A dramatic Gabriel Gudmundsson own goal in stoppage time handed Fulham a fortunate first Premier League win of the season at the expense of Leeds United.<\/b><\/p>\n
In the fourth minute of added time at the end of a largely drab encounter, the Swedish left-back inadvertently guided an attempted headed clearance into the far corner to gift Marco Silva’s side a morale-boosting three points.<\/p>\n
The first half at Craven Cottage had been a non-event as both sides not only struggled to create meaningful opportunities, but also sent numerous passes astray in the final third.<\/p>\n
The best, and only, chances fell to Leeds with Dominic Calvert-Lewin sending a free header straight at Bernd Leno and Sean Longstaff’s rasping drive clipping the top of the crossbar.<\/p>\n
Brenden Aaronson also forced Leno into a smart save after getting on the end of Anton Stach’s delivery early in the second half, before Jayden Bogle sent a tame effort into the German keeper’s arms from long range.<\/p>\n
Fulham finally started to flex their attacking muscles midway through the second half and Karl Darlow, replacing injured Leeds first-choice keeper Lucas Perri, produced a fine stop to claw away Harry Wilson’s free-kick – the home side’s first attempt of the entire game.<\/p>\n
Deadline day signing Kevin had a curling drive tipped over the crossbar by Darlow – making his first Premier League start since 2021 – as Fulham increased the pressure late on.<\/p>\n
And from the resulting corner they got their break when Gudmundsson’s error gifted them victory and took them above Leeds on five points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dramatic Gabriel Gudmundsson own goal in stoppage time handed Fulham a fortunate first Premier League win of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-422617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115200347029091642","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}