Second-half goals from Harry Wilson, Emile Smith Rowe and Kevin helped Fulham come from behind to defeat Middlesbrough in the FA Cup third round. <\/b><\/p>\n
Boro, second in the Championship, opened the scoring through Hayden Hackney but the Cottagers turned to their strong bench in the second half.<\/p>\n
The visitors went 1-0 up at Craven Cottage on the half-hour mark after fantastic work from Sam Silvera, who exchanged a one-two with Aidan Morris in the box and nutmegged both Ryan Sessegnon and Jorge Cuenca to square the ball for Hackney. <\/p>\n
The Boro defence were rarely troubled until the final five minutes of the first half, but Luke Ayling had to clear off the line after Spanish centre-back Cuenca’s first-time shot from a Harrison Reed corner in the 42nd minute. <\/p>\n
Fulham, however, failed to sustain their late first-half flourish after the break, opting for a triple change after 11 minutes of the second half as regulars Wilson, Raul Jimenez and Tom Cairney were introduced.<\/p>\n
And it produced an instant impact as Wilson’s delightful curling shot from the edge of the box – less than four minutes after coming on – levelled the tie. <\/p>\n
Tommy Conway almost restored Boro’s lead two minutes later but was denied by the crossbar – and it was the Premier League side who struck next. <\/p>\n
Cairney passed into the feet of Smith Rowe, who was afforded space inside the box and capitalised to bury past Boro goalkeeper Sol Brynn.<\/p>\n
There was still time for Kevin to score his first goal for Fulham as the Brazilian winger connected with Wilson’s cross from close range to send his side into the fourth round for the seventh season running. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Second-half goals from Harry Wilson, Emile Smith Rowe and Kevin helped Fulham come from behind to defeat Middlesbrough…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-687589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115873016896316402","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687589","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=687589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}