Fulham 0–0 Everton: Live | Patterson and Beto enter late.

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78′: Branthwaite is seated, and Everton is taking a break. It appears that Patterson and Beto will be joining soon. Calvert-Lewin and Young looking off.

75′-The Blues are able to partially clear two crosses, but Pereira’s close-range effort is partially blocked into the side netting, giving the ball a corner.
Cut short, and another corner is blocked by DCL. Once more, Willian staggers out of control and crosses, only for Pickford to make an AMAZING FLYING SAVE to stop Tosin’s header.

Pickford punches away another corner, temporarily eliminating the threat.

73′: Robinson secures a another corner. The ball is cleared as DCL heads it away.
Since Everton is currently without an out ball, Fulham is regaining possession of the ball and applying pressure.

70′ – Pickford gives McNeil a bad ball, putting Everton in danger once more while playing out of the back, but Branthwaite stops a chance admirably. The Blues then have an opportunity to respond, and although their final attempt is blocked, Young was still offside.

65′-Fulham counter-attacks quickly following a Branthwaite mishandle, a Muniz shot that Tarky blocks, and another corner. It goes off the top of the bar and into the box with the header pointing directly at Castagne!

64′ – Tarky makes another intervention, this time in the corner on the left. This time, the hit was long and going toward goal, but Pickford stopped it.

61′: DCL clears another corner, allowing Danjuma to attempt a counterattack but fall short of Robinson.
Right now, Fulham has another corner from the Blues. Muniz heads over after a brief, last cross in. living in peril.

59′-McNeil gives Myko and Cordova a lethal back pass.Reid is through on goal at this point. Godfrey needs to make an incredible sliding challenge to throw it out for a corner and stop a certain scoring.
Palhinha tucks the corner into the box and pings it around, just over, whew.

58’ – Everton have had 23 touches in the opponent’s box versus 11 for Fulham. For how little possession they’ve had, the Toffees surely have created a lot of chances.
Deep cross into the box and Fulham can’t let a shot off.

55’ – Branthwaite fouled in the middle. Pickford ball into the box headed down by Tarky to Godfrey, whose shot is deflected wide. Corner is deep, Leno misjudges it in traffic and DCL gets a head on it, and off the top of the bar! Ooh.
Diving header from DCL off Young’s lowish cross and it lands on the roof of the net, ooh again!

53’ – Blues almost get in trouble playing out the back there. McNeil miscontrols the ball and Fulham have it, but Muniz has drifted outside, lucky.

50’ – Danjuma helping out in defence, gives away a corner. Tarky heads it clear. Fulham come right back and now Myko has to put it out for a throw.
Dangerous cross into the box and Godfrey with a great intervention puts it out for a corner on the right. Taken short, partly cleared, Cordova-Reid hits a volley that Pickford collects.

47’ – Danjuma into acres of space, his deflected cross comes to Harrison who goes down in the box and the ref says no penalty, and no VAR review either. Right.

46’ – Second half underway, Raul is off, looks like it was an injury and now Muniz is on.

Halftime Thoughts – The makeshift formation has actually worked quite well, and the Blues have created some very good scoring chances, but have been unable to put the ball in the net. They have struggled to keep Fulham from spreading the ball wide, but have been mostly solid defending them.

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45’ – Godfrey and Young combine well, cross into the box is to high for DCL, ball comes to Danjuma and his cross is put out for a corner. Leno drops the corner, EXACTLY like he did in that season opener, but this time Fulham are able to clear.
A minute or so added on and there’s the halftime whistle, it’s 0-0.

42’ – Branthwaite booked, went in very hard and late on Raul.

41’ – WHEW! Fulham find Robinson wide open, his cross is overhit, Castagne’s shot deflected and Pickford is beaten by Tarky steps up and blocks it! Now Raul pounces on the rebound and it goes off the outside of the post, oh boy.

40’ – Pickers long ball controlled by DCL, sets up Harrison for a low shot, but once again straight at Leno.

38’ – Young cuts out a cross for a corner from the Everton right. Taken short, and now Pereira takes a swinging shot that might have had Pickford beaten but it’s just over.

37’ – Cairney dawdles on the ball and allows the Blues to get back into shape.
Willian however opens things up with a quick pass and now Fulham are charging forward but Pickford out quick to grab the through ball.

35’ – Willian on a give and go has a shooting chance, Branthwaite blocks the shot and it goes out for a goalkick off a Fulham shirt.

31’ – Fulham pass with intent an have an overload on their right, but Myko does brilliantly to cut the ball out and now the Blues can counter. McNeil’s pass for DCL is blocked but now Danjuma can run with it, cuts into his right and his shot is poor, argh.

29’ – Now Godfrey booked for a slight tug on Willian. The Brazilian went down like he was punched by Mike Tyson, but hey, whatever.

26’ – Harrison charging through the middle again and now Palhinha brings him down, and is booked, another freekick for the Blues! About 25 yards out, more central this time, Harrison smashes it right into the pink shirts in the wall, argh.

23’ – Robinson hacks down Young on the edge of the box, freekick to the Blues. Good range for Harrison here, leaning right as it is. Harrison goes over it, Young takes.. Leno parries it away into a crowd, Tarkowski hits it again, off a head, onto the bar, down off Robinson’s hand, and hooked off the goal line! It didn’t cross the line, and VAR says no penalty for Antonee’s handball as he couldn’t get his arm out of the way! Oh my.

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21’ – Freekick given against Danjuma for handball. Ball into the box from midfield, Palhinha gets his head to it and heads it narrowly over, whew.

20’ – Gotta love Everton’s travelling support, still making themselves heard no matter what position the club are in, even with just 30% possession.

18’ – Danjuma tries a low shot from distance, straight at Leno.

17’ – Luton have had a hot start at home scoring twice in three minutes against Brighton, and as things stand they have leapfrogged the Blues who have slipped into the relegation zone now.

14’ – DCL with a fantastic run through the middle of the Fulham defence, but takes on one man too many, Palhinha slides in and cuts the ball out.

13’ – The formation is not bad, but Everton look completely unable to hold the ball, so not sure how long they can park the bus like this.

9’ – Fulham camping in the Everton third, Robinson takes a potshot and Pickford saves well, gives away a corner. Partly cleared, and Fulham are pushed all the way back to the halfline.

7’ – So the formation is Godfrey at right back in a 4-4-1-1, with Danjuma and Young as the wide midfielders. McNeil is with Garner in the middle, and Harrison behind DCL up top.

5′ – A well-placed backpass and a powerful tackle in the middle of the pitch earn Fulham a corner. Pereira is hit by a stray gunfire.

4′ – The Blues are off to a good start as DCL’s shot is stopped. They then have a corner on the left, but nothing comes of it.

2′-Calvert-Lewin holds the ball up and positions himself up for Harrison’s attempt, which goes just narrowly wide from inside the box. Though I believe DCL was in error.

1′ – Kickoff: The match has begun at Craven Cottage.
Raul’s chance is effectively finished as Willian launches a bomb down the left and cuts in, leaving Godfrey for dead.

Initial Lineups

Everton: Ben Godfrey, Arnaut Danjuma, and Ashley Young will all start for the Blues in what is expected to be a rather experimental lineup due to Amadou Onana’s injury.

“He had a good game on Saturday to end it. After being knocked on, he noticed some fluid in his knee. Though we don’t believe it to be serious, this one has returned too soon.