Harry Wilson bends the free-kick into the top left corner.
90'+1'
Yellow Card
Babis Kostoulas trips King 30 yards from the Albion goal. Yellow card for the Greek, dangerous free-kick position for the hosts.
90'
FOUR MINUTES ADDED TIME
88'
Substitution
Fabian Hurzeler makes a triple change as Babis Kostoulas, Georginio and Maxim De Cuyper replace Olivier Boscagli, Pascal Gross and Danny Welbeck.
81'
Substitution
Fabian Hurzeler makes a double change as James Milner and Yankuba Minteh replace Carlos Baleba and Diego Gomez.
78'
LENO DENIES WELBECK
Albion do nearly everything right there as Pascal Gross swings in a perfectly weighted cross for Welbeck to meet in the middle, the striker sends it towards goal but Leno gets fingertips on it to tip it over for a corner!
74'
VAR
Kaoru Mitoma plays in Welbeck and the striker squeezes the ball into the bottom right corner for an immediate response!
But VAR intervene and Danny Welbeck is a matter of inches offside.
73'
Goal
Equaliser for Fulham. A long ball down-field is brought under control by Chukwueze and he rolls it into the bottom left corner.
66'
Yellow Card
Sander Berge goes into the book as Welbeck dances away from him and then as retribution brings the Albion striker down.
56'
JUST WIDE FROM WELBECK
Mitoma is in a great position to find Welbeck in the middle of the Fulham box but gets his cross all wrong. Gomez slides in to keep the ball in on the other side of the pitch and finds Kadioglu. His cross is nodded back across the face of goal by Mitoma and Welbeck flicks it wide on the stretch from eight yards!
51'
DUNK HEADS AGAINST DIEGO
Gross' corner is cleared back to the German, who crosses to the back stick for Dunk, he heads down and it hits the back of Gomez and goes behind for a goal-kick! Watching the replay, it looks as if it's going wide anyway.
46'
Second Half begins
Back at it for the second half.
45'+1'
Half-Time
Albion lead at the break.
Pick that out.
36'
NEAR NIGHTMARE FOR LENO
Gomez has the ball taken away from him in the Fulham box and in trying to deny a corner, Leno keeps it in play for Pascal Gross. The German has possession on the far right of the box and crosses looking for a teammate with Leno miles out of his goal, but nobody is there to meet it!
30'
BIG CHANCE FOR A SECOND
That's a glorious opportunity for a second as Mitoma brings down Dunk's pass down field. He takes a touch and shoots from the left of the box, Leno keeps it out, Kadioglu nods it back towards goal on the follow up, but it's cleared off the line! Castagne doesn't look all that confident when Mitoma has the ball.
28'
FUL
0-0
BHA
Goal!
Ayari
TERRIFIC GOAL FROM YASIN AYARI!!!
That's a wicked thwack from the Sweden international as he cuts in from the left and hits it from 20 yards into the top left corner!
On first inspection you think Leno has made a mistake, but to be fair to him, the ball is moving all over the shop. 1-0 to the Albion.
26'
JIMENEZ'S VOLLEY EASY FOR VERBRUGGEN
It's only easy for the Albion keeper as it takes a deflection off Dunk on the way through and it bobbles towards Verbruggen.
24'
VERBRUGGEN SAVES AT CLOSE QUARTERS
Jimenez gets away from Dunk in the box and has a fierce effort from an acute angle batted away by Verbruggen. The Mexico international will no doubt feel like he should have scored.
20'
CUENCA HEADS OVER
Wilson crosses in from a Fulham corner and Cuenca rises to meet it, nodding over from 12 yards. If he'd kept that down we might have had a couple of problems. As it happens, he didn't.
Wilson smashes over from a little over 25 yards.
16'
FERDI CLEARS
Wilson blocks a Verbruggen clearance before the ball is crossed into the Albion box, but Kadioglu is alive to the situation and boots it into the Riverside Stand. You'd say Fulham have looked the more dangerous in these opening 15 minutes.
4'
KEVIN THUMPS OVER
The Fulham player roulettes Pascal Gross on the edge of the Albion box and after that he has to shoot, but he gets under it a bit and it's well over Bart Verbruggen's goal. Lovely skill, poor finish.
1'
Kick-off
Underway at the Cottage.
Olivier Boscagli will make his third Premier League start this afternoon.
Lewis Dunk scored the last time Albion won a league game at Craven Cottage - a 2-1 victory in 2017.
The Fulham team.
The Albion team.
Chris Hughton spoke ahead of the game at The Temperance in Fulham. He received a very warm welcome from the attending Albion fans, who turned out in force.
Match News
Saturday 24 January 2026
POST-MATCH | Hurzeler And Ayari | Fulham v BrightonBrighton head coach Fabian Hurzeler and goalscorer Yasin Ayari give their reaction to a cruel defeat at Craven Cottage.
Saturday 24 January 2026
Hurzeler: Football can be brutal sometimesHead coach reflects on stoppage-time defeat to Fulham.
Saturday 24 January 2026
Stoppage-time stunner for AlbionHarry Wilson's late free-kick earns Fulham a 2-1 win after Yasin Ayari put Albion in front.
Saturday 24 January 2026
Gallery: Match action from Craven CottageDisappointment for Albion in West London as Fabian Hurzeler’s men are beaten 2-1 by Fulham.
Club photographer James Boardman was in the capital to capture the action.
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