Fulham’s blunders punished in surprise home defeat

Premier League-bound Fulham suffered a surprise defeat at Craven Cottage, where awful errors by Marek Rodak and Tim Ream were punished.

The Whites, who remain on the verge of promotion back to the top flight, were stunned by two Coventry City goals in the space of four minutes midway through the first half.

Bobby De Cordova-Reid pulled a goal back late on, but Ream stepping on the ball led to Callum O’Hare adding a third for the Sky Blues in stoppage time.

Centre-back Michael Rose opened the scoring by heading home Gustavo Hamer’s left-wing corner.

Rodak then fumbled Viktor Gyokeres’ shot, allowing the ball to squirm past him and into the net.

That left Fulham facing an uphill task, but they almost reduced the deficit before the interval when Neco Williams’ right-wing cross was volleyed against the bar by Neeskens Kebano.

In the second half, Fabio Carvalho headed wide from a cross by Harry Wilson, who fired just over from a free-kick as the Championship leaders turned up the pressure.

Simon Moore dived to his right to push away a rasping shot from Williams but the former Brentford keeper was unable to prevent De Cordova-Reid scoring with seven minutes remaining.

De Cordova-Reid laid the ball to his left to Josh Onomah and collected the return pass from his fellow substitute before shooting into the bottom corner.

As Fulham tried in vain to find an equaliser, Moore kept out Rodrigo Muniz’s deflected effort and Antonee Robinson’s cross was headed over by Aleksandar Mitrovic.

And Coventry sealed their win when Hamer capitalised on Ream’s stumble by laying the ball across for O’Hare to score with a simple tap-in.

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Fulham: Rodak, Williams (Onomah 74), Tosin, Ream, Robinson, Reed, Chalobah (De Cordova-Reid 45), Wilson, Carvalho, Kebano (Muniz 74), Mitrovic.
Subs not used: Gazzaniga, Hector, Bryan, Seri.

(Muniz 74)