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Summary: Craven Cottage erupts as Fulham's capitalizes on 75% possession in the first 13 minutes. After Marcus Diamond drew a penalty in the box, Aboubakar Kamara steps to the spot and slots the ball into the net, 1-0.

The score remained 1-0 going into halftime after Aston Villa hit the post in the 26th minute and then the crossbar in the 42nd minute.

Villa finally broke down Fulham's backline in the 55th minute. Bjarne Leren tapped in the equalizer off a simple cross. Momentum has shifted.

On a counter-attack in the 89th minute, Dean McCloskey delivered the dagger. Fulham put too many guys forward and it cost them. Although, Fulham thought they pulled the game level 2-2 in the 93rd minute, but Kamara was flagged for offsides. A breakaway going the other way was stopped on cynical tackle in the box.

Luka Cancarevic scored the penalty to seal Fulham's fate, 3-1.

Rating: 7.3 - Was the best Fulham player on the pitch today, but it wasn't enough to get the job done. If it's any consolation, Aston Villa got knocked out the next round, by the same score of 3-1, against my favourite team growing up: Tottenham Hotspurs. Sweet justice.

Player of Game: Bjarne Leren, Aston Villa (8.3)

Summary: The game had the feeling that one goal was going to be enough. Well, West Bromwich Albion scored three in the final five minutes to stab a sword through Fulham's heart.

Rating: 6.4 - Coach let us have it after the game. Frustrated locker room right now. Our hopes of winning the league have taken a massive blow.

Player of Game: Daniel Finch, West Bromwich Albion (8.8)

Summary: No, your eyes aren't deceiving you. Eight different goal scorers racked up 13 combined goals. Fulham never led, trailing 3-1 and 4-2. But tied the game twice at 5-5 and 6-6. But, David Brooks made sure there was a winner in this absolute thriller with the final goal coming in the 86th minute.

A 6-6 draw would have been the highest scoring draw in Sky Bet history. The 7-6 result goes down as highest scoring game in the modern-day history of the league. One for the record books for sure.

Rating: 7.1 - That was utter chaos and then some. Never thought scoring six goals wouldn't be enough. Or, that we scored six goals and I didn't get a goal or an assist.

Player of Game: Timmy Abraham, Fulham (9.3)

Summary: Fulham's fall from grace continues.

Rating: 6.3 - Bad.

Player of Game: Gary Talbot, Burton Albion (7.8)

Summary: There was a glimmer of hope when Aboubakar Kamara scored to give Fulham a 2-1 lead early into the first half. It was false hope. Fulham's month-long slump continues. Five straight defeats.

Rating: 6.4 - Still bad. Played with stitches in my head.

Player of Game: Ben Brereton, Burnley (8.8)

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Summary: Great Britain opens the points race with a strong statement. Matthew Walls and Marcus Diamond cross the line 1-2. Donega and Martins collect the remaining points.


Walls is making a mockery of this event. Going solo to win the second sprint. He is clearly upset/motivated that Diamond got to represent Great Britain at the Olympics.

The secondary placings went to Martins, Staniszewski and Diamond.


A new winner! Martorell Haga takes the third sprint in front of Paternoster, Diamond and Kay. That marks the halfway point.


GB tag team. Diamond and Walls break away to take the fourth sprint. Romano and Vogel get the scraps a few meters later. That gives Walls 13 points with his fellow countryman sitting on 11 points. Two sprints left.


Consistent Diamond wins the fifth sprint. The Olympic bronze medalist and Tour de France green jersey winner is in his element. He has collected points on every sprint so far.

Behind him are Romano, Olympic gold medalist Hansen collected his first points and quickly becoming his arch rival, Walls.

Diamond leads 16-14 over Walls heading to the last sprint.


DIAMOND! The Brit executes a perfect sprint and is unmatched!

Result: 1st - Had to collect the most points possible in what I consider my best event. This is a fantastic start, but far from over.

Summary: Marcus Diamond is on fire! Make it 2-for-2 here at the Omnium World Championships. The peloton handed him this win. No breakaway and let Diamond show his blazing speed in the final sprint!

Result: 1st, 1st Overall - What a start to the season!

Summary: After two brilliant rounds and seeing everybody else go first in the 200-meter TT, leader Marcus Diamond just needed to score one point to secure the World Championship before the final event.

As expected, he did not. And finished last.

Francesca Selva bested Hansen and Miliaeva in the race against the clock. But, defending Olympic gold medalist Hansen will be the only rider who could tie Diamond in the Elimination Race.

Result: 16th, 1st Overall - Did enough in the first two events that my time trialing abilities won't matter this time around. All I got to do in the Elimination Race is avoid the first three eliminations or make sure Hansen doesn't win and I'm a World Champion!

Summary: Well, that is the definition of anti-climatic. It only takes one round to decide who the World Champion will be this year as Hansen is the first rider eliminated. Which of course means...


Diamond does have some history left to chase. The most points scored at the World Championships under this scoring system was set by Omnium legend Benjamin Thomas during his win in 2021 with 55 points.

Diamond would need 5th place to tie, 4th or better to break the record.


Not meant to be. Diamond plays it too safe and is eliminated in 13th.


The last race of the day is won by Malmberg over Miliaeva.

The result helps Malmberg crack the Top 5, while Miliaeva makes up for her heartbreaking 4th at the Olympics with a runner-up finish at the Worlds. Taking the last spot on the podium is Vanessa Romano.

Result: 13th, 1st Overall - World Champion... Unbelievable.

No more bragging for Vogel, who finished 13th. Pretty sure a World Championship tops an Olympic silver medal. Although, I'm sure she will argue otherwise. Guess I'll be back next year to defend my crown.

Summary: Rain and cobbles, never a good mix.

But, this crash with 90kms to go happens on the tarmac. Lots of big names getting caught out with the peloton down to 30 riders. Surely some of them will make it back though.


We hit the next cobbled sector a few kilometers later and a crash in the depleted peloton. Marcus Diamond just missing this while some of the outside favourites aren't so lucky. This is a mess.


In the chaos, Diamond decides to attack. Nobody follows. Why would they? Still 85kms to go. Diamond does have a teammate two minutes up the road, Demi Vollering, who got in the morning breakaway.


The regrouped peloton let Diamond dangle off the front for 25kms before dragging him back with Michael Matthews, who dropped from the breakaway. Speaking of which, the 18-cyclist breakaway remains 2 minutes ahead.


Diamond says goodbye to the peloton with 33kms to go. What a waste of an attack that was. He's legs, check that, whole body is feeling it.


Funny enough. Diamond actually had the right idea.

The breakaway goes on to win the day, keeping their two-minute gap over the favourites. 37-year-old Marta Bastianelli, who jumped across to the breakaway in the final 25kms takes the victory ahead of Lukasz Wisniowski and Jasper Stuyven.

Result: 47th (+5'32") - Note to self, I'm not Superman. Although, I knew the breakaway had a good shot at winning with all the crashes in the bunch and the number of riders racing hard up front. I just didn't have the leg power to cross the gap. The team still did OK despite my failure: Demi Vollering in 13th and Tebiro Pienaar in 25th.

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Summary: Fulham puts aside past demons. It's the prowess of midfielder Marcus Diamond with the opening goal and the closing assist that helps Fulham finally snap its dreaded losing streak.


Rating: 8.3 - We back baby!

Player of Game: Aboubakar Kamara, Fulham (8.7)

Summary: Game of missed opportunities, for Fulham. Bristol City with another convincing win by scoring on five of its seven shots on target. Meanwhile, Fulham scored once on 22 shots (10 on target).

Rating: 7.8 - By far the best player on the pitch of Fulham. Show me another guy who can get a 7.8 rating and have his team lose by four goals... But, yeah, it's not about me. We, the team, have to play better.

Player of Game: Niclas Eliasson, Bristol City (9.6)

Summary: Fulham just can't seem to shake its bad form caused by awful defense and not finishing chances. Missed penalty and a breakaway saved in the 94th minute prevent Fulham from getting points in this one. They now slip three points away from being out of a playoff spot.

Rating: 6.7 - Picked up another assist, but means nothing in a loss.

Player of Game: Sean Brockbank, Walsall (9.1)

Summary: Fulham gets laughed off the pitch.

Rating: 6.8 - If you're frustrated, how do you think I feel?

Player of Game: Aaron Murphy, Rotherham (9.0)

Summary: Atrocious. Grant Gillam scores Fulham's 100th league goal of the season to at least avoid consecutive shutouts.

Hours after the game ended, the media was informed head coach James Coppinger had resigned. Assistant coach Peter Grant was named the interim head coach. Fulham has now dropped to 7th in the Sky Bet table and out of a playoff spot.

Rating: 5.8 - Sad to see coach go, but something had to be done.

Player of Game: Jacob Murphy, Reading (9.5)

Summary: New coach, same problems.

Rating: 6.7 - Got an assist, but I don't think I have ever hated the game of football as much as I do right now. This is (explicit).

Player of Game: Matthew Virtue, QPR (8.3)

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