Tyrick Mitchell’s double saw Crystal Palace come from behind twice to win 3-2 at Fulham as Pierre Sage recorded his first victory in charge of the Eagles.<\/p>\n
The pressure was on Sage and his Fulham counterpart Alvaro Arbeloa heading into this London derby at Craven Cottage after defeats in each of their first two Premier League games.<\/p>\n
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\n <\/div>\n Cesar Palacios celebrates after scoring Fulham’s second goal against Crystal Palace
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However, it was the Frenchman who was all smiles at the full-time whistle as he punched the air in front of jubilant Palace fans in the away end after this unlikely three points.<\/p>\n
In stark contrast, however, Arbeola will be left scratching his head at just how his side lost this game having led at the break and finishing with an impressive xG of 3.13, with youngster Josh King outstanding once again.<\/p>\n
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\n <\/div>\n Fulham’s Josh King celebrates with team-mates after his goal against Crystal Palace
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But the defeat means the Cottagers have now lost their opening three matches of a top-flight campaign for just the third time, worryingly being relegated on both previous occasions in 1951\/52 and 2020\/21.<\/p>\n
The key moments from Craven Cottage<\/h3>\n
11: GOAL!<\/strong> King makes the early breakthrough after Oscar Bobb’s run to the byline and Jaydee Canvot’s crucial deflection that left Dean Henderson helpless.<\/p>\n 14: GOAL RULED OUT<\/strong>! Daichi Kamada thinks he has immediately levelled matters after touching home Yeremy Pino’s cross from the left, only for a tight VAR call to go against the Japan midfielder.<\/p>\n 33: SAVE! <\/strong>Henderson shows impressive near-post reactions to keep out Timothy <\/em>Castagne’s close-range effort in front of England boss Thomas Tuchel.<\/p>\n 35: GOAL!<\/strong> Eddie Nketiah feeds Mitchell in space down the left and the full back blasts a powerful drive past Leno at his near post.<\/p>\n 42: GOAL!<\/strong> Palacios restores the hosts’ lead just before half-time after great work down the left from King to dummy Richards, with the midfielder in the right place to smash home after Henderson had denied Gonzalo Garcia.<\/p>\n 54: GOAL!<\/strong> Mitchell nets his second of the game, although only after Garcia somehow failed to clear his weak effort.<\/p>\n 77: GOAL! <\/strong>Chilwell completes the comeback after Leno appeared to bring down Khalaili, only for the sub to stroke home into the empty net.<\/p>\n Sky Sports’ Rich Morgan:<\/em><\/p>\n Understandably, there were contrasting full-time emotions between the two newly appointed head coaches following Crystal Palace’s come-from-behind victory at Fulham.<\/p>\n Both Alvaro Arbeola and Pierre Sage went into Saturday’s London derby already under pressure having lost their opening two Premier League games, although the Spaniard had managed a win in the Carabao Cup.<\/p>\n And for large parts of the contest at Craven Cottage, it appeared as though the Fulham boss would be the one with the pressure-relieving three points to his name, until the visitors’ second-half turnaround.<\/p>\n And so it was Sage speaking about the much-needed “petrol” the 3-2 win had given his players in his post-match press conference, as the Eagles avoided a third straight league defeat to kick off the campaign for the first time since 2017\/18.<\/p>\n In contrast, the Cottagers boss was left to rue a series of first-half missed openings that cost his team the chance to also avoid starting the season with a trio of top-flight reverses for the only the third time in the club’s history.<\/p>\n Ominously, though, on the previous two occasions it happened in 1951\/52 and 2020\/21, they were relegated.<\/p>\n Fulham<\/strong> boss Alvaro Arbeloa<\/strong>:<\/em><\/p>\n “Three games, three losses, so it’s difficult, and now you are thinking that we have to go to Anfield, Manchester United is coming to Craven Cottage, so you can see two very difficult games.<\/p>\n “Also in the Carabao Cup we have to go face West Ham United, so not easy, but we knew this month it was going to be a very tough month.<\/p>\n “But I told my players this month will not define our entire season. I think they are working so hard, they are giving everything they have, and with this mentality, with this character, I am sure that win will come.”<\/p>\n Palace<\/strong> boss Pierre Sage<\/strong>:<\/em><\/p>\n “I have to accept the story of today because that was the context of the game,” he said when asked about the openness of the match.<\/p>\n “But I have to change things and to improve the way of defending with the players, because we were too open in the first half and not very well-coordinated.<\/p>\n “That’s why they scored the second goal especially, but they had a lot of opportunities, and we took the first goal after a mistake in the build-up and we have to improve that too.<\/p>\n “That’s why today the lesson is free, because we won, but we are aware of the conditions of this victory.”<\/p>\n Tyrick Mitchell’s double saw Crystal Palace come from behind twice to win 3-2 at Fulham…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/skysports-tyrick-mitchell-palace_7341982.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportbulletin.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Josh](\"https:\/\/e0.365dm.com\/26\/09\/768x432\/skysports-fulham-king_7341929.jpg?20260905152008\")
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\n Josh King celebrates after opening the scoring for Fulham at Craven Cottage
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\n Tyrick Mitchell celebrates scoring Palace’s opener
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\n <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nSage emerges on top in battle of under-pressure coaches<\/h3>\n
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