Fulham 2-1 Chelsea: Joao Felix sent off on debut as pressure increases on boss Graham Potter

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Joao Felix was sent disconnected connected his Chelsea debut arsenic his caller broadside mislaid a westbound London derby astatine Fulham to summation the unit connected Blues brag Graham Potter.

Joao Felix, who lone joined Chelsea connected Wednesday successful a £9.7m indebtedness woody until the extremity of the play from Atletico Madrid, was shown a consecutive reddish paper for a horrible lunge connected defender Kenny Tete aft 58 minutes.

It was 1-1 astatine the time, with Willian putting the hosts up against his erstwhile broadside successful the archetypal half, earlier Kalidou Koulibaly equalised aboriginal successful the second.

But the 10 men of Chelsea could not bent connected to a constituent arsenic Carlos Vinicius headed successful a 72nd-minute winner.

Potter's Blues broadside started brightly, but the hosts astir took the pb erstwhile Chelsea mislaid possession and Carlos Vinicius played a walk done to Bobby de Cordova-Reid, who fired against the crossbar with Kepa Arrizabalaga beaten.

But Chelsea fell down 2 minutes aboriginal successful the 25th minute.

It was mediocre defending from the visitors arsenic teenage left-back Lewis Hall failed to clear, earlier Trevoh Chalobah should person done amended with his clearance.

The shot fell to Willian and the Brazil midfielder, a two-time Premier League victor during a seven-year spell astatine Chelsea, saw his onslaught instrumentality a large deflection disconnected Chalobah to springiness Arrizabalaga nary chance. Willian did not observe against his erstwhile team.

But Chelsea equalised wrong 2 minutes of the 2nd fractional arsenic Koulibaly reacted quickest to unit the shot implicit the enactment from adjacent scope aft Mason Mount's free-kick had bounced disconnected the left-hand post.

Joao Felix had been the visitors' champion subordinate earlier his dismissal near his broadside connected the backmost foot, with Vinicius scoring the winner.

Chelsea person present lone won doubly successful 10 matches successful each competitions.

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Fulham

Squad number17Player nameLeno
Squad number2Player nameTete
Squad number4Player nameTosin
Squad number13Player nameReam
Squad number33Player nameRobinson
Squad number26Player nameJoão Palhinha
Squad number6Player nameReed
Squad number14Player nameDe Cordova-Reid
Squad number18Player nameAndreas Pereira
Squad number20Player nameWillian
Squad number30Player nameCarlos Vinícius

Squad number8Player nameWilson
Squad number10Player nameCairney
Squad number11Player nameSolomon
Squad number12Player nameChalobah
Squad number21Player nameJames

Chelsea

Squad number1Player nameArrizabalaga
Squad number14Player nameChalobah
Squad number6Player nameThiago Silva
Squad number26Player nameKoulibaly
Squad number28Player nameAzpilicueta
Squad number19Player nameMount
Squad number20Player nameZakaria
Squad number8Player nameKovacic
Squad number67Player nameHall
Squad number11Player nameJoão Félix
Squad number29Player nameHavertz

Squad number5Player nameJorginho
Squad number22Player nameZiyech
Squad number23Player nameGallagher
Squad number30Player nameChukwuemeka
Squad number32Player nameCucurella

Line-ups

Fulham

Formation 4-2-3-1

17LenoBooked astatine 90mins
2Tete
4TosinBooked astatine 84mins
13Ream
33RobinsonBooked astatine 9mins
26João Palhinha
6ReedSubstituted forCairneyat 68'minutes
14De Cordova-ReidSubstituted forWilsonat 68'minutes
18PereiraBooked astatine 14minsSubstituted forJamesat 90+3'minutes
20WillianSubstituted forSolomonat 83'minutes
30Alves MoraisSubstituted forChalobahat 90+4'minutes

Substitutes

1Rodák
3Kurzawa
8Wilson
10Cairney
11Solomon
12Chalobah
21James
31Diop
38Harris

Chelsea

Formation 3-5-2

1Arrizabalaga
14ChalobahBooked astatine 36minsSubstituted forCucurellaat 79'minutes
6Thiago Silva
26Koulibaly
28Azpilicueta
19MountBooked astatine 76minsSubstituted forZiyechat 80'minutes
20ZakariaSubstituted forJorginhoat 56'minutes
8KovacicSubstituted forGallagherat 79'minutes
67HallBooked astatine 62minsSubstituted forChukwuemekaat 79'minutes
11João FélixBooked astatine 58mins
29Havertz

Substitutes

4Badiashile
5Jorginho
9Aubameyang
13Bettinelli
22Ziyech
23Gallagher
27Fofana
30Chukwuemeka
32Cucurella

Live Text

Match ends, Fulham 2, Chelsea 1.
Second Half ends, Fulham 2, Chelsea 1.
Bernd Leno (Fulham) is shown the yellowish card.
Foul by Carney Chukwuemeka (Chelsea).
Tom Cairney (Fulham) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Substitution, Fulham. Nathaniel Chalobah replaces Carlos Vinícius.
Substitution, Fulham. Dan James replaces Andreas Pereira.
Foul by Kai Havertz (Chelsea).
Tim Ream (Fulham) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Attempt saved. Kai Havertz (Chelsea) near footed changeable from the near broadside of the container is saved successful the bottommost close corner. Assisted by Kalidou Koulibaly.
Conor Gallagher (Chelsea) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Foul by Carlos Vinícius (Fulham).
Corner, Fulham. Conceded by César Azpilicueta.
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Tosin Adarabioyo.
Offside, Chelsea. Marc Cucurella tries a done ball, but Kai Havertz is caught offside.
Tosin Adarabioyo (Fulham) is shown the yellowish card.
Substitution, Fulham. Manor Solomon replaces Willian.
Foul by Kalidou Koulibaly (Chelsea).
Carlos Vinícius (Fulham) wins a escaped footwear connected the close wing.
Attempt blocked. Marc Cucurella (Chelsea) close footed changeable from the near broadside of the container is blocked. Assisted by Carney Chukwuemeka.

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