Extended HLs: Brentford v. Fulham Matchweek 33
Watch full-match highlights from Fulham's showdown with west London rivals Brentford at the Gtech in Matchweek 33.
Video Transcript
And welcome along to the Gtech Community Stadium right beside Kew Bridge and the M4 motorway in West London.
It's the home of Brentford and just four miles away from today's visitors, Fulham.
Key game here in the race for Europe.
Brentford are seventh, Fulham are 12th, but only three points behind, and this is a big, big game for both of these clubs.
A game of two local rivals on the pitch, but Chelsea always looming.
Just interested to see how Brentford go about it this afternoon.
The ball's in their court, you feel.
Well, they're claiming a corner straight away there.
Igor Thiago.
Here's Damsgaard.
Hustled out of it though by Lukic, who's been brought into the side today.
Here's Iwobi.
It's a decent ball through that, and nearly.
Lukic had made a run from deep midfield and was only a yard or two from getting on the end of that.
That was a really clever play, and this is what Iwobi brings from out wide.
It's just that little touch off Yoonez.
It's the timing of the runs, the movement.
Vitara goes short to Jensen.
That's a good ball in.
And it was not well defended by Fulham.
Thiago is hunting yet another for his tally.
That's a chance for him.
Looking at Carney in front of him, and Muniz get caught up between themselves, nine and 10.
Almost mark each other.
That was in the recent goalless draw at Forest.
Smith-Rowe's done well there though, and here's Harry Wilson looking to measure one.
He is fit if necessary to come into the side.
Jensen.
And Kayode won't be able to reach that.
Kayode who went on a great solo run last week to set up the second goal against Everton.
This is the opportunity for Thiago, and you see Cassania just got back inside.
He's normally- Van den Berg.
Damsgaard with the instinctive ball to Atara.
It's a good one.
Promising situation here.
Vitara got his effort away, but it wasn't really a problem for Ben Leno.
Hold his weaker foot, and it was a weaker shot.
Sessegnon.
Kelleher to stretch.
Bit of space here.
Sessegnon!
Half chance, maybe more than that.
Couldn't find the target.
Well, it was really well orchestrated.
Eventually.
Looking at the touch from Kayode, just getting in there to get the block in.
Sessegnon's had a couple of openings in there.
Just- Among the prime candidates to try to win the header here.
It was well defended by Andersen.
Oh!
And nearly for Lewis-Potter, who tried cleverly to chip that home and could not find the target.
With the cross.
And that was better.
Much, much better.
Vitara got hold of that one.
First strike in anger in the game.
It's taken nearly an hour.
You know exactly what he wants to do.
I'm not sure why Sessegnon can't get a little bit tighter.
The left collect switches.
Oh, and very nearly.
Damsgaard.
Just for a moment, you wondered where this was going to end up.
It's a clever idea from Damsgaard.
It's really good from Sharda.
He knows he can't power it with his left foot, so just help it and try and guide it, but it's off his shin almost, off the ankle rather than the foot.
Flick towards the back post.
Won't quite happen, will it?
It's the third time, by my count, that Collins has got free.
Just drag everybody in, and then he drifts round the six-yard box.
He's a pretty big guy.
He's pretty hard to miss.
I'm not sure why Fulham aren't picking him up.
Like fellow pros.
Lukic.
Wilson's made this good run here.
Oh, and couldn't finish it on his slightly weaker right foot.
And he was on side.
Wonderful vision and ball.
It just comes off the complete wrong part of his foot.
He's just trying to feel it in, and this is what the Brentford fans are upset about.
That's dangerous.
That is a lunge.
Benatia, part of the Brentford staff on the bench, got a yellow card amid all the kerfuffle.
Meanwhile, Daniel Vitara, extremely clear-cut.
Out towards that back post, and it needed that little palm around the corner from Ben Leno.
Experienced goalkeeping.
It's very easy to get dragged underneath that ball and let it drift all the way in.
Just have to stand and watch and ignore the players in front of you.
Just for a moment there.
Looked like that might be something.
King has played the slide here for Chukwueze.
And his cross to the back post is not accurate enough.
It's, blocking it inadvertently.
Jimenez with the long ball bounced towards Josh King.
But Kayode made sure he didn't get on the end of it.
Anderson lost possession in a key area.
Lewis-Potter can cut that back, and there!
Oh, what a save that is.
Brilliant save.
Wataru's effort turned away by Leno, and that could be a point saver.
That's a moment of brilliance from Bernd Leno.
It's the moment of the game.
Did really well to win it back.
Finds his man in the box, and it's a clean contact.
He just gets turned and set as he's moving.
It's just a hand up, and you hope.
You're hoping it hits it.
It's a wonderful reaction.
It's a corner kick.
Oh, and there's another opportunity for Collins, who can't get the header on target, having won the ball right in front of goal.
Well, it's the two best moments for Brentford in the game.
In the dying moments.
He gets up just a fraction too early maybe.
Could be one of the final acts of the drama.
Wilson to play it in there, and then Bobb couldn't keep the volley down.
Getting on for four of those already.
That's the Lewis-Potter header which hit, you're quite right, Igor Thiago on its way, and I think that was on its way in.
Yeah.
Away by Lewis-Potter, and the referee blows for time.
A shake of the head from Marco Silva as Fulham's hopes of qualifying for a European spot diminish a little bit with that draw.
They're just out of form at the wrong time.
Fulham, just one win now in their last five.
That's the top eight.
Brentford pick up a point to go level on points with Chelsea, but of course now Chelsea have a game in hand.
That comes later today.
It's at home against Manchester United, so there is definitely still hope for Brentford and a place in the Champions League because they are still just four points off the top five.
Brentford's highest-ever position was ninth in the Premier League.
