Fulham fought from a goal down to secure a 1-1 draw at home to Wolves on Friday night.

Marco Silva’s men recovered from an extremely poor first half to fight back and take a point at Craven Cottage, taking them to 39 for the season. Julen Lopetegui’s side remain 15th.

Possession was controlled by Wolves in the opening stages, and they carved out the first chance of the night. Nelson Semedo managed to pirouette his way through midfield and release Matheus Nunes, whose ball right across the face of goal was cleared just in time by Tim Ream.

More good work from Semedo saw him tee up Pablo Sarabia soon after, but his deflected effort went straight down the throat of Bernd Leno.

But Wolves eventually took a 23rd minute lead through the Spaniard. Raul Jimenez headed back a cross from Nunes for Sarabia, whose bouncing half-volley found the bottom corner.

After a tame opening 37 minutes, Fulham finally managed to create an opportunity of note, with Carlos Vinicius meeting a cross from Bobby De Cordova-Reid, bringing a fine save out of Jose Sa.

A low shot from Kenny Tete was dragged wide towards the end of a rather testing first half for the hosts.

On the other side of half-time, Jimenez headed just wide from a deep Sarabia cross as Wolves went in search of a second goal.

But against the run of play, substitute Manor Solomon found an equaliser for the hosts, cutting in from the left and picking out the far corner with a curling effort after 64 minutes.

Deep into eight minutes of added time, Vinicius rose high to meet a Kenny Tete cross, heading downwards towards the bottom left corner but being thwarted by Sa one last time.

GK: Bernd Leno (5); RB: Kenny Tete (6), CB: Issa Diop (6), CB: Tim Ream (8), LB: Antonee Robinson (7); CM: Harrison Reed (5), CM: Joao Palhinha (6); RM: Bobby De Cordova-Reid (4), AM: Andreas Pereira (4), LM: Willian (5); CF: Carlos Vinicius (5)

SUBS: Manor Solomon (8), Sasa Lukic (7), Harry Wilson (N/A)

GK: Jose Sa (7); RB: Nelson Semedo (7), CB: Craig Dawson (7), CB: Max Kilman (7), LB: Hugo Bueno (7); CM: Ruben Neves (6), CM: Mario Lemina (6), CM: Matheus Nunes (6); RW: Pablo Sarabia (8), CF: Raul Jimenez (7), LW: Matheus Cunha (6)

SUBS: Adama Traore (5), Joao Moutinho (N/A), Daniel Podence (N/A), Diego Costa (N/A)

Player of the Match – Tim Ream

Credit: 90min.com

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