Fulham delivered a fantastic performance to defeat high-flying Newcastle United 3-1 at Craven Cottage on Saturday afternoon. The Magpies would have gone top of the Premier League with a victory, but were blown away by the Whites in the first half, with Raul Jimenez and Emile Smith Rowe handing Fulham control of the game. Within half a minute of the restart, Harvey Barnes had reduced the deficit, leading to a real battle in the second half. In stoppage time, Reiss Nelson scored Fulham’s third goal to secure the win.
Fulham boss Marco Silva said “It was a great goal from him [Jimenez]. It shows that when he’s confident like now he’s capable to do these situations. The turn, the rotation from him was top level and it was great. He also had a very good moment which was over the bar, it was tough for him to face big players like Dan Burn but he was fighting and helped the team. It was a good performance from him and it’s important for a striker to be scoring the goals. It was a deserved three points, great work from the lads and it was a great reaction from ourselves. We wanted to show a reaction because we were not fortunate last week and what a reaction it was from ourselves. The first half was very good with the way we started and were dominant.”
