Brentford bossed the derby show and deservedly took all three points from a flaccid QPR.
Manager Dean Smith was ecstatic - too many more performances like these from Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and the Rs boss will be looking over his shoulder.
But in the last 10 minutes the gloss was taken off a great win when unlucky Lewis MacLeod was stretchered off.
It didn't look good for a player who missed all of last season bar seven minutes as he battled injury.
It didn't look good for QPR either.
The best Hoops could muster was a header from Idrissa Sylla back across keeper Daniel Bentley in the second half - that saw another ex-Southend player John Egan heading off the line.
But for the most part, Rs were the bit players rather than the stars of their own show.
Brentford controlled things from the off.
In fact when the first goal came it was long overdue.
Three minutes before the break, Josh Clarke played a slick one-two with Romaine Sawyers before making wrong-footing Onuoha and sliding the ball under Alex Smithies from five yards.
Rangers were reduced to a couple of half chances - the best falling to Conor Washington who went for place rather than power 12 yards out and caught a Brentford block.
But Bees should have been ahead Josh when McEachran chipped sublimely but in much the way Washington picked his corner, Sawyers tried the same and found Smithies equal to it with a terrific save.
Scott Hogan had space, time and too much of both when through on the right. He tried to curl his shot past the outstretched arm of the busy keeper but it drifted wide.
Nedum Onuoha's sliding clearance also saved the day, temporarily, as he took it off Hogan's toe.
In the second half, Rangers rang the changes but even the arrival of Sebastian Polter failed to add much cut to any Rangers thrust.
The second Brentford goal was sublime.
Rs lost the ball on the right for Maxime Colin to thread the ball across the box to the unmarked Sawyers who hit it first time to rifle high and wide of Smithies despairing right hand.
The only frown for the Griffin Park men must be how bad is MacLeod?
