Another trip to London could have waited for Sunday's visitors Newcastle, whose display in their dismal 3-1 defeat to West Ham United last weekend left head coach Eddie Howe seething, but the boss got the response he was after in Europe.
Thanks to a pair of headers from Dan Burn and Joelinton - the former of whom scored one of the finest aerial efforts the Champions League will see this season - Newcastle comfortably got the better of an Athletic side ruing the absences of key attacking figures Nico Williams, Inaki Williams and Oihan Sancet.
Fresh from equalling their longest-ever winning streak in the Champions League - winning each of their last three in Europe's premier tournament - the 13th-placed Magpies strive for some belated consistency in the Premier League, where they are mathematically closer to the relegation zone than the top four.
An abysmal away record is mostly to blame for Newcastle's bottom-half ranking; the Magpies are just one of four Premier League sides without a victory on the road this season, and they have failed to win any of their last eight top-flight games on rival turf.
Howe's men were coincidentally bested 4-2 by Brentford in this exact fixture last season, but they have since overcome the Bees in back-to-back home games, earning a 3-1 success in the EFL Cup quarter-finals before April's 2-1 top-flight victory.
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Thanks to a pair of headers from Dan Burn and Joelinton - the former of whom scored one of the finest aerial efforts the Champions League will see this season - Newcastle comfortably got the better of an Athletic side ruing the absences of key attacking figures Nico Williams, Inaki Williams and Oihan Sancet.
Fresh from equalling their longest-ever winning streak in the Champions League - winning each of their last three in Europe's premier tournament - the 13th-placed Magpies strive for some belated consistency in the Premier League, where they are mathematically closer to the relegation zone than the top four.
An abysmal away record is mostly to blame for Newcastle's bottom-half ranking; the Magpies are just one of four Premier League sides without a victory on the road this season, and they have failed to win any of their last eight top-flight games on rival turf.
Howe's men were coincidentally bested 4-2 by Brentford in this exact fixture last season, but they have since overcome the Bees in back-to-back home games, earning a 3-1 success in the EFL Cup quarter-finals before April's 2-1 top-flight victory.
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