Burnley haunted by familiar failings and Scott Parker must act over struggling star - as outstanding Harry Wilson inspires Fulham again in 3-2 win over Clarets

For Fulham , the curse is over. For Burnley , the ghouls haunting this miserable Premier League campaign show no signs of leaving after this 3-2 defeat.

Inspired by an outstanding Harry Wilson display, Fulham ended a 74-year barren run without a league win at Turf Moor, leaving the victors for the first time since a 2-0 win in April 1951.

This anxious Turf Moor crowd fleetingly had hope when Lesley Ugochukwu cancelled out Emile Smith Rowe 's opener for the first home goal here since mid-October.

But Calvin Bassey, teed up by Wilson, and then the Welshman himself took the game away from a side that have now lost seven straight matches and find themselves hurtling back to the Championship at an alarming rate.

Daily Mail Sport's NATHAN SALT was at Turf Moor to pick out some key talking points.

Harry Wilson produced a man-of-the match performance to add to Burnley's top-flight woes

Burnley don't score anywhere near enough goals to gift wrap them for others and that's what they did here twice in another alarming opening 45 minutes.

The first, coming nine minutes in through Smith Rowe, saw everyone in claret and blue switch off.

Lacking the glamour and stakes of when Trent Alexander-Arnold and Divock Origi bamboozled Barcelona in the Champions League for Liverpool, this inswinger from Wilson still bore similarities.

Even Fulham's second goal, which was initially cleared out of the box as far as Antonee Robinson, found its way back to corner taker Wilson and he had the easiest of jobs to lob it up onto the head of Bassey in the six-yard box for an easy header.

Both of those goals beg the question of how well prepared Burnley actually were for set-pieces, not least given the fact that only Arsenal have scored more (8) from corners than Marco Silva's side.

Burnley's survival hopes already look non-existent but if they can't fix the issue at corners - only West Ham have been more hopeless from them (10) than Burnley (7) - they really will have no hope.

It is alarming just how much of a soft touch Burnley look when trying to defend corners

Try making a list of current Premier League players who are better in the final third right now than Harry Wilson. You'll find you have a very short list.

The most striking step forward that Wilson has taken is how mature his performances are now and he is adding consistency to match.

Responsibility is clearly something he wants at 28, the prime years of a player's career, and both Fulham and Wales are reaping the reward.

His pair of assists and goal here mean Wilson's been involved in eight goals in 15 Premier League games this season (five goals, three assists), more than he was in 25 appearances last season (six goals, one assist).

Only in 2023-24 (10) has Wilson been involved in more in the top-flight.

For all the nice touches and clever bits of movement Armando Broja may showcase, ultimately the only metric which counts as the centre forward of a struggling team is goals and the 24-year-old is miles off it in that department.

The things Broja does well often occur in the least threatening areas of the pitch and while Scott Parker publicly talks up the former Chelsea striker, his barren run in front of goal is now at 39 Premier League games and counting.

Not since finding the net, ironically, against Fulham in October 2023 has Broja scored a top flight goal.

This was only Broja's second league start of the season, his first coming a week ago at Newcastle, so call it rust if you want. But Parker simply cannot keep picking a player with such little goal threat.

'I think it was the best version we've seen of Armando,' Parker said last week.

If this is Broja's best then Burnley fans have every right to be worried.

Armando Broja hasn't scored a Premier League goal since scoring vs Fulham in October 2023

Fulham had remarkably not won at Turf Moor in their last 34 visits prior to Saturday's triumph.

Bassey admitted post-match that the Fulham squad had been aware of the dismal record heading into the clash.

'We tried not to think about the 74 years but we were reminded about it. We just played our game, but we needed that.

‘There wasn’t pressure but in the last four or five games we have played well but haven’t got the results. Hopefully, it starts to go our way.

‘I hadn’t scored for a while. I had been working on my celebrations with Emile so was happy to get one. [Harry] Wilson is clutch.’

Clarets boss Parker added: 'The cold reality is we can't concede the goals we're conceding at the moment. It's déjà vu.

'The frustration comes from, we're in the game, we show our quality and these boys are giving me absolutely everything - you can see that - but the facts are in key moments, we're giving ourselves an absolute mountain to climb.

'In this division, it's proving very, very difficult. We need to fix up on that. There's no denying that. We need to work out exactly how we can do that.'

Calvin Bassey admitted the Fulham squad had been aware of their dismal record at Turf Moor

Burnley XI: Dubravka 6; Tuanzebe 5 (Sonne 77, 7), Ekdal 5, Esteve 5, Hartman 4.5; Cullen 6.5, Florentino 6 (Edwards 62, 6.5), Ugochukwu 6.5 (Tresor 83); Foster 6 (Flemming 62, 6), Broja 5, Bruun Larsen 5 (Anthony 77, 6)

Goals: Ugochukwu (22), Sonne (86)

Booked: Cullen

Manager: Scott Parker 6

Fulham XI: Leno 6.5; Tete 6, Bassey 7, Andersen 6, Robinson 6.5; Berge 6, Iwobi 7 (Lukic 79); Wilson 9 (Adama 89), Smith-Rowe 7.5 (Castagne 89), Chukwueze 7; Jimenez 6 (King 79)

Goals: Smith Rowe (9), Bassey (31), Wilson (58)

Booked: Andersen, Tete

Manager: Marco Silva 8

Referee: Michael Oliver 7

Att: 19,379