Crystal Palace U18s 0-6 Fulham U18s

Fulham Under-18s made it four games unbeaten with a convincing 6-0 victory at Crystal Palace.

Our Young Whites were two goals up before the break thanks to goals from Luca Picotto and Farhaan Ali Wahid. Striker Bashil Lubega added another shortly after the break, before Macaulay Zepa, Jayden Quashie and Ruban Khan made sure of a stunning win.

The game sparked into life on 20 minutes as Macaulay Zepa forced a fingertips save from Palace ‘keeper Billy Eastwood after cutting in from the right.

From the resulting corner, captain Quashie dropped a ball in at the front post finding Aidan Evans, and despite the striker showing good improvisation to chest the ball towards goal, it fell just wide.

Zepa was the catalyst for the opener, making his way to the byline before drilling a ball towards the far post, allowing Picotto to finish from practically on the line.

An instant reply almost followed as Marco Underwood gave the ball away playing out from the back, but Matteo Dashi fired over despite having an open goal to aim at.

Ali Wahid made it three goals in three games six minutes before the interval, coolly finishing into the corner after being slotted in by Quashie.

It was three shortly after the interval as Lubega kept his composure to finish past Eastwood after being played in by Ridgeon.

Evans should have made it four as he ran through one-on-one, but Eastwood made a fine stop to keep the score at three.

But it didn’t stay like that for long as Zepa got his goal after 68 minutes, cutting inside and beating the Palace goalkeeper from the edge of the area.

The hosts were reduced to 10-men just a couple of minutes later as Dashi was shown a second yellow card.

Quashie made it five from the spot, sending Eastwood the wrong way after Ali Wahid was fouled in the box at the end of a mazy run.

Khan completed the scoring in stoppage-time with a beautiful first-time finish with his left foot after being picked out by fellow substitute Harley Platel.

It’s now four games unbeaten for Ali Melloul’s side, who host West Brom at Motspur Park on Saturday, 11am kick-off.