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Watford won a 4-1 victory at Vicarage Road to seal Fulham's fate
By Ben Grounds
Last updated: 02/04/19 22h19
Ryan Sessegnon cuts down figure as relegation of Fulham has been confirmed
Fulham relegation from the Premier League was confirmed Tuesday night after a ninth consecutive loss to Watford.
Ryan Babel equalized for Fulham after Abdoulaye Doucoure scored the first match of Watford, while the Scott Parker players produced a superb poster in the first half on Vicarage Road.
But they finally succumbed to a 4-1 loss to Will Hughes, Troy Deeney and Kiko Femenia, who scored for 12 minutes.
The Cottagers were the third biggest spenders in the Premier League last summer, with £ 105.3 million spent on 12 new players after the championship promotion.
Scott Parker could not prevent Fulham from being relegated
Indeed, the club of West London has become the first team recently promoted to cross the threshold of 100 million pounds in a window.
But Slavisa Jokanovic was sacked in November and was immediately replaced by Claudio Ranieri after winning a win in the first 12 league games, leaving Fulham at the bottom of the table.
The arrival of Ranieri was announced by the owner Shahid Khan as a "risk free" appointment, but the Italian was sacked after less than four months at the head of Craven Cottage, n? having achieved only three victories in 17 matches in all competitions.
Troy Deeney tries to beat Fulham 3-1 at Watford
Scott Parker was placed under the tutelage of the interim guardian – but with already 10 points ahead of safety after four successive defeats in the Premier League, the former midfielder was still struggling to extend the return from club to summit after a season.
The defeats that followed against Chelsea, Leicester, Liverpool and Manchester City put Fulham on the brink of the fall – and this has been confirmed in Hertfordshire.
Andre Zambo Anguissa and Jean Michael Seri of Fulham look down on
Huddersfield will join Fulham at the championship next season. His two-year stint in the Premier League ended last weekend.
Jan Siewert's team needed to take it to Crystal Palace for his fate to remain in his hands, but his 2-0 defeat against Roy Hodgson's team on Saturday sealed his fate before the beginning of the month of April.
Analysis
Fulham fans will scratch their heads. In just nine months, the club has been able to transform an evolving, fluid and talented team that is well deserving of promotion, into a laughing stock that has thrown more than £ 100 million in transfer fees. They were the third biggest spenders in the Premier League this summer.
Slavisa Jokanovic – who organized the promotion – was eliminated four months after the start of the campaign and replaced by Premier League winner Claudio Ranieri. It only lasted 106 days and could not save a sinking ship whose defense is one of the worst in the history of the Premier League.
2 – 2018-19 (Fulham and Huddersfield) is only the second Premier League campaign in which two teams were relegated to at least five games by the end of the 1994-95 campaign (Leicester City and Ipswich Town) . Drop. pic.twitter.com/nsOwzd2Uyb
– OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) April 2, 2019
Repeatedly this season, Fulham has played in big games but a defensive mistake has cost them dearly. In the Premier League, you simply can not offer a clear chance to the opposition. Only Rochdale (77) in the first four rows of English football conceded more goals this season than the Londoners from the west (76).
Scott Parker wants the role next season but the one who is responsible for rebuilding Fulham in the Sky Bet Championship has big decisions to make in terms of recruiting and overhauling the loser mentality in a club that has completely ruined his gold ticket for the Premier League. (Lewis Jones)
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