Marco Silva believes Fulham claimed a “deserved win” towards 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 towards 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 pictures, 12 of which had been on course, although they struggled to discover a well past their opponents’ staunch defence till the 92nd minute.
Wilson grew to become simply the sixth participant to attain an equalising and match-winning purpose from the ninetieth minute onwards within the Premier League, whereas his second purpose was Fulham’s latest-ever Premier League winner at 96:46.
Silva was delighted with how his crew pushed till the ultimate seconds to make sure they got here away with a win.
“It was positively a deserved win. We began on the entrance foot and dominated all the sport. Within the first 20 minutes, we had two clear possibilities to attain,” Silva informed BBC Sport.
“After they scored, we didn’t lose the arrogance and the belief in ourselves, we stored pushing them again, and we created sufficient to not be shedding at half-time.
“I informed the gamers that is soccer, it could possibly occur, however we have now to maintain pushing, working laborious and taking part in our method.
“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 purpose in 4 consecutive away video games and lose all 4.
That they had 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 robust. It’s emotionally very robust proper now,” Frank informed Sky Sports activities.
“If you find yourself main within the 92nd minute, and also you lose, it’s robust. I don’t suppose we hit our highest degree. I believe on the day Fulham had been higher.
“There was a whole lot of good defending and energy, and I believed that may have given us the win. We might have received it with the prospect for Fabio Carvalho after which we misplaced.
“Once we have a look at the sport again, and we’re extra cool-headed, we’ll in all probability be very proud of the defensive normal. I believed there have been unbelievable blocks, and restoration runs and all that we did nicely. On the ball, we didn’t do sufficient.”