Josh King OH scores first Premier League goal

By Alex Watson

Today, Josh King OH (2023) netted his first ever Premier League goal for Fulham in a 3-1 win against Burnley, slotting home an equaliser with just under 70 minutes on the clock to kickstart a comeback from the Whites.

A goal which Fulham manager Marco Silva said he was ‘very much deserving’, it was also King’s first time getting on the scoresheet at his boyhood club’s home ground, Craven Cottage – capitalising on a spill from the Burnley goalkeeper, he was quick to pounce on the loose ball and squeeze his finish past the desperate lunges of the opposition defence on the goal line.

King’s exploits in the game did not stop there, however, as he supplied Harry Wilson with an assist just six minutes later to put Fulham into a 2-1 lead. Such an influential performance in the Premier League has been a long time coming for the former Hampton man, who has broken back into the Whites’ starting XI recently following a period out on the sidelines with a knee injury.

Having received a call up to the England U21 Euro Qualifiers squad, King is in a great place at the moment, at both club and international level, and it seems like he will only build on his current momentum. Let’s hope he can live up to Silva’s confident post-match words and make that goal ‘the first of many that will come’.