Fulham, led by the Portuguese Marco Silva, added this Thursday the fourth consecutive victory in the English Football League, against Chelsea (2-1), in which João Félix made his debut, who ended up expelled at the end of the game . seventh round.
In the London derby, at Craven Cottage, attention was focused on the striker on loan from Atlético de Madrid until the end of the season, but the first game for the ‘blues’ will not be one to remember, especially with the aggravating factor of being out of the next three Premier League games.
With Portuguese midfielder João Palhinha among the starters for the locals, it was Brazilian Willian who opened the scoring and then against the team he represented between 2013 and 2020, when 25 minutes had passed.
In the second half, Chelsea’s reaction could not have been better, as the Senegalese center-back Koulibaly (47) took advantage of a rebound in the area to restore equality, 11 minutes before João Félix had lost his way in a dispute with the ball. Tete. , receiving, therefore, the direct red card.
The former Benfica player is the first player sent off by Chelsea on his Premier League debut and the first to do so for any club since Federico Fazio, who also received a sending off order while representing Tottenham, in October 2014, in a match against Manchester City.
With a numerical advantage, Carlos Vinícius, also a former Benfica player, took advantage of the absence of regular starter Mitrovic to become the hero of the match, scoring the winning goal with his head in the 73rd minute.
With this victory, and despite being the only club in the competition with 19 games played, Fulham occupies sixth place, with 31 points, in a table that is headed separately by Arsenal (44). Chelsea, for their part, occupies tenth place, with 25.
Source: TSF
