Fofana Marks Home Debut With Two Goals For Burnley In 2-2 Draw With Fulham – News18

BURNLEY, England: Substitute David Datro Fofana marked his house debut with two targets as his stoppage-time equalizer earned Burnley a Premier League level in a 2-2 draw with Fulham on Saturday.

Fulham, with out an away victory because the opening day of the season, seemed to be cruising after targets from Joao Palhinha and Rodrigo Muniz noticed the Cottagers lead 2-0 inside 21 minutes.

But on-mortgage Chelsea striker Fofana, on as an alternative simply after the hour, received Fulham again into the sport with a 71st-minute header earlier than bundling within the leveler within the first minute of stoppage time — equaling in 20 minutes his variety of league targets for Union Berlin in 17 video games throughout a earlier mortgage this season.

Vincent Kompany’s crew stays seven factors adrift of security, however this ended a run of 19 Premier League video games wherein Burnley had misplaced after conceding first, and the temper inside Turf Moor improved dramatically after Fofana’s late intervention.

Kompany gave a debut to Lorenz Assignon, who arrived on mortgage from Rennes on deadline day, however the fitting again needlessly conceded a seventeenth-minute nook. The mistake was immediately punished as Andreas Pereira whipped the ball in and Palhinha turned it goalward, together with his header beating James Trafford with the assistance of a deflection off Sander Berge.

It received worse 4 minutes later when Antonee Robinson’s lengthy punt up subject become the right ball for Muniz to attain his first Premier League aim. The 22-12 months-outdated Brazilian was performed onside by Vitinho as he received goalside of Hjalmar Ekdal, operating at Trafford earlier than lifting the ball over the uncovered goalkeeper.

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