Brentford hero Mark Phillips said he felt his first goal for the club was coming before he notched the match-saver against Notts County.
The former Millwall central defender scored his first Bees goal in the 90th minute against the East Midlands club when he beat County goalkeeper Kevin Pilkington to a long Glenn Poole cross and saw his header loop in.
The goal salvaged a point for a Brentford team which had been down to ten men for more than 80 minutes after the early sending off of Nathan Elder.
Phillips said he didn't see the incident which led to the red card - described by his manager Andy Scott as "very, very harsh" - but captain Kevin O'Connor was a little closer.
O'Connor said: "I thought Nathan has used his arms to jump, he has caught their guy but it wasn't intentional, and the referee has decided to send him off."
Phillips told the match day programme he was "dying" to get his first Brentford goal and said afterwards he knew it was close.
"I felt I could get some goals," he said. "I had one disallowed last week [at Lincoln], which I thought was a bit unfair.
"I was working on trying to get in front of my man, the ball was perfectly delivered and I heard the keeper coming.
"I knew he was coming so I tried to get a head to it and not get a punch, thankfully I got my head to it, it went in and I didn't get a punch.
"I want to help the team by getting goals and we need goals from all round the pitch if we are to get promoted.
"As soon as we went down to ten men I said to the rest of the back four that it was down to us and we need to stay solid.
"There were a couple of nervy moments but you are always going to get that with ten men.
"Second half I felt we were the better team - maybe we didn't deserve a win but we deserve a point.
"We are on an unbeaten run, we are a confident team and even if we go behind we feel we have enough to win the game.
"We are one of the strongest teams in the league and we keep going right to the end."
Captain O'Connor said he saw it as a point gained given the early sending off of Elder.
"We came out in the second half and gave them a good run for their money," he continued.
"They passed the ball quite well, especially in the first half, but we got in 1-0 down, reorganised and were better second half.
"The manager [Andy Scott] said we would get half chances.
"Glenn Poole put in a great ball, their keeper has come for some reason and as soon as Mark Phillips got his head to it we knew it was in.
"There was a sense it was coming, we were getting corners and free kicks and we knew a chance would come and it was whether we could take it."
