Ryan Sessegnon stars as Fulham score four goals in seven minutes; Brentford lose at Championship leaders Wolves

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Tom Doyle2 January 2018

Fulham scored four goals in seven minutes to beat 10-man Ipswich 4-1 in an epic fightback at Craven Cottage.

Fulham manager Slavisa Jokanovic gave a start to Aboubakar Kamara who came off the bench to score twice at Hull and he was again on target with a brace against Ipswich.

Fulham started well and Ryan Fredericks crossed low across the Ipswich goal after two minutes, but Kamara failed to connect to the delivery.

The home side were in the ascendancy, and Ipswich goalkeeper Bartosz Bialkowski had to get down low to save a tight-angled shot from Kamara with 12 minutes gone.

Ipswich offered little, and they were tested again when Oliver Norwood fired a free-kick from 25 yards just over the crossbar after 24 minutes.

With the rain at Craven Cottage resulting in a slick surface, the visitors had their first half-chance after 33 minutes when Martyn Waghorn collected a cross and turned, only to blast his effort well over the crossbar.

Fulham were forced into an early change 10 minutes before the break when Floyd Ayite limped off, to be replaced by Neeskens Kebano.

Kamara once again just failed to get onto a testing delivery into the box after Kebano created the chance.

Ipswich were forced into a substitution just before the break when Grant Ward was replaced by Freddie Sears.

The visitors took the lead totally against the run of play right on half-time when Joe Garner netted for the second game in a row after heading home a Waghorn free-kick.

Fulham came out in the second half on the front foot and were given an advantage when Jordan Spence was red-carded with 54 minutes gone after barging into Kamara off the ball.

The game was turned on its head in the most dramatic of fashions in less than 10 minutes with the hosts running rampant against the Ipswich defence.

With 21 minutes remaining a lucky miscue off Kebano fell into the path of Ryan Sessegnon who fired home from close range.

Three minutes later Kamara gave Fulham the lead after a deflection fell kindly to him in the box.

The turnaround was completed after 74 minutes when Sessegnon slotted home a cross into the box, before Kamara added a second with a solo run into the area two minutes later.

Wolves 3 Brentford 0

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Wolves opened up a 12-point lead at the top of the Sky Bet Championship table with a commanding 3-0 win against Brentford at Molineux.

Nuno Espirito Santo's men made it 10 wins from their last 12 games thanks to second-half goals from Ruben Neves, Barry Douglas and Diogo Jota.

Brentford, who had gone into the game on the back of three successive victories, were kept in contention by goalkeeper Daniel Bentley before Neves gave Wolves a deserved lead in the 57th minute with his third goal of the season.

Douglas, who had been on target in Wolves' 2-1 win at Bristol City on Saturday, doubled his side's advantage two minutes later before Jota added a third 10 minutes from time - his 11th of the campaign.

Rampant Wolves were inches away from making a flying start when they hit the woodwork after just two minutes.

Helder Costa made strides down the right wing and his cross was met by Leo Bonatini who rattled the foot of the post from six yards.

Neves then tested Bentley from 20 yards 60 seconds later as Wolves launched a determined search for an early breakthrough.

Brentford had another escape in the 12th minute when Douglas whipped in a corner and Jota's header was cleared off the line by Nico Yennaris.

Bentley came to Brentford's rescue again with a stunning stop to beat away a close-range drive from Matt Doherty and saved them again in the 24th minute when he first came out of his goal to deny Costa and then held on to the follow-up from Jota.

Brentford did briefly manage to give themselves some respite when Sergi Canos tried his luck from distance and Yoann Barbet saw his header deflected narrowly wide as half-time approached.

But it was Wolves who remained in the ascendancy and they were again denied by Bentley after 38 minutes, with the visiting goalkeeper spectacularly tipping away a first-time volley from Jota.

Bentley's heroics continued at the beginning of the second half when, barely 20 seconds after the re-start, he saved from Bonatini.

It only looked to be a matter of time before Wolves' pressure paid off, and it finally did when Jota was fouled by Ryan Woods and Bentley was left clutching fresh air when Neves free-kick flashed past him from 25 yards.

Having waited so long to make their pressure pay, Wolves quickly added a second when Douglas left fly from 16 yards after being teed-up by a cross from Ivan Cavaleiro.

Jota then gave the scoreline a more emphatic look when he scrambled the ball home from close range after Doherty had collected a corner from Cavaleiro.

Additional reporting by the Press Association.

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