Highlights, report and reaction: Southampton 0 Brentford 5 | OneFootball

Brentford stormed to their first away win of the Premier League season with a 5-0 victory against Southampton at St Mary's Stadium.

Kevin Schade's early goal and Bryan Mbeumo's second-half brace were added to in stoppage-time by Keane Lewis-Potter and Yoane Wissa in a totally dominant performance from the Bees as they recorded their biggest-ever Premier League win.

Thomas Frank made two changes to the starting XI from the New Year's Day defeat to Arsenal with Mathias Jensen - who returned from injury against the Gunners as a substitute - and Schade replacing Vitaly Janelt and Yehor Yarmoliuk.

The Bees opened the scoring with just over five minutes played and, as he has been so often, Mikkel Damsgaard was the architect. He won a 50/50 with Paul Onuachu in the middle of the park and jinked past Lesley Ugochukwu before playing a superb pass to Schade in front of him. James Bree got a touch on the ball but it wasn’t enough to take it away from the German, who poked, first time, past Aaron Ramsdale and into the bottom corner.

Damsgaard intercepted a pass deep inside Saints' territory as Brentford looked for a quick second but, after passing inside to Wissa, the latter's shot was blocked.

The visitors should have made it 2-0 midway through the half. Mbeumo broke from halfway and shrugged off his man before squeezing the ball through the legs of Jan Bednarek to Wissa, who was denied by Ramsdale from eight yards.

A minute later, the west Londoners went close again. After Mbeumo was cynically brought down on the right wing, Christian Nørgaard headed Jensen's whipped free-kick against the crossbar.

The chances kept coming with Damsgaard showing great ball control to cut onto his left foot before dragging an effort just wide of the bottom corner.

Mark Flekken was brought into action for the first time seven minutes before the interval, as the Dutch keeper collected a tame Onuachu header.

Southampton finished the first period strongly and almost equalised just before half-time. Joe Aribo drove into the right side of the box and pulled the ball back to Tyler Dibling, who sent a left-footed shot into the side netting.

Home boss Ivan Jurić made two changes at the break but the Bees continued to look the more likely and, minutes after Mads Roerslev saw an effort saved, had a great chance to double their advantage. Damsgaard's low cross hit Taylor Harwood-Bellis and dropped to Wissa, whose shot was heading in at the near post before the Saints defender recovered to turn it over the bar.

From the resulting corner, Brentford had the ball in the back of the net. Mbeumo's in-swinging corner was met by Sepp van den Berg, who lost his marker and headed into the bottom corner from close to the penalty spot. The goal was disallowed following a VAR review, though, for a foul by Wissa in the area.

That gave the hosts some hope but the west Londoners had another golden opportunity to make it 2-0 on the hour mark. Jensen's long ball forward was flicked on by Schade to put Wissa in on goal. The Congolese striker raced forward but blazed over.

Two minutes later, Frank's side got the second goal their dominance deserved. Flekken's long kick upfield dropped to Mbeumo, with Schade's aerial presence again causing problems for the Saints' backline. He played the ball to Wissa, who cut inside before finding Mbeumo with a reverse pass, and the Cameroonian blasted into the roof of the net from a narrow angle.

Shortly afterwards, Van den Berg was dragged down at the back post by Ugochukwu in the penalty area and Mbeumo stepped up to whip the resulting penalty past Ramsdale.

The west Londoners kept pushing with the next big chance going the way of Lewis-Potter, who was played in behind by a deft Mbeumo flick from Wissa's pass, but he sidefooted narrowly wide from the middle of the box.

Dibling saw a low piledriver fly past the base of Flekken's left post shortly afterwards but a third clean sheet of the season never truly looked in doubt.

Yarmoliuk nearly added a fourth at the other end late on as he hammered into the side of Ramsdale's goal from a tight angle.

The Bees bagged two more goals in stoppage time. First, Paris Maghoma danced through three Saints players and found Mbeumo, who unselfishly played it left for Lewis-Potter to slot past Ramsdale.

Moments later, Wissa raced into the corner of the box and curled into the back of the net to become the club's joint-leading goalscorer in the Premier League - with 36 - alongside Ivan Toney.

Southampton: Ramsdale; Harwood-Bellis, Bednarek, Wood (Taylor 46); Bree (Sugawara 46), Ugochukwu, Aribo (Lallana 87), Walker-Peters; Dibling, Onuachu (Arstrong 55), Sulemana (Archer 55)

Subs not used: McCarthy, Bella-Kotchap, Manning, Brereton Díaz

Brentford: Flekken; Roerslev, Collins, Van den Berg, Lewis-Potter; Nørgaard (Yarmoliuk 81), Jensen (Janelt 71), Damsgaard; Mbeumo, Wissa, Schade (Maghoma 81)

Subs not used: Valdimarsson, Meghoma, Konak, Ji-soo, Yogane, Arthur

Attendance: 31,001

Frank: One of our best Premier League performances

Thomas Frank was proud of his side's attitude and performance in their 5-0 win at Southampton.

“Attitude, attitude, attitude; we spoke about that before the game, being confident but humble," said Frank.

“Being confident that we are a good team and they are good players, but humble enough to put in the intensity, dedication, work ethic; everything it takes to put a top performance out there.

“I’m extremely proud of the performance, it’s one of the best performances we’ve had in the four years in the Premier League.

“It was total control and domination from minute one to minute 90.

“We scored five very good goals and we could have scored more. The number of chances we had was insane."

Mbeumo: Brace and win means a lot

Bryan Mbeumo analysed his double in Brentford's 5-0 victory against Southampton at St Mary's Stadium.

“When you’re at a tight angle, you just try to smash it high," he reflected on his first goal.

“It’s hard for the keeper to react and I work a lot in training on that. It's the same for the penalty, I work a lot on that, too.

“I’m really happy to get the first away of the season, it means a lot.

“The fans have been waiting for this for a while and seeing them happy is a great thing."