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Fulham 0-2 Burnley: Wilson Odobert and Sander Berge secure third Premier League win for Clarets


Burnley's players celebrate after Wilson Odobert's opening goal for the Clarets against Fulham
Wilson Odobert scores his third Premier League goal for Burnley at Craven Cottage

Wilson Odobert’s stunning goal helped Burnley climb off the bottom of the table as victory at Fulham secured their third Premier League win of the season.

French winger Odobert curled the ball home in style two minutes into the second half to put the Clarets ahead.

Sander Berge then arrowed in a second for Vincent Kompany’s side with a low strike into the corner of the net.

Fulham were left to rue missed chances as Burnley goalkeeper James Trafford kept the home side at bay.

The match was refereed by Rebecca Welch, who became the first woman to take charge of a Premier League game.

Burnley’s Trafford was comfortably the busier of the two goalkeepers throughout, and he made two vital saves in the first half with the scoreline goalless.

The England Under-21 international did well to keep out Harry Wilson’s effort at the near post after a jinking run and pushed a deflected Alex Iwobi shot wide of the post.

A scramble in the box shortly before half-time saw also Iwobi shoot at goal but Zeki Amdouni managed to block.

Burnley began the second half on the front foot and their early effort was rewarded with a fine opening goal.

Odobert exchanged a neat one-two with Lyle Foster and then opened up his body to spectacularly curl the ball beyond the diving Bernd Leno.

From there Burnley had a spring in their step and Norway midfielder Berge, allowed freedom by a Fulham defense in retreat, fired in a second from the edge of the box.

Fulham piled on the pressure but could not find a way past Trafford, who saved well from Timothy Castagne late on.

The result helped Burnley, bottom at kick-off, leapfrog Sheffield United up to 19th place – four points adrift of safety, as Fulham slipped down to 12th.

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Fulham

  1. Squad number17Player nameLeo

  2. Squad number21Player nameCastagne

  3. Squad number4Player nameTosin

  4. Squad number3Player nameBassey

  5. Squad number33Player nameRobinson

  6. Squad number26Player nameJoão Palhinha

  7. Squad number10Player nameCairney

  8. Squad number8Player nameWilson

  9. Squad number18Player nameAndreas Pereira

  10. Squad number22Player nameIwobi

  11. Squad number19Player nameRodrigo Muniz

  1. Squad number6Player nameReed

  2. Squad number12Player nameBallo-Touré

  3. Squad number14Player nameDe Cordova-Reid

  4. Squad number30Player nameCarlos Vinicius

Burnley

  1. Squad number1Player nameTrafford

  2. Squad number22Player nameVitinho

  3. Squad number2Player nameO’Shea

  4. Squad number5Player nameBeyer

  5. Squad number3Player nameTaylor

  6. Squad number34Player nameBruun Larsen

  7. Squad number16Player nameBank

  8. Squad number8Player nameBrownhill

  9. Squad number47Player nameOdobert

  10. Squad number17Player nameFoster

  11. Squad number25Player nameAmdouni

  1. Squad number9Player nameRodriguez

  2. Squad number14Player nameRoberts

  3. Squad number15Player nameRedmond

  4. Squad number31Player nameTreasure

  5. Squad number44Player nameDelcroix



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