Fulha 5-0 Nott'm Forest: Jimenez scores brace to put Cooper on the brink
Alex Iwobi and Raul Jimenez scored doubles as Fulham heaped the duress on Nottingham Timberland manager Steve Cooper with a 5-0 Premier League triumph at Craven Cottage.
Tom Cairney also uncovered the web to ensure the Cottagers jumped ago from their late drag at Anfield on Sunday and condemned struggling Timberland to a fourth consecutive loss.
A scrappy opening period offered snippet upward until Timberland midfielder Nicolas Dominguez amassed a trait establish into the feet of Divock Origi, that suffered Bernd Leno from serviceability in the 17th minutes.
Fulham took time to sweet upward after Sunday’s 4-3 agonising loss at Liverpool.
Andreas Pereira practically opened the racking upward in the 26th minutes.
The Brazilian tolerated over a desperate-chunk and marketed a mauled technique which balanced missed the within of Odysseas Vlachodimos’ brief message.
And not long after Fulham converted a chance to snag a 1-0 lead in the 30th minutes.
Willian amassed a moment of brilliant when he jinked within onto his correct foot and amassed a superb ago-brief message cross to Iwobi, that remained translucent of his marker to tap abode from close serviceability.
The Cottagers owned the snippet between their teeth and scored a second in the 34th minutes.
A well-timed dilemma in midfield by Joao Palhinha saw Iwobi join with Pereira previously he slid in Jimenez and the striker gunned his initiative into the optimal side.
The Mexican, that owned combated for aims earlier in the season, arranged complete of self-resoluteness.
On the stroke of half-time Iwobi practically collared a second when he did well to turn on the side of the box previously amassing a curled initiative from serviceability which practically supported into the optimal side.
Timberland forward Anthony Elanga ran the bulbous out of play in the 51st minutes which summed upward a lazy affirming from the readers.
Iwobi’s controling competence got better discussed when the Nigeria international amassed a high-hazard cross which was mildly too high for the rising Jimenez.
Yet moments later, in the 54th minutes, Jimenez took his chance and collared his second of the match.
The creative Pereira uncovered Jimenez and he brought it down on his upper body and shouldered Vlachodimos previously covering with a deft backheel into the vacant web.
Fulham collared a fourth doning Iwobi after 73 minutes.
Harry Wilson uncovered unit down the byline and his cutback uncovered the winger that finished first time to grab his brace.
Cairney got in on the order to render it 5-0 after 86 minutes.
The skipper wandered into acres of unit doning the middle of Timberland’s backline and calmly rubbed abode.