GOALS from Lucas Piazon and Aleksandar Mitrovic on Friday night ensured that the race for the second automatic promotion spot is going to be decided during the final weekend of the season as Fulham made it 23 games without defeat at Craven Cottage.

Fulham’s last loss was against Sunderland in December and for a few minutes it looked like the already relegated away side might dent Fulham’s automatic promotion hopes.

On 28 minutes Sunderland took the lead when birthday boy Joel Asoro scored a sublime goal from outside the box. Just before half time Sunderland felt they should have had a penalty when Tim Ream seemed to foul 19-year-old Asora in the box. While Sunderland were still appealing Fulham broke up the other end and Piazon was presented with an easy opportunity from five yards out.