(Premier League 2023/2024): Highlights Fulham - Everton

Robinson will do, I think. Fulham have possession, right-hand side. Bobby de Cordova-Reed, Castagna on the overlap. Good ball in. Oh, an important header from Godfrey before Willian got there. And then Anthony Robinson curled it towards goal with his right foot. Jordan Pickford pushes it behind for Fulham's second corner of the game. I'm not sure he didn't take a deflection off the defender on the way through. Yeah, just as soon as he's hit it, more or less, Jamie. I think, isn't it, there's a raised boot from maybe Ashley Young. I think it was. Good save. Yeah, always behind it. Pushes it away for a corner. Blocked the ball with his hand. Free kick to Fulham. Kearney leaves it. Pereira swings it in. Oh, it's headed just over. I think it was Jaipalinha who got in front of Tosin and got his head to that. They were both attacking it. And from six yards or so out, a decent half chance. Yeah, he couldn't quite get over the top of it. He got in front of Tarkovsky as well. It was a good header. Jim managed to just hold him off. Got in between those two central defenders. He is strong in the air, isn't he, Perlina? Yeah, he did well. Just ducking down into the ball and not far over of the goal. Fulham with a three-man wall. Does it favour Harrison with the left foot? You would think so, Jamie. Looking at this, yeah. Hopefully, he's not going to get caught at the near post here. But yeah, if you think Harrison would go round that wall with his left foot, although he's going to leave it. Ashley Young goes with his right. Berlino pushes it away. Well, has it gone in? The referee hasn't given anything as yet. It hasn't gone in. Castagne saved it on the line, Jim. Yeah, it spun up, came back down. I mean, Berlino made an incredible save with his foot. We'll have to see it again. And I think the ball went up and struck the bar, came down on the line. Castagne got it away. I have to say, looking at it from up here, my first reaction was it was probably a goal. But the referee didn't get told anything. And he's just got his toe to it, Timothy Castagne. He's right in the back of the goal and he's managed at full stretch. Berlino pushed the ball out into a dangerous area. It's a complete miskick from Tarkovsky. Came off the head of Issa Diop, I think. Hit the crossbar and he's kept it out. I mean, they're all booing the Everton fans, but they've got to watch or tell them, Jamie, if it hasn't crossed the line. Sean Dyche is complaining about it now as well. I mean, I must admit from up here, it looked like a goal, didn't it? Here's Dwight McNeil. Diop got an important foot on that, but it falls for Dan Juma. Breaking into the box, cuts back onto his right foot and thankfully made a hash of it for Dutchman. It just might have bobbled a little bit, given the benefit of the doubt. But once he cut back inside, really should be doing better with a shot, Jamie. I thought once he'd turned inside onto his right foot, surely he should be hitting the target there. Well, I think he should be scoring, Jim. Yeah, a player of his quality. You could see what he wanted to do. He just got around Pollinia. Sure, I've heard that before somewhere, but Willian takes the short corner to Tom Cairney, to Andreas Pereira. Back for Cairney, onto the left foot, back for Pereira once more. Goes for goal with the right foot. Well, he struck it sweetly. It was always rising, unfortunately, from 25 yards or so, just under maybe. Sweet strike, Jamie, but unfortunately, it was always rising on it. And I think Pickford was fairly confident that was going to go over his crossbar. He still had to make a move towards it, just in case. But it's there for everyone to see. I like that. I think it's good. And it's instant, Jim, isn't it? Unlike VAR. Yeah, it was very, very close. But no cigar, as Anthony Robertson floats it into the box. Oh, Bobby Deckard overread into the path of Castagne. The shot, oh, on the way in, it's blocked. Jimenez has put it wide from the follow-up. I thought, really, he should be making that 1-0 to Fulham. It was panic stations at the back. It was their turn this time. As Bobby Deckard overread, got the touch to Anthony Robertson's cross. It fell nicely into the path of Timothy Castagne. Struck it well, a boot came out. An Everton player, Tarkovsky, then blocked it. The keeper would have been able to do nothing about it. Tarkovsky with the block. And then Jimenez again has gone to spin it with the outside of his boot, Jamie. I don't know why sometimes players don't just... I mean, he had defenders between him and the goal, I know, but... Everybody else inside the Fulham half of the field as he floats it. Up the right-hand side of the penalty area. Tarkovsky with a header down. Ben Godfrey with a shot. It's Nick Godfrey, Fulham player, I think, gone out for a corner. Clever, wasn't it, from the goalkeeper, Jim, the way he worked the space. And you could see Godfrey's effort was deflected. I think he felt it might have been creeping in. Yeah. Might well have been, actually. Certainly on target, I think. Yeah, until it took the... The deflection goes out. A third of their goals have come from corners, Jamie, this season. They're Premier League goals. And that was a good opportunity there for Calvert-Lewin. We've barely seen him, really, this evening. But he got up and he got a free header at the far post. Just skimmed over the crossbar. Tell you what, I'd like to see if that ball was in the quadrant or touching the D. Yeah, they all try it on, don't they? He did well in the end. It's a free header and it's just skimmed the top of the crossbar, Jamie. Too close for comfort, that, really. And the cross, Jamie, when it came off the Everton defender, the initial... The one off Godfrey, yeah. Bouncing header, yeah. Here we go, Jim. Could have gone anywhere. Great work from Bobby Deckard over Reid to win it back for Fulham. Carries it into the box, slides it across. Oh, William was waiting to tap that into an empty net. And that's a terrific bit of defending from Ben Godfrey. I have to say, just back in the side following injury, he's done incredibly well there because it's a great block tackle from Bobby. He's got plenty of room to run into. He slides it across, trying to pick out William. Well, I tell you what, it wasn't the impact in making it, getting it out of play. Look at the yards he covered to get back in. Yeah, it's incredible. It's not even in the frame, Jim. I don't think Bobby can even see him, to be fair. He's thinking, I've just got to slide this across. William's waiting there for it. Good defending as William swings the corner in. Well, Branthwaite hooks it up in the air. Seven yards from goal. And then Pellinia on the volley with the left foot. Again, just over the top. Didn't quite get his head over the ball, but dangerous. The corner from William. Branthwaite not the best at defending. He just hooked it up in the air. And then the second header away fell nicely. Pellinia, he just couldn't keep it down. Not quite as disappointing as the volley early on against Liverpool. But Branthwaite misjudged it. Muniz heads it for Pereira. Bobby de Cordova reads to his right. Muniz to his left. He finds him. The right-footed shot is blocked. Good defending, you'd have to say, by Mikalenko. It's going to be another corner of Fulham. Seven second-half corners in just under 20 minutes. Well, Branthwaite caught out of position, wasn't he? After being caught out there. That deflection has just given them what they wanted, Jim. But we do need to take advantage. Wouldn't it be nice to do them on a set play? The set play kings. Yeah, it would be ironic. Well, he certainly had plenty. It's our 10th corner of the game as Pereira swings it out again. Bobby de Cordova read with a header. And Castagne is off the bar. Schalpelinia got a touch, but it was coming away from goal. Clever work from Timothy Castagne there. And a well-placed header. Pickford was nowhere near it. And it's off the crossbar and Fulham are unlucky. Which could very easily be a goal in front. And it would be Timothy Castagne's first ever Fulham goal. Unfortunately, it was the crossbar that beat him. Pereira with the corner. Bobby de Cordova read with the first header. And he spun his body just inside the six-yard box. Castagne, really clever head of that, Jamie. And deserved a goal. It did deserve a goal. You could see on his face, Jim, that he knew it was so, so close. Because he had to really stretch those neck muscles to hook it towards goal. So unlucky. Well, checks back and squares it for Willian. Right-hand side of the penalty area. Walking it into the box. They got everyone behind the ball, Everton. Twisting and turning. Floats it across. Headed in. Oh, it's a great save. It was tossing. I thought that was his second goal of the season, to be honest. And he's gone flying through the air. Jordan Pickford to make a great save. It's the 11th corner coming up for Fulham. Which will be all cross on the left-hand side. But it's a good header by Tossing. And it's a great one-handed save by Jordan Pickford. Big hand to flick it up in the air. Up and over the crossbar for another corner to Tim Ream. Down it goes for Anthony Robinson. That's a nicely weighted ball. He can take the low cross on first time. And then Bobby de Cordova-Reed. Just scuffed the shot a little bit. There was a last gasp. Challenge came in from Mikalenko. That did just enough, I think, to put Bobby off. He still got the shot away first time. But not the cleanest of contacts. And it just trickled past the post. With Jordan Pickford going down. Full stretch. Debatable. We possibly would say he would have got his fingertips on that. But holding off Nathan Patterson. Finds Tom Cairney once more. Just can't seem to find the space to get the killer ball in. But that's a lovely pass for Bobby de Cordova-Reed. Floats it into the box. Oh, the header from Younis. Straight at the keeper. Six yards from goal. He's got to go one side or the other for me. I mean, you give credit, I suppose, to the keeper. He's taken up the perfect position. But you've got to go left or right, really, Jamie. You go back the way the ball was coming. He really has taken a long, long time. McNeil. He floats it in. Headed across goal. Works an open goal. Benetto. Beto, I should say. And he's headed it not into the netto. Thankfully. Really, once it was headed back across goal, and he's got his head to it, he had to lean back a little bit. The ball was maybe slightly behind him. But from that sort of range, Jamie, he's got to be scoring. But here they come again. We haven't cleared our lines. It's an opportunity here for a shot on target. It's blocked by Pellegna. But it's gone for a corner. James Garner's effort. Their fourth of this second half. Fulham have had 12. Very rare you'll see 16 corners in the second half of a game. But there's two balls on the pitch at the moment. Bobby de Cordova just dropping that one away to the ball girl. Behind the goal there. James Garner will swing the corner in from the left-hand side. We're close to the end now. Right in front of goal. They've had two or three goes. How they haven't scored, really. Everybody's heart was in their mouth there, I think. And the Hammersmith end, I couldn't even describe. They were all, everyone was swinging their boot at it.