Huddersfield 1 Fulham 0
Jokanovic Fulham reign going up in smoke as he subs his own substitute
JUST like Guy Fawkes, Slavisa Jokanovic lost the plot on Bonfire Night and could now see his Fulham prospects go up in smoke.
This shambles of a defeat as the west Londoners lost a sixth straight game will crank up the pressure on Jokanovic.
The Fulham boss looked like he didn’t know what he was doing as he replaced Luciano Vietto with Kevin Mcdonald at half-time, only to haul off the baffled Mcdonald 20 minutes later.
His side played nothing like a team which had £108million lavished on it during the summer, which was more than Manchester City and Manchester United spent.
They were clueless and are now rock bottom of the Premier League.
Timothy Fosu-mensah’s own goal means they have conceded 29 goals to give them the joint worst defence in Premier League history after 11 games.
If all that were not bad enough, three of their next five games are against Liverpool, Chelsea and United.
As dire as Fulham were, take nothing away from Huddersfield, who finally got the first league win they richly deserved to make David Wagner’s third anniversary in charge go with a bang.
They were way better than their costlier opponents in every department.
Skipper Christopher Schindler was immense and deserved the accolade of scoring their first strike in 659 minutes of action at the John Smith’s Stadium only for it to be credited as an own goal.
Huddersfield should have won by more and Philip Billing hit the bar with a 30-yard rocket after Jonathan Hogg won possession with a crunching tackle on Aleksandar Mitrovic.
Alex Pritchard then turned Andrefrank Zambo Anguissa to unleash a shot, which Sergio Rico did well to paw away.
Town scored from the resultant corner on 29 minutes when Fulham failed to clear Chris Lowe’s first delivery and the German had time to cross for Schindler to head home off Fosu-mensah – their first goal at home since April 14.
Fulham protested vainly that play should have been stopped for a head injury to Tom Cairney in the build-up.
But they could deny Huddersfield were well worth their lead and they nearly doubled it when Rico touched Hogg’s header over.
Jokanovic hooked Fosu-mensah and Vietto at half-time and threw on Cyrus Christie and Mcdonald.
Fulham marginally improved and Mitrovic headed a decent chance well wide. Andre Schurrle then had an effort disallowed for offside.