Fulham vs Manchester United LIVE: Premier League result and final score after late Bruno Fernandes goal

58 mins: CLOSE! The game starts to open up and Willian has another chance to shoot at goal from range. The Brazilian looks to shoot towards the far post and then whips a shot back towards the near post. It almost catches out Onana - but Willian pulls it wide of goal.

57 mins: Chance! Fulham will want this back! Wilson led the break and had so much room to drive into. He reaches the edge of the box and feeds it wide to Willian on the left. If the ball was better, Willian could have shot, but it slows him down and he instead looks for the cross. Maguire reads it well to block.

54 mins: United are sustaining their attacks now; Fulham have been camped in their half since the restart.

Hojlund has seen very little of the ball, though, it may only take a moment, but United aren’t creating chances.

United’s attack then breaks down as Maguire’s ball towards Dalot drifts out of play.

50 mins: Ooooh. Danger again from Garnacho - who takes on Castagne and beats him on the outside. It looks like a replica of last season’s winner as he takes the shot with his left foot, but Castagne makes the block with Hojlund lurking at the back post.

Hojlund wanted that and made Garnacho know about it.

47 mins: SAVE! Better from United - and it’s no surprise to see it’s Garnacho who is responsible. The winger cuts inside with a flick of his feet and powers a shot at goal - it takes a deflection and lands nicely for Leno into his grasp, but it just goes to show: that could have gone anywhere but United simply haven’t taken a chance enough.

45 mins: A great stat from TNT Sports as we start the second half: United have only led a Premier League game for 93 minutes this season, only Sheffield United and Luton have led for less this season.

‘This is Manchester United we’re talking about’.

No changes for United at the break... not sure how Ten Hag could have looked at that and thought it was ok.

Second half coming up next.

As it is, the big story of the day is still Marcus Rashford’s absence from the Manchester United squad.

The England striker was forced to apologise to United boss Erik ten Hag after attending a nightclub party following last weekend’s embarrassing derby defeat to Manchester City.

But Rashford was missing at Craven Cottage due to injury after taking a “heavy knock” in training.

Reports emerged the day after the City match that the England international, who turned 26 on Tuesday, had gone to the Chinawhite nightclub for a pre-arranged birthday party hours after the Old Trafford loss.

“Yes, I am aware of it,” manager Ten Hag said of Rashford’s post-derby night out.

“I spoke with him about it. It’s unacceptable, I told him, he apologised and that’s it. For the rest it’s an internal matter.

“He’s very motivated to put things right. So, he makes a mistake, but that doesn’t say he’s not fitting in. I see him every day in training, what he’s doing, I know.”

This can only get better, hopefully.

The big moment came when Scott McTominay’s opening goal was ruled out by referee John Brooks after consulting the pitchside monitor. In what was a subjective decision from the on-field official, Harry Maguire was ruled to have interfered with play after starting his run from an offside position, even though he did not touch the ball before Alejandro Garnacho squared to McTominay to score.

United will be upset at that - but they have offered very little since the disallowed goal in the eighth minute of the match.

45+4 mins: The classic ‘sums it up’ moment of the first half comes as Fernandes misshits a left-footed cross out for a goalkick under no pressure.

United have been flat, slow, and have offered basically no threat from open play.

And there’s half-time.