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90+2 min Maybe that means Leno will be Player of the Match, ahead of his opposuite number, Kelleher. Brentford had another chance from the resulting corner as Collins put a header just wide.
90+1 min SAVE! Ouattara whips in a left-foot shot and Leno, bang in front of him, somehow gets a strong left paw to it.
90 min There will be six added minutes.
88 min Chance! Long throw from Kayode, crisp header from Lewis-Potter – and it’s blocked by his own team-mate, Thiago.
86 min It’s end-to-end stuiff now, in a modest way. Thiago leads the charge onto a through ball, but Leno gets there before him and calmly finds a team-mate. Fulham break and in comes a cross, which Kelleher claims. The Player of the Match award may have to be given, jointly, to the two keepers.
84 min It’s another fine delivery from Jensen, curling in to wards the top bin. Leno tips it over the bar and the resulting corner is … a non-event.
82 min Lewis-Potter, who’s been bright, wins a free kick on the left wing. The sun is back out.
80 min This corner is seen off by a solid punch from Leno. Marco Silva decides to play his last two cards, sending on Robinson for Sessegnon, as advertised, and Bobb for Cairney, which is an attacking move.
Keith Andrews has yet to make a single substitution. Saving them for added time, I presume.
79 min Brentford win their eighth corner of the match. Does anyone remember when they were good at set pieces?
77 min Thiago finds himself on the edge of the box, with time on his side – so much time that he can’t decide what to do and ends up trying a poked through ball, which is blocked. Fulham race up the other end and Wilson, timing his run well from the right wing, can only square the ball as he tries to find the far corner.
75 min Corner to Brentford. Traffic jam around Leno. Good ball in from Jensen, but the back-header from Collins goes wide – and so many of his team-mates were holding their opponents that it might have ben chalked off anyway.
73 min Another attack, from Fulham this time; another mediocre final ball.
70 min Kayode revs up for another long throw. Fulham get it clear, as comfortably as ever. The commentators go back to talking about the roads that go past the ground.
69 min Brentford come again, Yarmoliuk curls in a cross and Leno does well to grab it.
69 min Free kick to Brentford. Jensen sends in a good curling ball, and Collins mysteriously fails to connect.
67 min Fulham subs: Jimenez for Muniz, who was barely there, and King for Smith Rowe, who was busy. No Robinson yet, but two out of three ain’t bad.
66 min Chance! Shade heads in from the left and Damsgaard volleys just wide. Brentford are getting closer..
65 min A glimmer for Fulham as Sessegnon again ghosts into the box, but (again) he can’t do anything when he gets there. It may be time for Antonee Robinson. And Raul Jimenez. And Josh King.
64 min A goal kick is taken by Leno. The good news is that it’s not taken short. The bad news is that it goes straight to the other goalie, Kelleher.
61 min As the hour-glass flips over, we’re still waiting for a killer cross, or a half-decent corner.
59 min Brentford have been more joined-up since half-time. Now they have five men in the box .. but the cross doesn’t get near them. This game could do with a sub or two.
57 min And here’s the ninth, as Ouattara wins one for Brentford. It doesn’t clear the first defender… But Brentford come again, Lewis-Potter on one wing finds Ouattara on the other, and his shot is ON TARGET! It’s well struck, verging on rasping, but straight at Leno.
55 min That was the eighth corner of the match and the eighth to lead nowhere.
52 min Sessegnon wins a corner for Fulham with a cutback.
52 min A camera picks up Jordan Henderson, watching from the stand and wearing several shades of brown. Brentford could do with his drive.
50 min Fulham make their way into the box, patient as ever. Lukic, in the inside-left channel. can smell the glory but can’t keep his shot down.
48 min As Fulham break down the left, two Brentford players collide and one of them, Collins, ends up with a sore head, so Paul Tierney has to stop the game. Collins gets up wincing but able to continue.
47 min Brentford starts the half with a flurry of back passes. Kelleher is in such a tight corner that he has to try a Cruyff turn, which goes rather well.
46 min The sun has gone in, which at least makes Fulham, in their lime green, more visible.
No subs at half-time. But one stat: this is the ninth away game on the trot in which Fulham have failed to score in the first half.
“A draw at half-time is quite [something inaudible],” says Owen Hargreaves. It sounded like “level”, but that might have been a bit circular. Maybe he meant “fair”.
“I’ve never sent you an email,” says Warwick in Hong Kong, “so why not! Andrew K [12:28] couldn’t be more wrong – you can see the passion in both teams and both know the boost that European football could give them. More so, if anything, from Fulham as we know that 3 points at the bus stop is desperately needed if we are to have any chance of Europe. COYW!”
HALF-TIME! Brentford 0-0 Fulham
It’s been frustrating but far from dull. Fulham have been better with the ball, more patient, but Brentford have had their moments. Both sides need to work on their marksmanship: Brentford have had one shot on target out of five, and that’s one more than Fulham (out of six). All to play for!
45+2 min Chance! From the corner, to Lewis-Potter, who executes a textbook drag-back, only to lift his shot over the bar.
45+1 min The first of a meagre two added minutes. Thiago gets away on the counter and plays in Damsgaard, who wins a corner.
43 min Off goes Iwobi, to be replaced by Samuel Chukwueze. Marco Silva will be gutted but also glad that he packed the bench with attackers.
42 min A blow for Fulham: Iwobi has gone down off the ball and it looks like a hamstring injury, which could end his season. What a shame.
39 min Chance! Brentford win a free kick and then a corner. Jensen whips it in and Schade, at the near post, gets a good flick … but it’s blocked.
37 min Fulham are winning the battle in midfield, as they often did before Christmas, because Iwobi can drift in from the left to make a diamond. But Brentford are threatening with their long balls, pumped up towards the power of Thiago and the pace of Ouattara.
