Blackpool v Fulham RECAP: Updates from Bloomfield Road as Seasiders search for first league win against league leaders

Blackpool take on the early pace setters Fulham at Bloomfield Road today looking to pick up their first league win of the campaign.
The Seasiders return to league action after a 14-day international breakThe Seasiders return to league action after a 14-day international break
The Seasiders return to league action after a 14-day international break

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Key Events

  • FT: Blackpool 1-0 Fulham
  • Seasiders take on league leaders on their return from the international break
  • Four new recruits in line to make their debuts
  • Neil Critchley’s men still searching for first league win

Jerry Yates spots the keeper off his line just inside the Fulham half and tries an audacious long-range effort, but Gazzaniga retreats to make the save.

That would have been special!

49 - GOAL BLACKPOOL!!!!

Josh Bowler does superbly to waltz past two or three Fulham challenges before slipping the ball past Paulo Gazzaniga at his near post. A great solo effort from the winger!!

Absolute bedlam here at Bloomfield Road! The place is rocking.

Kevin Stewart picks out Josh Bowler over on the right flank with a raking ball. Bowler shifts the ball past his marker but his cross is straight at keeper Paulo Gazzaniga.

We’re back underway

Ryan Wintle gets the game restarted.

Tim Ream curls in a cross from the left flank which beats everyone, including Chris Maxwell, and almost nestles in the far corner. Thankfully it drops wide instead.

That would have been cruel on the Seasiders.

There will be three minutes added on at the end of an entertaining first-half, which Pool have dominated.

Can they finally make the breakthrough?

Jordan Gabriel is blatantly blocked off by a Fulham player, but the referee bizarrely allows play to continue. Thankfully Luke Garbutt recovered to make a vital interception before the away side could get a shot off at goal.

Jean Michael Seri then fizzes a long-range shot inches wide.

Pool attempt a set-piece routine which nearly goes horribly wrong. Luke Garbutt plays it short to Josh Bowler, who dummies it...straight to a Fulham player. Neil Critchley turns away in digust.

The visitors break at speed, before Aleksander Mitrovic has a shot blocked.

Josh Bowler appears to dribble the ball out of play after beating two Fulham men, but the linesman awards a Pool corner instead.

Luke Garbutt to take.