Although delighted with the attacking threat his side now poses, Dean Smith has ordered his Brentford troops to tighten up at the back.

In five league fixtures in February, the Bees have struck 13 goals at an average of more than two-and-a-half a game.

However, they have conceded exactly the same amount at the other end, and have thrown away winning positions against Brighton, Reading and Preston as a result.

Smith said: “We're scoring a lot of goals. We like entertaining football here – we're not a team who will try not to lose, we will try to win. I think we will score in any game, and we always look a threat going forward when we move the ball quickly.

“I just wish we didn't have the five minute spells where we let them in. We're conceding too many goals, and that's something we have to address. But we had a partnership today (Egan and Bjelland) which we've not had since Barnsley at home, so it needs time to work.

“In the first half, I though our rest defending was very good, and by that I mean whenever there was a loose ball, Woodsy picked it up, or one of our centre halves picked it up. We were very good at that, not so good in the second half.”

Jota's late heroics saved the day for the Bees, before which it looked like for all their possession and dominance, it would be chalked up as another frustrating day for the hosts.

Smith added: “I spoke to the players about this – in the last few games, the expectations have not been as high, but because of Rotherham's league position, people were expecting us to win by three or four goals. But it doesn't work like that, you've got to have the work ethic and move the ball quickly, and we didn't move the ball quickly enough.

“It was certainly a tale of two halves, as first half we were in total control but didn't work the keeper as much as we should have done for all our possession. I said to the players at half time that at 1-0 it was not game over, whoever you're playing against, and so it proved.

“The first 15 minutes of the second half had an Eastleigh feel to it, plenty of possession but little in the way of penetration. Ward forced Dan Bentley into a save which gave them a lift, a bit of a confidence boost, and we got a bit sloppy from there and lost our discipline a bit.”