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Fulham v Crystal Palace: Premier League – live

December 8, 2025

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Fulham v Crystal Palace: Premier League – live

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45+2 min “Is it a purple patch?” asks Matt Dony. “Or is Wilson just becoming the natural successor to Gareth Bale? (Ok, yes, I know the answer. But indulge me. I’m not having a tremendous few weeks in sporting terms…).”

45 min Two minutes of added time.

44 min That goal was Wilson’s sixth in seven games for club and country, I think.

42 min I’m still reeling from the audacity and brilliance of that Harry Wilson goal. Peak Messi couldn’t have done it better.

41 min “Could not agree more re: Wharton,” says Felix Wood. “His entire game seems to simply be passing it quickly to players in better positions. Sounds simple. It isn’t. I was hoping that England’s future was him and Mainoo together in centre mid, but I think that’s a discussion for another MBM. For this one though, I think Wharton’s development has been immeasurable helped by playing alongside the similarly understated and criminally underrated Will Hughes.”

What a goal! Fulham probed patiently, as always, until Iwobi fed a sharp pass into Wilson on the edge of the D. He slipped it round the corner to Jimenez, who guided a first-time pass back towards Wilson on the edge of the area.

Wilson let the ball run across his body and flicked an instant shot with the outside of the left foot that swerved away from Henderson and into the far corner. That’s quite outrageous. The touch round the corner was brilliant, the finish even better.

GOAL! Fulham 1-1 Crystal Palace (Wilson 38)

Harry Wilson extends his purple patch with a majestic equaliser!

36 min As the half has developed, Palace have been the more dangerous team. They’re having less of the ball but that has never bothered them.

34 min: Big chance for Clyne! Mitchell’s cross from the left beats everyone at the near post and bounces towards his fellow wing-back Clyne on the edge of the area. He misses his kick completely but gets a second chance when the ball lands kindly at his feet. His second attempt is well struck but blocked by Iwobi (I think).

31 min: Palace penalty appeal Clyne is caught right on the edge of the area, maybe just inside, by Andersen. The referee gives nothing and Team VAR decide not to get involved. Had a penalty been given on the field, I doubt it would have been overturned.

29 min Chukwueze’s low cross from the left pinballs around the Palace area. Eventually it reaches Iwobi, whose chest-volley from 15 yards is straight at Henderson.

28 min Fulham are passing the ball with their usual neatness and purpose, but Palace are so well organised defensively and at the moment Fulham are struggling to break them down.

25 min Adam Wharton doesn’t turn 22 until February. Given the maturity of his play, in such a pivotal position, the mind boggles at how good he could be by the age of 30.

24 min: Brilliant save by Henderson!

Berge’s ball infield is taken beautifully in his stride by Smith Rowe, who moves into the area and hits a rising drive with his left foot. Henderson reacts superbly, throwing out his right hand to tip the ball over the bar.

21 min Adam Wharton could play for any football team in the world. He’s a joy to watch.

Wharton started the move by waving an insouciant outside-of-the-foot pass to Mitchell on the left wing. He found Guehi, who pushed the ball back infield to Wharton. He arrowed a sharp pass into the area, intended I think for Kamada. It didn’t reach him because Nketiah controlled the ball on the run, wrongfooting Andersen in the process, and slapped it past Leno. Fine goal.

GOAL! Fulham 0-1 Crystal Palace (Nketiah 20)

A clinical finish from Eddie Nketiah puts Crystal Palace in front!

Crystal Palace’s Eddie Nketiah (second left) scores his side’s first goal. Photograph: John Walton/PA

19 min So, does anyone know when the Ashes gets under way?

17 min Pino slips a neat first-time pass down the side to Mateta, who shoots straight at Leno from the edge of the area. Tough chance but a nice bit of play from Pino, who looks a bargain at £26m.

16 min It’s an even, open game, with possession roughly 55:45 in Fulham’s favour.

12 min Wharton’s corner is headed out towards Pino on the Palace left. He knocks the bouncing ball past Jimenez, who think it’s still there to be won. Wrong! Instead of clearing the ball, he boots Pino straight in the face. VAR are happy that it was accidental, and they’re right, but it was still a fair old whack.

12 min Wharton, with eyes in the side of his head, plays a quality disguised pass out to the right wing-back Clyne, who wins Palace’s first corner.

11 min Another Iwobi corner leads to a bit of a scramble before Palace force the ball clear. Fulham are turning up the metaphorical heat.

9 min: Good effort by Smith Rowe Iwobi, on the left, curls a wicked inswinging corner that brushes a Palace head and flies over the bar for another corner.

This time it’s on the right. Iwobi clips it deliberately towards Smith Rowe, unmarked 10 yards out at the near post. He watches the bounce and twists his body to crack a shot that hits Guehi and flies over the bar. Lovely effort though, a variation on the old Anderton/Sheringham corner.

5 min Iwobi’s shot from 20 yards deflects wide, though it wouldn’t have counted because some fella was offside in the build-up, Wilson I think.

4 min Nothing to report. Not a single thing.

1 min And they’re off. Fulham are kicking from left to right as we watch.

The players stroll onto the field on a largely disgusting afternoon in west London: cold, wet, windy. Apart from that, it’s thong weather.

A win would lift Palace to fourth in the Premier League table, which looks like this as of 4.21pm on 7 December 2025.

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Ed Aarons

It should have been a night for Crystal Palace supporters to savour. About 1,500 officially made the trip to Strasbourg for their second away match of the Conference League group stage last week, although plenty more had gathered in the pretty Alsatian city famous for its expansive Christmas market.

Yet while most were enjoying being part of Palace’s first European campaign after May’s FA Cup win, “a tiny minority” – as the club’s statement the following day described them – had different ideas. Footage of bottles and chairs being thrown as two rival groups of supporters of the same club clashed before the game in one of the city’s squares went viral on X. “Palace fans fighting each other in Strasbourg,” read the message, not surprisingly sparking widespread confusion.

The Guardian understands it was the culmination of a long-running feud between the Holmesdale Fanatics (HF) – an ultras group known for their vocal support and homemade tifos – and a collection of Palace fans said to have become increasingly antagonistic towards them. They are believed to be the group heard singing pro-Tommy Robinson songs and spotted with “Stop the boats” flags during Palace’s trips to Lublin to play Dynamo Kyiv in October and Fredrikstad for a playoff a month earlier. The group are thought to be more loosely organised than the HF and come from several different areas, including the Croydon suburb of New Addington, Crawley and Kent.

Team news

Both managers make two changes from their midweek games. Marco Silva brings in Timothy Castagne and Samuel Chukwueze for Ryan Sessegnon and Sasa Lukic.

Palace are without bullet train Daniel Munoz, who scored the winner at Burnley in midweek, due to a minor knee injury. Nathaniel Clyne replaces him and Eddie Nketiah comes in for Jefferson Lerma. In both cases that means a slight reshuffle, with Alex Iwobi and Daichi Kamada moving into deeper positions.

Fulham (4-2-3-1) Leno; Tete, Andersen, Bassey, Castagne; Berge, Iwobi; Wilson, Smith Rowe, Chukwueze; Jimenez.

Subs: Lecomte, Cairney, Traore, Cuenca, Kusi-Asare, Lukic, Kevin, King, Diop.

Crystal Palace (3-4-2-1) Henderson; Richards, Lacroix, Guehi; Clyne,
Wharton, Kamada, Mitchell; Nketiah, Pino; Mateta.

Subs: Matthews, Benitez, Lerma, Uche, Hughes, Esse, Canvot, Sosa, Devenny.

Referee Sam Barrott.