (Baptiste 73), Damsgaard, Lewis-Potter, Dasilva (Olakigbe 63), Maupay
Subs not used: Balcombe, Adedokun, Fredrick, Brierley
Wolves: Sá, Kilman, Bueno, Toti, Doherty, Doyle, Gomes, Semedo, Sarabia (Neto 54), Cunha, Bellegarde (Chirewa 90)
Subs not used: King, Keto-Diyawa, Mosquera, Hodge, Barnett, Griffiths, Kalajdžic
Attendance: 16,818
Frank: We can only blame ourselves
Brentford head coach Thomas Frank expressed his frustration following the Bees’ 1-1 draw with Wolves.
“We can only blame ourselves that we didn’t go through to the next round today,” he said.
“Clearly, we want a cup run. And clearly we wanted to win this game.
“When you play 11 against 10 for 80 minutes, you’ve got to win. End of discussion.
“We know it’s not that easy. Credit to Wolves, it’s the classic example of a team with momentum, and a team not with momentum. It’s down to quality today. Simple.
“Some nice moves but not efficient; we didn’t create enough chances.”
Dasilva: It was amazing to be back
Josh Dasilva has described how it felt to be back in the Bees squad, as he returned for the FA Cup clash on Friday night.
The midfielder hadn't played since the 3-0 win over Fulham on 19 August, but featured for 63 minutes for Thomas Frank's side on Friday night.
And Dasilva described the feeling of returning to the squad, as well as how the last few months have been on the treatment table.
He explained: “It was weird being in the [matchday] routine because I hadn't been in it for so long! But I felt relaxed and just focused on what I had to do when I'm on the pitch.
“Everyone knows how it's been for the last three years; going through that again was obviously not the best, but I just cracked on and it was amazing to be back out there.”