Brentford striker Neal Maupay (left) netted his 22nd league goal of the season
Brentford made light work of Ipswich Town as they nudged the Championship's bottom club to the brink of relegation.
Neal Maupay and Ollie Watkins scored within the space of eight first-half minutes as the Bees ended a run of five matches without a win.
Collin Quaner should have put Ipswich ahead moments before Maupay's opener but hit the base of the post as he tried to dink the ball past Luke Daniels.
Ipswich will be relegated on Saturday if they fail to beat Birmingham City at home.
Paul Lambert has still only won three out of his 25 league matches since taking charge of Ipswich in November. The Suffolk club now look certain to drop into English football's third tier for the first time since 1957.
At one stage in the evening's other games, scores elsewhere meant Town were just a goal away from being relegated a year to the day that Mick McCarthy resigned after a home win against Barnsley.
Despite the club's inevitable plight, more than 1,600 fans made the trip to west London but, as has been the case for most of the season, they had little to cheer about.
Brentford should have won by more but were wasteful at times in the final third.
Their early goals came when Maupay profited from Said Benrahma's neat pass to fire in his 22nd league goal of the season - his 25th overall.
Romaine Sawyers then pounced on a slip in midfield by Flynn Downes that allowed Benrahma to slide the ball across the face of goal and give Watkins plenty of time to pick his spot.
Former Brentford man Alan Judge had Ipswich's best chances of the second half on his first return to Griffin Park when he forced Daniels to tip over a curling ball into the danger area and skewed a shot wide from the edge of the penalty area.
Brentford head coach Thomas Frank told BBC Sport:
"We started well. We tried to move the ball quickly with one or two touches and there was lots of energy and intensity put into the game.
"I liked that we tried to play in behind them more so than we do usually, but that helped create more gaps in between. Throughout we found space and created opportunities and took two very good goals.
"We could have maybe scored one more. I know they hit the post and a goal for them could have changed the momentum but, in the end, we did more than well enough to deserve our lead.
"Second half, we were professional. I'm pleased we didn't give anything away with a high line and that made it into a scrap for them."
Ipswich Town manager Paul Lambert told BBC Sport:
"Flynn Downes made a mistake for their second goal, but the positive thing for me is he kept wanting to take the ball forward after that. It's not his first mistake and it won't be his last.
"But we never deserved to take anything from the game. The big turning point was Collin Quaner hitting the post when everyone thought it might go in.
"That might have changed the course of the game, but we were up against a good side.
"That's probably the worst 45 minutes I've seen since I've been here. But performances like this aren't why we are where we are. It goes back a lot further than that - right to last summer."
