Everton 4 Fulham 0
Nikica Jelavic put Fulham to the sword as they were thrashed by Everton.
Jelavic scored twice and hit the woodwork, while Marouane Fellaini and Tim Cahill also helped themselves to goals on a miserable afternoon for Martin Jol’s men.
Manager Jol missed the game as has a chest infection and did not travel with the squad.
Fulham have not kept a clean sheet at Goodison Park since 1959 and were behind after only seven minutes of this totally one-sided game.
Pavel Pogrebnyak was harshly punished for protecting his face by handling a driven free-kick from Jelavic, who netted with the resulting penalty.
Jelavic came close to adding a second when he latched onto Phil Jagielka’s ball forward, beat Brede Hangeland, and then fired against the post.
A minute later, however, Everton did double their lead when an unmarked Fellani met Steven Pienaar’s right-wing corner with a header which Damien Duff failed to clear on the line.
The home side were 3-0 up at half-time courtesy of Jelavic, who finished well after being put through by Pienaar’s through-ball.
Worse followed for Fulham on the hour-mark and again Piennar was involved, setting up Cahill to slot past keeper Mark Schwarzer, who tipped away Jelavic’s late free-kick to deny the Croatian a hat-trick.
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This post was last modified on 28/04/2012