Fulham vs. Man City live score: Premier League result, updates, highlights, stats as Haaland fires Guardiola's men ahead

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CRAVEN COTTAGE, LONDON — Manchester City can apply some pressure to Arsenal in the Premier League title race, but only if they put poor recent away form behind them at Fulham.

Pep Guardiola's side needed an injury-time winner from Phil Foden to see off struggling Leeds United at the weekend, and Arsenal's 1-1 draw at Chelsea means they are five points behind the Gunners, who host Brentford on Wednesday.

However, City have lost their past two away matches at Newcastle United and Aston Villa and have only won once on the road in the Premier League since their 4-0 triumph at Wolves on the opening weekend.

Fulham won 2-1 at Tottenham at the weekend. The Cottagers have lost the past seven editions of this fixture on home turf and last beat City in west London in 2005.

Fulham vs. Man City live score

Venue: Craven Cottage, London
Referee: Craig Pawson

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Confirmed lineups:

Fulham (4-2-3-1, right to left): Leno (GK) — Tete, Andersen, Bassey, Sessegnon — Berge, Lucic — Wilson, Smith Rowe, Iwobi — Jimenez

Man City (4-3-3, right to left): Donnarumma (GK) — Nunes, Dias, Gvardiol, O'Reilly — Bernardo, Nico, Reijnders — Foden, Haaland, Doku

Fulham vs. Man City live updates, highlights, and commentary

21 mins: End to end Barclays! Reijnders sends Haaland away with a lovely ball over the top. Bassey, who was culpable on the goal, steals into take the ball from between Haaland and Doku. His Nigeria teammate Iwobi fires into the box to no avail.

17 mins: GOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLL!!!! Erling Haaland!!!!

No mistake this time from the big man. Doku with an incisive low cross, which Reijnders dummies smartly. That leaves Haaland to clatters a finish beyond Leno before he has time to smell it.

15 mins: Nice move from City, featuring Nunes driving into midfield from right-back. His fellow full-back O'Reilly gets into the box but takes too many touches.

14 mins: The hosts have settled now. Home fans are calling for Iwobi to shoot, which would be bold from 30 yards. Then he chips a pass stright through to Donnarumma. Might as well have shot.

11 minsb:  The free-kick is passed straight to Doku, who tries to break away but takes an awful touch and then brings down Wilson trying to remedy the situation. Well done, everyone.

10 mins: Foden carelessly coughs up possession and Nico brings down Jimenez with a lumbering challenge about 40 yards from goal.

9 mins: Fulham with their first attack of note. Jimenez releases Wilson, who has room to tear down the right. His ball into the box finds Smith Rowe and ricochets off Dias for a corner. Nunes heads that away at the near post.

6 mins: Haaland hits the post!  City carve through Fulham, with Silva and Nunes setting Foden on his way. He tees up Haaland and you'd put your mortgage on him scoring that. Instead, his slotted finish hits the inside of the left post and bounces to safety.

4 mins: Not to say nothing of note has happened so far, but the all-white vs. All-black kit combination here looks very nice.

Kickoff: 1st Half

City get us underway

4 mins before kickoff: Here come the teams. Lots of pyro. Which is nice, because it's not particularly warm

No pyro, no party. Pic.twitter.com/GGD64IMSKs

— Dom Farrell (@DomFarrell1986) December 2, 2025

15 mins before kickoff: The players heading off after their warmups, when the rain has been coming down. Feels like a night for zipping some passes about at probably the Premier League's most picturesque grounds.

40 mins before kickoff: After going nuclear for the first few months of the season, Erling Haaland is scoreless in his past three outings. The big Norwegian drew blanks in City's Premier League games against Newcastle and Leeds and was unable to turnaround the 2-0 Champions League defeat to Bayer Leverkusen when he came off the bench. Phil Foden stepped up with a brilliant brace at the weekend, although further help would be handy. Tijjani Reijnders has a knack of timing runs from midfield into the box both those have not yielded a goal since the opening weekend of the season.

1 hour before kickoff: Sasa Lukic is in to add further heft to Fulham's central midfield alongside Sander Berge. Emile Smith Rowe gets a start in the attacking trident supporting centre-forward Raul Jimenez.

1 hr 15 mins before kickoff: So, Pep Guardiola has responded to City getting worse throughout the game against Leeds by naming the same XI four days later. You do you, Pep.

Your City side to take on Fulham! 👊

XI | Donnarumma, Nunes, Dias, Gvardiol, O’Reilly, Nico, Bernardo (C), Reijnders, Foden, Doku, Haaland

SUBS | Trafford, Stones, Ake, Marmoush, Cherki, Ait-Nouri, Savinho, Khusanov, Lewis

🤝 @etihad pic.twitter.com/psONQpKdcp

— Manchester City (@ManCity) December 2, 2025

1 hr 30 mins before kickoff: City will end up just two points behind Arsenal if they win in west London tonight, with the Gunners not in action until they host Brentford tomorrow. Anything less and there will be legitimate questions over whether a squad that has undergone a hasty refit over the past two transfer windows is really ready to mount a credible title challenge. During their golden period under Pep Guardiola, City would unfussily bank games like this and move onto the next one. The Catalan has never done anything but win at Craven Cottage.

However, City appear to have neither the capability or desire to control games as they once could. They claimed a sparkling 4-0 win at Wolves on the opening weekend of the season, but that now exists in the context of the Molineux outfit still been winless in the league with a couple of doors of the Advent calendar open. Since then, a grinding 1-0 win at Brentford is City's only Premier League success on the road and they have lost their past two at Aston Villa and Newcastle.

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Fulham vs. Man City kick off time

This Premier League match kicks off in London, UK at 7:30 p.m. Local time.

Here's how that time translates across some of the major territories:

Fulham vs. Man City lineups, team news

Fulham boss Marco Silva  has no new injury concerns.

Full-back Antonee Robinson  and striker Rodrigo Muniz  remain sidelined.

Sasa Lucic  returned from the bench at Tottenham and comes into central midfield, while Emile Smith Rowe starts in the attacking trio behind centre-forward Raul Jimenez.

Fulham starting XI (4-2-3-1, right to left): Leno (GK) — Tete, Andersen, Bassey, Sessegnon — Berge, Lucic — Wilson, Smith Rowe, Iwobi — Jimenez

Fulham subs: Lecomte (GK), Reed, Cairney, Cuenca, Kusi-Asare, Chukwueze, Castagne, Kevin, King

Rodri  remains out and, with Mateo Kovacic  a long-term absentee, Guardiola's options in terms of freshening up central midfield are limited.

The City boss has named the same XI that started against Leeds at the weekend.

Man City starting XI (4-3-3, right to left): Donnarumma (GK) — Nunes, Dias, Gvardiol, O'Reilly — Bernardo, Nico, Reijnders — Foden, Haaland, Doku

Man City subs: Trafford (GK), Stones, Ake, Marmoush, Cherki, Ait-Nouri, Savinho, Khusanov, Lewis

Fulham vs. Man City live stream, TV channel

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