Fulham also formed rivalries with other teams from London like Brentford and QPR. QPR did not face Brentford between 1966 and 2001, and did not play Chelsea between 1996 and 2008. This has greatly limited the scope for it to develop and actually served to weaken it. This draw was Avram Grant's first West London derby in charge of Chelsea and the same for Lawrie Sanchez of Fulham. [11] This game was marred by crowd trouble and saw both sets of fans enter the pitch.[12]. Jesper Grønkjær gave Chelsea a first-half lead, but QPR got an equaliser from Leroy Griffiths and then took lead from a long range effort by Karl Connolly. Chelsea have outwitted Fulham time and again at the back. 80 min: Tom Cairney departs to a hearty ovation, with the Fulham skipper handing over the armband to Mitrovic as Luciano Vietto enters. Despite QPR being members of the Football League since 1920, the two sides did not meet in a competitive match until 1968–69, when Rangers made their debut in the First Division. The only bad feeling between the clubs was soon after Chelsea's foundation and admission into the Football League in 1905, the other West London clubs, including Brentford, lost many supporters and potential supporters to the only professional Football League club in the area. ceasing to exist. 69 min: Anguissa makes his mark, unmercifully hauling down Willian on halfway. 47 min: Hazard has Emerson for company but opts to bend an effort at goal, though Rico easily gathers. This time the Fulham goalkeeper denies Higuaín with an instinctive save at his front post. This page was last edited on 29 September 2020, at 12:47. Their latest meeting was in the 2020 EFL Championship play-off Final to define the last promotion spot to the Premier League where Fulham won 2–1 over Brentford after extra time. McDonald picks up a yellow card, but the reality is that Chelsea have been just too clever. “I had a lot of experience in the Premier League, and obviously that kick-started my international career. 64 min: Rüdiger slides in to prevent Sessegnon’s ball in from the right from reaching Mitrovic. [16], QPR were promoted to the Premier League for the 2011–12 season, meaning the derby would take place for the first time in over ten years and in the Premier League for the first time. Chelsea won the replay on 17 February 2013 at Stamford Bridge 4–0. 69 min: And now Joe Bryan has a little nibble at Willian, with a late challenge on the Brazilian causing a few handbags, but nothing more. Chelsea gained revenge for this defeat on 23 September with a 2–0 win at Craven Cottage, in which Frank Lampard struck twice. Now the 24-year-old is hoping another temporary spell away from Stamford Bridge can kickstart it. Chelsea could be out of sight. But he was set back by an Achilles injury which kept him out for 13 months, suffered in a Blues charity match in April last year. 74 min: Kepa has a goal-kick, and a prime opportunity for Chelsea to regain the control they have lost. He did. Edward Pince – first Brentford, then QPR. The peak of the rivalry was arguably during the inter-war years and just after, when matches between the sides were always among the most popular (and most highly attended) on the fixture calendar. As for Fulham, they remain 10 points adrift of safety with nine games to play. Sarri must be pondering a change or two. His quick-thinking was not matched by his Chelsea team-mates, though, with Higuaín failing to get on the end of his cross. “Hopefully Fulham can do the same thing, after being out for so long with injury, regain that same feel for the game. The two teams frequently competed between the 1920s and the 1950s in the Football League‘s various divisions. News Corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services. 40 min: Rico shuts out Hazard! The gaffer agreed on that and things went on from there.”. 35 min: Chambers tries to find Mitrovic, but it’s an awkward ball and Chelsea gobble it up no problem, as Fulham gift back possession. The clubs developed a rivalry in the 1960s and 1970s when both were playing top-flight football and competing to be among London's top sides, with Chelsea winning the FA Cup, Cup Winners' Cup and League Cup, and Rangers winning the League Cup and finishing as league runners-up by a single point. The match finished in a 6–0 victory for Fulham, with Andy Johnson each bagging a hat-trick.[17]. 82 min: Chambers does well to avert danger, with Willian bombing down the left flank after a powerful run by Loftus-Cheek. Fulham boss Scott Parker said last week that he still expected Loftus-Cheek to have a long-term future at Chelsea as he knew how much Frank Lampard thought of him. Goals by Higuaín and Jorginho either side of Calum Chambers’s equaliser give Chelsea the advantage. The fact that the Mittal family, who own a 20% stake in the club, are reputed to be five times as rich as Abramovich has seen QPR fans dub themselves the world's richest club. The midfielder explained: “We had an honest conversation. It has led to him being farmed out again, this time to rivals Fulham, where he hopes playing regularly will both prove his fitness and put him back on the path he was on after leaving Palace. 51 min: Willian skirts away from Kevin McDonald and the referee’s not happy with the Fulham midfielder. “This is a platform for me to go and express myself and find that form that was showing a couple of seasons ago. 90 min: There will be five added minutes. The only time that the two clubs ever shared a division was in the old First Division between 1935 and 1947, but despite the fact that both clubs are local to each other, it was never seen as a big rivalry to either side, as Chelsea had been in the Football League for a longer period of time than Brentford and had stronger rivalries with the likes of West Ham United, Arsenal and Tottenham … 52 min: And now Willian hammers into the side-netting after Joe Bryan gets caught ball-watching. The story infamously broke in the London press but Brentford supporters rallied to save their club. It was QPR, however, who had the last laugh. 59 min: Babel comes alive off the left and, though he is unable to cleanly thread through Mitrovic, the Serbia striker does well to carve out an opening. And Parker can only bite his tongue in frustration. In fact, to make matters worse, Graham Scott ends up helping the ball on in the middle of the park, much to the anger of Chambers. This particular derby is less prominent than other such derbies in English football, owing to the teams frequently being in separate divisions. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. On 23 October 2011, Chelsea lost 1–0 to a newly promoted QPR in the first Premier League match between the sides since 1996. The origins of a rivalry between Fulham and QPR date back before Chelsea were formed. Time is ticking if Fulham are to rescue anything out of this one. With a last-minute controversial switch by Bobby Zamora to the Hoops, at the end of the January transfer window, Fulham's first return to their temporary ground was a spicy affair. QPR and Chelsea have competed in two pre-season friendlies since the turn of the century. It feels like a matter of time until Chelsea increase their lead. So we know what’s coming.”. And that comes just after another move where Chelsea had Fulham on the ropes. Fulham 1-1 Chelsea (Chambers, 27) 9.26am EST 09:26 GOAL! Fulham thus had an indirect role in Chelsea's foundation. However, in 1966, despite an opening day 6–1 thrashing of their local rivals, Brentford were ultimately relegated whilst QPR were promoted and went on to enjoy many seasons in the upper leagues. The rivalry resumed in 2001 and continued for several seasons until Rangers were promoted. Chelsea have gone a little stale in the last few minutes. Higuaín manages to hook the ball into the path of Hazard, who powers into the box. Bryan wins a corner out of Willian, but Mitrovic – with both Christensen and Kante for company – cannot steer his header goalwards. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. I really enjoyed playing under Roy. In 2015–16, the clubs met once more in the Championship, and Fulham convincingly won both fixtures, in both cases being 3–0 up before half-time. The derby's most common match, Chelsea vs Fulham, has taken place 75 times. Samba Diakité was sent off in the first half, and Zamora's replacement, Pavel Pogrebnyak scored the only goal of the game, meaning Fulham had done the double over QPR in the league. If I don’t go to Palace, I don’t make the England team.”. “But at the forefront is Fulham. Chelsea enjoyed successful spells during the 1960s and 1970s, and again from the mid-1990s to the present day, while Fulham spent much of that period in the lower divisions of the Football League. The two clubs spent a majority of seasons in the same division until the 1997–98 Division Two campaign, which ended with Brentford suffering relegation to Division Three. While both clubs were largely unsuccessful until the 1960s, they have since drifted apart and the significance of matches between them has correspondingly declined. Fulham and Brentford have competed at the same level for a few periods in their history with the rivalry being fiercest during Fulham's descent to the lower leagues in the 1980s and early '90s. Neither side have made personnel changes, but Babel has swapped flanks with Sessegnon, with the teenager moving to the right-hand side. The Lewisham lad said: “I still see my future at Chelsea. Tom Cairney was among the Fulham players that benefited from more clarity.