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Harrison Reed's 2nd extremity for Fulham broke the deadlock astatine Craven CottageFulham accrued the unit connected beleaguered Aston Villa manager Steven Gerrard with a deserved triumph astatine Craven Cottage.
Harrison Reed gave the location broadside the lead, drilling location aft Villa goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez had punched a country into the midfielder's path.
Andreas Pereira went adjacent connected 2 occasions, portion Aleksandar Mitrovic had a far-post header cleared disconnected the enactment by Tyrone Mings arsenic the location broadside dominated the archetypal half.
Villa's evening went from atrocious to worse conscionable aft the hr mark, erstwhile Douglas Luiz was shown a consecutive reddish paper aft being adjudged by the video adjunct referee to person head-butted Mitrovic successful an off-the-ball altercation.
The location broadside wasted small clip successful capitalising connected their numerical advantage, Mitrovic doubling their pb from the punishment spot aft the striker's changeable had struck Matty Cash connected the arm.
The visitors' misery was implicit erstwhile Mings diverted Neeskens Kebano's debased transverse into his ain nett - a extremity which was greeted by chants of "you're getting sacked successful the morning" by sections of the distant end.
The effect leaves Gerrard's broadside teetering precariously supra the relegation portion successful 17th, portion Fulham ascent into the apical half.
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Villa fans crook connected Gerrard
Having booed their players disconnected the tract pursuing Saturday's location decision by Chelsea, the Villa supporters erstwhile again made their feelings known arsenic the visitors traipsed disconnected the Craven Cottage transportation astatine half-time - and again successful the second stages of the contest.
Unmistakable chants of "You're getting sacked successful the morning" and "Steven Gerrard, get retired of our club" echoed astir the crushed pursuing Mings' ain goal, which capped a hopeless show from the distant broadside successful westbound London.
Only the goal-line clearance from Mings and respective awesome saves from Martinez kept the scoreline down successful the archetypal half.
It could person been overmuch worse for Gerrard's side, who offered Marco Silva's squad acold excessively overmuch abstraction successful the last 3rd - peculiarly down Fulham's near - portion offering precious small arsenic an attacking threat.
The determination to regenerate striker Danny Ings with Leander Dendoncker pursuing Luiz's dismissal was met by shouts of "We privation Gerrard out" from sections of the Putney End.
Former Liverpool and England skipper Gerrard said earlier the crippled that his broadside were "a batch person to wherever we privation to be" successful presumption of show levels - but this was precise overmuch a measurement successful the incorrect absorption for the 42-year-old and his players.
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Fulham
Squad number17Player nameLeno
Squad number14Player nameDe Cordova-Reid
Squad number31Player nameDiop
Squad number13Player nameReam
Squad number33Player nameRobinson
Squad number6Player nameReed
Squad number26Player nameJoão Palhinha
Squad number20Player nameWillian
Squad number18Player nameAndreas Pereira
Squad number7Player nameKebano
Squad number9Player nameMitrovic
Squad number8Player nameWilson
Squad number10Player nameCairney
Squad number21Player nameJames
Squad number30Player nameCarlos Vinícius
Squad number38Player nameHarris
Aston Villa
Squad number1Player nameMartínez
Squad number4Player nameKonsa
Squad number20Player nameBednarek
Squad number5Player nameMings
Squad number18Player nameYoung
Squad number41Player nameJ Ramsey
Squad number6Player nameDouglas Luiz
Squad number7Player nameMcGinn
Squad number31Player nameBailey
Squad number11Player nameWatkins
Squad number9Player nameIngs
Squad number2Player nameCash
Squad number10Player nameBuendía
Squad number32Player nameDendoncker
Squad number35Player nameArcher
Line-ups
Fulham
Formation 4-2-3-1
- 17Leno
- 14De Cordova-Reid
- 31Diop
- 13Ream
- 33Robinson
- 6ReedSubstituted forCairneyat 73'minutes
- 26Lobo Alves Palhinha Gonçalves
- 20WillianSubstituted forJamesat 73'minutes
- 18PereiraSubstituted forHarrisat 87'minutes
- 7KebanoSubstituted forWilsonat 85'minutes
- 9MitrovicSubstituted forAlves Moraisat 85'minutes
Substitutes
- 1Rodák
- 4Tosin
- 5Duffy
- 8Wilson
- 10Cairney
- 21James
- 27Mbabu
- 30Alves Morais
- 38Harris
Aston Villa
Formation 4-3-2-1
- 1Martínez
- 4Konsa
- 20BednarekSubstituted forCashat 45'minutes
- 5MingsBooked astatine 60mins
- 18Young
- 41J RamseySubstituted forArcherat 81'minutes
- 6Douglas LuizBooked astatine 62mins
- 7McGinn
- 31BaileyBooked astatine 57minsSubstituted forBuendíaat 58'minutes
- 11Watkins
- 9IngsSubstituted forDendonckerat 69'minutes
Substitutes
- 2Cash
- 8Sanson
- 10Buendía
- 16Chambers
- 19Nakamba
- 23Coutinho
- 25Olsen
- 32Dendoncker
- 35Archer
Referee:Michael Oliver
Attendance:23,508
Live Text
Match ends, Fulham 3, Aston Villa 0.
Second Half ends, Fulham 3, Aston Villa 0.
Daniel James (Fulham) wins a escaped footwear connected the close wing.
Foul by Emiliano Buendía (Aston Villa).
Corner, Fulham. Conceded by Ashley Young.
Attempt missed. Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa) near footed changeable from the near broadside of the container is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Emiliano Buendía.
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by Issa Diop.
Foul by Luke Harris (Fulham).
Tyrone Mings (Aston Villa) wins a escaped footwear successful the attacking half.
Substitution, Fulham. Luke Harris replaces Andreas Pereira.
João Palhinha (Fulham) wins a escaped footwear connected the near wing.
Foul by Cameron Archer (Aston Villa).
Foul by Carlos Vinícius (Fulham).
Emiliano Buendía (Aston Villa) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Substitution, Fulham. Carlos Vinícius replaces Aleksandar Mitrovic.
Substitution, Fulham. Harry Wilson replaces Neeskens Kebano.
Own Goal by Tyrone Mings, Aston Villa. Fulham 3, Aston Villa 0.
Substitution, Aston Villa. Cameron Archer replaces Jacob Ramsey.
Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by Antonee Robinson.
Attempt blocked. Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa) close footed changeable from the centre of the container is blocked. Assisted by Ashley Young with a cross.
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