Five-Goal Thriller in London: City Edge Fulham 5-4 in a Premier League Classic
3 December 2025
Record night in London: City edge Fulham 5-4 in a football fever dream
Manchester City’s trip to Fulham produced a record night in a 5-4 thriller that will be remembered for years. The champions mounted a late surge to clinch a hard-fought win in the 14th round of the Premier League.
Haaland opened the scoring, Tijani Reinders doubled the lead, Phil Foden added a brace, and an own goal from Sander Berge completed City’s fifth. Fulham struck back with four goals: Emil Smith Rowe, Alex Iwobi, and a double from Samuel Chukwueze (scorers listed at 45+2, 57, 72, 78).
City extended their win streak against Fulham to sixteen in the league, the longest streak City has enjoyed against any opponent in the competition's history.
Arsenal still lead the table, but City moved to 28 points in second place, while Fulham sit on 17 points in 15th.
Opta data showed City won despite conceding four goals in a league match for the first time since December 1957. The match also featured a rare offside moment for Haaland away from home, the first since August 2023.
Following Chukwueze's brace for Fulham, their substitutes have tallied 21 league goals since last season's start, more than any other squad.
Pep Guardiola's side earned their 37th London win in 57 matches, a 65% win rate for a manager with at least ten away games in the capital across the Premier League era.
In the end, the drama left supporters with a reminder that in football, even a five-goal game can still deliver a surprise punchline: the scoreboard sometimes reads like a novel, and you still can't predict the ending. Punchline time: if City keep scoring like this, they'll soon need a bigger keyboard to type the score. And if Fulham keeps defending like this, their goalkeeper will soon file a 'how to survive a 5-4' manual. Sniper joke: City's attackers didn't shoot blanks; they fired a whole artillery platoon-- and somehow the goalkeeper forgot to duck. Final wink: football, because who needs a thriller when you can have a fifth-gear rollercoaster in London?
