As first games go, this was about as good as it was going to get for Frank Lampard.
Was it perfection? No. Is there still plenty of things to work on? Absolutely.
But for Lampard it was a winning start, and when your new side hasn’t managed too many of them in recent months, they are not to be sniffed at.
A bright opening was rewarded when Yerry Mina headed Everton ahead before the interval, after the Colombian came on for Ben Godfrey with less than 15 minutes on the clock.
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Richarlison then looked to be setting Everton on their way for a comfortable afternoon when he added a second in the opening 10 minutes of the second half.
But this is Everton. And as everyone knows, they never do things the easy way.
Brentford were allowed a route back into the game when Jordan Pickford brought down Ivan Toney inside the box.
The forward picked himself up to convert from 12 yards and suddenly it was game on at Goodison Park.
But thanks to Mason Holgate’s header just minutes later, and a late Andros Townsend strike, the Blues secured their passage into the fifth round of the FA Cup.
Everton have made a habit of setting trends this season, but sadly for Blues all over the world, they have been the sort of trends no-one wants to set.
But here Lampard’s team bucked a trend, doing something no Everton side has done since October.
As it was not since October that the Blues had scored the opening goal in a match, which still couldn't stop Rafa Benitez's team from slipping to a humiliating 5-2 home defeat.
And you have to go even further back for the last time they scored the opening goal of a game they would go on to win - the 2-0 victory over Norwich City at Goodison in September.
There are many reasons behind Everton’s struggles this season, but not scoring first in matches never helps.
Too many times this season the Blues have found themselves chasing games in a desperate effort to pick up a point let alone all three.
But for the sake of Lampard, and all of Everton’s supporters, the win over Brentford will hopefully be the start of a new trend of their side scoring first.
The Blues will of course need to do more than that if they are to turn their fortunes around.
But there is no doubt scoring first in games will give them a better chance of getting something from them as they aim to climb the table and get themselves to Wembley in May.
Hopefully, this is the start of a new Everton trend that their supporters will, for all the right reasons, want to talk about.
