Barnsley were bottom of the Championship with two matches left last season before injury-time winners against Nottingham Forest and Brentford pulled off arguably the greatest escape ever seen in English football.
It was a spectacular achievement but, if anything, the encore has been even more impressive, particularly with new manager Valerien Ismael replacing Gerhard Struber, who departed for Major League Soccer.
Ismael has overseen a frantic, high-octane brand of football that would make Jurgen Klopp and Marcelo Bielsa blush and taken the homely South Yorkshire club to just three games from the Premier League.