Brentford vs Fulham LIVE: Premier League result, final score and reaction
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Brentford fuelled their ambition of playing European football with a 3-2 home victory over fellow hopefuls Fulham to extend their unbeaten run in the Premier League to 12 games on Monday.
Ivan Toney’s second-half penalty and a late effort by Mathias Jensen sealed the points for ninth-placed Brentford against their west London rivals to edge them closer to the European qualification places.
Toney, who is facing FA charges and a possible ban after alleged breaches of gambling rules, coolly slotted his kick past Fulham keeper Bernd Leno in the 53rd minute after a clumsy foul by Issa Diop on Christian Norgaard.
Jensen then tapped in from a tight angle after a superb run and cut back by Kevin Schade in the 85th minute to kill of a below-par Fulham whose four-game unbeaten run came to an end.
Brentford had taken an early lead with a deflected shot by Ethan Pinnock but Fulham hit back shortly before halftime when Manor Solomon scored for the fourth successive league match.
Fulham’s Carlos Vinicius did grab a stoppage-time consolation with almost the last kick but Thomas Frank’s Brentford side are now unbeaten in the Premier League since October and have 38 points from 24 games, one point behind seventh-placed Fulham and four behind fifth-placed Liverpool.
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Brentford's high press is still causing Fulham a lot of problems. Leno just clears his lines before Jensen closes him down, but Tete then puts it straight out of play under pressure from Norgaard.
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Toney has scored all 22 penalties that he's taken for Brentford in all competitions.
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SO CLOSE! Lukic has his pocket picked just inside Brentford's half and Norgaard knocks it onto Toney. He takes it over the halfway line when he spots Leno off his line. He goes for an audacious effort that has the keeper scrambling back, and it lands on the roof of the net.
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Tete has a cut just above his eye that needed patching up. Once they've stopped the bleeding, he's back on his feet and will be able to carry on.
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There's a clash of heads between Wissa and Tete, with the right-back staying down. The medical team are on to patch him up.
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Fulham are starting to find their rhythm again now, and they work it neatly upfield from the back. Pereira floats a corner out to Willian on the far side, but he can't pick out a team-mate with his cross.
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