Mikel Arteta hailed the character Gabriel Magalhaes showed after the Brazilian’s late winner saved his own blushes and those of Bukayo Saka, too.
Saka, from out on the right-hand side, should not have played the ball in towards Gabriel on his own penalty spot midway through the second half. “That’s clear,” Arteta said when asked if he felt that was the case.
But after a decent enough first touch from the central defender, a dreadful second let him down and gave Aleksandar Mitrovic all the opening he needed to nick the ball off him and fire Fulham into a lead they did not deserve.
