Fulham throw away late lead as Wolves fight back for point
The points were shared at Craven Cottage
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Your support makes all the difference.Fulham were forced to settle for a point after Wolves fought back at Craven Cottage.
Substitute Ryan Sessegnon climbed off the bench to slam home what he thought would be the winner late on but Romain Saiss profited from yet more poor defending to grab a share of the spoils.
The point sees Claudio Ranieri's men climb off the bottom of the table, at least temporarily.
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CHANCE! Fulham 0-0 Wolves (12 mins)
Wolves improving and what fantastic play from Jimenez as the striker takes control of a punt forward, takes another touch to set himself up and hits it on the volley but it goes over the bar.
Replays show that they should've had a penalty moments earlier though as Odoi clearly handles the ball.
Gary Neville is not impressed with the defending.
CHANCE! Fulham 0-0 Wolves (16 mins)
Fulham with a big chance of their own as Schurrle motors down the right hand side and puts a ball towards the edge of the box where Mitrovic is hanging about.
He takes the ball around the defenders but is slightly off balance and hits it wide.
Free-kick Wolves now in a dangerous position.
Fulham 0-0 Wolves
It's a game of limited action and limited noise.
The crowd is quiet but neither team is giving the other any space.
Chambers narrowly avoids a yellow card for a rather rash and late tackle.
Otherwise, there's very little else to tell you at the moment.
25 mins: CHANCE! Fulham 0-0 Wolves
Good work from Fulham down the right hand side sees the ball come to Christie. He guides in a wonderful cross to the path of Mitrovic at the far post but his header is straight at Patricio.
They come again and play some nice one twos on the left hand side with the ball falling to Schurrle who takes a shot from the edge of the box, forcing Patricio into another save.
CHANCE FULHAM! Fulham 0-0 Wolves (28 mins)
Big chance for Fulham and some neat interplay on the right sees Kamara tee up Christie who's bearing down on goal.
He's got lots of options but he opts to shoot and his effort goes narrowly wide and beyond the reach of Mitrovic.
Not much in it, though.
Fulham steadily improving.
Chance Wolves! Fulham 0-0 Wolves
Wolves fashion a chance of their own now through Raul Jimenez and it's a good one.
He makes great contact with the volley and forces Rico into a good stop.
37 mins: Fulham 0-0 Wolves
This game is coming in peaks and troughs of good stuff and this has been a good minute.
Wolves attacked well but lost out and Kamara broke away well.
Used his pace to burst past the Wolves' defence and played in a reasonable ball with his left foot but it was well dealt with.
HUGE CHANCE FULHAM! Fulham 0-0 Wolves (40 mins)
A miscued clearance falls to Mitrovic in the box and his bit of skill was absolutely phenomenal to set himself up.
He took the ball down well, jinked round Boly, then moved the ball on to his left foot, slaloming past Coady and he was one-on-one with Patricio but the big frame of the Portuguese helped keep the scores level.
Big big chance gone, not long until half time.
44 mins: Fulham 0-0 Wolves
Handbags here as a few niggly fouls sees players from both sides confront each other and there's a bit of pushing and shoving.
Christie, Chambers and Saiss are all booked for their part.
Chambers is lucky to be on the pitch, in all likelihood.
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