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For the first time in 33 Premier League games, Fulham marksman and ex-Wolves talisman Raul Jimenez – who prepares for an emotional reunion with his old employers this weekend – found the back of the net when the Cottagers faced Aston Villa two weeks ago, but the die had long been cast.
Before the Mexico international registered his first goal of the season, Antonee Robinson had turned the ball past Bernd Leno – his second own goal of the season – to propel Villa into the ascendancy, and further strikes from John McGinn and Ollie Watkins preceded Jimenez’s consolation 20 minutes from the end.
Many a visiting team have tried and failed to knock down the walls of the Lions’ impenetrable Villa Park fortress in 2023, so defeat to Unai Emery‘s Champions League chasers was certainly forgivable, but an unsightly sequence of three defeats and a draw from their last four Premier League games is less so.
The wildly inconsistent Cottagers are sleepwalking towards a perilous position in the table, as they occupy 15th place with 12 points to their name – albeit while sitting comfortably seven clear of Sheffield United in 18th spot – and Fulham now return to a ground where two of their three league wins have come this season.
The Cottagers have only managed a paltry 10 goals in the first 12 weeks of the season too – to put that statistic into wider context, ex-striker Aleksandar Mitrovic already had nine at the same stage last term – although they have only lost back-to-back home games once since the start of the 2022-23 campaign.
