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Hull CityHull City arrived at Craven Cottage without a win in their last five, and they left the same way. Fulham did what the better team at home is supposed to do: scored once, controlled the rest, and held on — just about.
The match turned on a single moment of quality in the 33rd minute. Sander Berge slid the pass through, Alex Iwobi read it perfectly and finished. One goal, and that was enough to settle it. Our pre-match read had Fulham as 58% favorites, and the game never seriously challenged that assessment.
The First Half: Yellow Cards and One Clean Strike
Before the goal, the match had a bit of a bite to it. Lucas Herrington picked up a yellow for Hull in the 22nd minute, and five minutes later both Josh King and Regan Slater were booked in what looked like the same flashpoint — cards flying in quick succession at the 27-minute mark. The game had an edge, but Fulham were clearly the more comfortable side.
When Iwobi's goal arrived, it felt like the natural order asserting itself. Hull had no real answer going forward — they finished the match with five shots and not one of them on target. Fulham's goalkeeper was, by the numbers, a spectator. Hull's keeper, on the other hand, made five saves to keep the scoreline from getting worse.
The Second Half: Fulham Turn the Volume Down
With the lead secured, Fulham were content to manage. Seventy-six percent possession, 715 passes at 90% accuracy, eleven corners — this was a team that knew exactly how to suffocate an opponent without taking risks. Hull barely got out of their own half with any purpose.
Berge, who had set up the only goal, picked up a yellow of his own in the 84th minute, which will rule him out of... actually, that's Fulham's problem to sort. The bigger concern came deep in stoppage time: Ryan Sessegnon was shown a red card in the 90+4th minute, right as the final whistle was approaching. ¡Ala gran púchica! — you wait the whole game, and then you lose a man when it's practically over. It won't cost them the result, but it's a clumsy way to end an otherwise controlled afternoon.
Verdict
Fulham will feel this was professional rather than pretty. They didn't need to be brilliant — Hull's form coming in (one win in five, drawing and losing in rotation) suggested a team low on confidence, and nothing at Craven Cottage changed that read. The 1-0 scoreline flatters Hull slightly; the gap in quality over 90 minutes was wider than that.
The question now is whether Fulham can string results together after a recent run that included two draws, a win, another draw, and a loss. One clean sheet and three points is a start. Hull, meanwhile, look like a side that needs something to change — tactically, or in terms of personnel — before the table starts to look genuinely worrying.
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