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Fulham 1 – 1 West Brom – Match Report

Fulham took on West Bromwich Albion on Saturday in the early lunchtime kick-off and they shared the spoils on a warm day in South West London.

The two Championship high fliers played out an entertaining 1-1 draw at Craven Cottage but the hosts may feel they could have taken all three points but for some sloppy defending in the last half an hour.

Fulham enjoyed almost 70% possession and dominated the ball and carved out some decent opportunities but West Brom were also a threat going forward especially from around the 60 minute mark.

West Brom were unchanged from the win over Blackburn Rovers whilst Fulham made just the one alteration with Bobby Reid coming in for the suspended Harry Arter.

It was the hosts who started the game on the front foot with Scott Parker’s side having two excellent chances to open the scoring inside the opening 20 minutes.

First Tom Cairney produced a perfectly timed run to get in-behind the Albion defence and cut the ball back to Cavalier who shot past the post. Fulham continued to press with Harrison Reed’s brilliant through-ball sending Cairney galloping through on goal but he hit the crossbar from inside the penalty area.

With Cairney having too much space for Bilic’s liking, he asked Sawyers to stay closer to him. An excellent double stop from Sam Johnstone prevented Fulham taking the lead. First, the goalkeeper got down to parry a long-distance strike from Knockaert and he then pushed over a header from Reed.

Albion came out after the interval needing to assert some authority and work their way back into the game. But after just three minutes they were behind with Knockaert, somewhat fortuitously, curling in a cross-come-shot from 25-yards.

Bilic responded by making a double change with Kyle Edwards and Filip Krovinovic replacing Livermore and Phillips. They created their best chance of the game around 10 minutes later. Edwards found Diangana who quickly moved the ball on to Furlong but he lashed a shot into the side netting.

Hal Robson-Kanu then replaced Diangana and the substitutions were beginning to make a difference. With 10 minutes left of the game, Albion were level. Bettinelli made a mistake from a corner and flapped at the ball following Pereira’s delivery with Ajayi on hand to nod in from close range.

Both sides had chances to win the game but a draw was probably a fair result although Fulham may feel they should have taken all three due to their dominance for around an hour of the game.

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