Everton dealt an enormous blow to Fulham’s European hopes as they scored twice in three second-half minutes to earn a comeback victory at Craven Cottage.
Fulham let one other lead slip after Raul Jimenez headed them in entrance throughout the first half and have now dropped 28 factors from successful positions this season.
Vitali Mykolenko levelled for the guests with a deflected shot in first-half added time as Fulham didn’t capitalise on their dominance throughout the opening half-hour.
Jordan Pickford made an excellent, fingertip save to disclaim Fulham’s Harry Wilson halfway via the second interval earlier than the sport turned in a frantic three-minute spell.
Dwight McNeil’s deep nook was headed in by Michael Keane with the aim surviving a VAR verify for a foul on Bernd Leno and offside.
Leno was on the centre of the third too, letting Beto’s positioned shot via his palms and into the underside proper nook to depart Fulham’s European hopes hanging by a thread.
Fulham have now misplaced 5 of their final eight league video games which leaves them 4 factors behind eighth-placed Brentford.
Silva: We’ve got accountable ourselves
Fulham boss Marco Silva stated:
“We were the best team on the pitch. The first 30, 35 minutes was the level we want. Last 10 minutes, we started to lose some of the main things we had to be in control of the game.
“It’s the story of the final three or 4 video games. Targets have come from set-pieces. We’ve got to be keen to battle, do our job nicely and we did not. It is about focus and focus.
“We have to blame ourselves because it didn’t happen before, but it did in the last few weeks.”
Raul Jimenez celebrates scoring for Fulham
On dropping 28 factors from successful positions: “At the same time, we got almost 20 points from being behind as well. I always prefer to be leading a game, starting the game stronger and trying to win football matches from that moment.”
On European qualification: “We have to do our job. If we don’t do what we should, it doesn’t matter what the other clubs are going to do.
“It is rather more troublesome proper now and we’ve got to analyse why the final six, seven video games haven’t been on the stage that we needs to be at with a majority of these moments, late objectives or set-piece objectives.
“I really believe that the way we have been playing most of the time throughout the season deserves a better end and we have to work for it.”
Moyes: Keane confirmed his professionalism
Everton boss David Moyes stated:
“We were incredibly poor in the first 30 minutes. It looked as if we couldn’t control or pass it, and we never really got to grips with it. I was pleased that it was only 1-0 and we were looking as if we were going to go into half-time 1-0 down.
“However nothing had broke for us within the sport both. Deflections had been entering into Fulham’s favour. The one which actually counted was Miko’s (Vitaliy Mykolenko) strike will get a little bit of a deflection and goes in. That gave us a little bit of hope and one thing at half-time.”
On Michael Keane: “He is in all probability had some troublesome occasions however I’ve acquired to say he performed so nicely at this time. He was immense for us in that line. Acquired the aim from the nook as nicely. So good on him.
“He’s a great boy, great pro. Sticks at his work. Showed his high level of professionalism by being ready for the game, because we had an injury to Jake (O’Brien) and obviously with Tarky (James Tarkowski). So it meant that we were sort of looking a bit differently at the back.”
