Marco Silva believes Fulham claimed a “deserved win” in opposition to Brentford, although admits they need to have secured the three factors a lot earlier of their 2-1 victory.
It seemed like Vitaly Janelt’s Twenty fourth-minute strike in opposition to the run of play was going to wrap up all three factors for Brentford, however Harry Wilson proved the Cottagers’ hero off the bench, scoring twice in stoppage time to grab the three factors.
Fulham had dominated from the primary whistle and had 26 photographs, 12 of which have been heading in the right direction, although they struggled to discover a well past their opponents’ staunch defence till the 92nd minute.
Wilson turned simply the sixth participant to attain an equalising and match-winning objective from the ninetieth minute onwards within the Premier League, whereas his second objective was Fulham’s latest-ever Premier League winner at 96:46.
Silva was delighted with how his group pushed till the ultimate seconds to make sure they got here away with a win.
“It was undoubtedly a deserved win. We began on the entrance foot and dominated all the sport. Within the first 20 minutes, we had two clear probabilities to attain,” Silva informed BBC Sport.
“After they scored, we didn’t lose the boldness and the belief in ourselves, we stored pushing them again, and we created sufficient to not be dropping at half-time.
“I informed the gamers that is soccer, it could possibly occur, however now we have to maintain pushing, working exhausting and enjoying our approach.
“It was late, it ought to’ve been a lot earlier than, however that’s soccer.”
Brentford, in the meantime, have now dropped a league-high 14 factors from profitable positions within the Premier League as they suffered a fifth consecutive away defeat within the competitors.
In actual fact, they’re the primary aspect within the competitors’s historical past to attain the primary objective in 4 consecutive away video games and lose all 4.
They’d defended resolutely till their late lapse in focus, and even had an opportunity to win it, just for Bernd Leno’s spectacular save to maintain out Fabio Carvalho within the ninety fifth minute.
Thomas Frank, although, admitted he was not but able to take the positives from the efficiency after the frustration of their late defeat.
“It was powerful. It’s emotionally very powerful proper now,” Frank informed Sky Sports activities.
“If you end up main within the 92nd minute, and also you lose, it’s powerful. I don’t suppose we hit our highest degree. I feel on the day Fulham have been higher.
“There was numerous good defending and energy, and I assumed that may have given us the win. We might have gained it with the prospect for Fabio Carvalho after which we misplaced.
“Once we take a look at the sport again, and we’re extra cool-headed, we are going to most likely be very proud of the defensive customary. I assumed there have been unbelievable blocks, and restoration runs and all that we did properly. On the ball, we didn’t do sufficient.”
