Fulham Under-23s picked up a 6-0 win against Reading Under-23s at Bearwood Park in their first pre-season friendly.
Four goals from Fabio Carvalho and one each from Jean-Pierre Tiehi and Ben Davis secured a comfortable win for the side.
The game was split into three 30-minute periods.
Fulham goalkeeper Taye Ashby-Hammond was called into action early, making a diving save to deny a curling free-kick heading straight for the corner.
The young Whites opened the scoring on 20 minutes with a clever free-kick routine. The ball found its way to Davis who calmly slotted into the bottom left corner.
Ashby-Hammond dug his teammates out of trouble again 25 minutes in, blocking a powerful close-range header.
Our lead was soon doubled courtesy of Carvalho. Tiehi played a delightful through ball to the midfielder who slid the ball around the ‘keeper before passing it into an open net.
Two soon became three early in the second period. Ziyad Larkeche found Carvalho who fired a beautiful long-range curling shot, leaving the goalkeeper with no chance.
Carvalho completed his hat-trick 26 minutes into the second period. Ollie O’Neill found Terry Ablade who rolled the ball across to his left where Carvalho was waiting to stroke the ball into the bottom left corner. He then remarkably added another goal to his name after intercepting the ball and punishing the hosts' defence.
Tiehi got in on the action in the final period, wrestling the ball off the defender before pushing it onto his right and slotting the ball into the net to make it five.
Starting Lineup:
T Ashby-Hammond, L Duru, Z Larkeche, J Aina, I Odutayo, R De Havilland, B Davis, J Harris, F Carvalho, T Ablade, JP Tiehi
Subs:
D Las, Ollie O’Neill, S Hilton