HARRY WILSON remains Brentford enemy No1 after scoring his FOURTH derby comeback goal against the Bees for local rivals Fulham in THREE games.
Last November the super-sub scored a last-gasp brace to silence the noisy neighbours with goals in the 92nd and 97th minutes to win 2-1.
And that was after his heroics in May when he leaped off the bench to notch the 70th-minute winner in a 3-2 away romp.
In just 32 minutes of action last season, after twice failing to make the starting XI, he scored three goals in two derby wins and earned his place in last night’s starting line up.
And he thanked Fulham gaffer Marco Silva with another deft finish that got his side back level, before they raced away with the win.
Mikkel Damsgaard gave Brentford the lead, against the run of play on 20 minutes.
But Alex Iwobi, Wilson and a headed Ethan Pinnock own-goal swung the game and three points back in Fulham’s favour.
Jordan Henderson – making his 500th league appearance across spells with Sunderland, Coventry, Liverpool, Al-Ettifaq, Ajax, and now Brentford – got the early run around by 18-year-old Josh King, who always found pockets of space and bright ideas.
Calvin Bassey suffered the most gut-busting injury of the season so far when Henderson whacked him in the knackers from a yard and he folded over in pain as the agony travelled through his body.
On 14 minus there was a bright Fulham move when Ryan Sessegnon crossed into Rodrigo Muniz who teed up Wilson for a dragged effort that went for a corner.
But for all of Fulham’s dominance and creativity in Brentford’s half, they gifted the visitors an undeserved lead on 20 minutes.
King was either finding it too easy or too boring playing against the Bees’ midfield, so he went ridiculously deep to take the ball off goalkeeper Bernd Leno and tried to whip a no-look pass out to full-back Kenny Tete.
But Damsgaard nicked the stray ball and slotted it past Leno, who could do nothing about the surprise attack.
The best thing about the debacle, from Fulham’s perspective, was the senior players in the squad racing around crushed King to tell him not to abdicate from his role of demanding the ball in tight spaces and creating.
Sasa Lukic tried a copy-cat crime nine minutes later when he too tried to be too clever, too deep, and lost the ball in his own final third.
This time Kevin Schade got handed the shot but his effort was blocked for a corner.
The home side could have doubled their lead on 35 minutes when Sessegnon ran and shot, Caoimhin Kelleher fumbled and Muniz leaped on it but could not convert the rebound.
But four minutes later the hosts had their equaliser when Lukic looped a cross over Nathan Collins was bullied and then bungled.
The ball dropped to Iwobi and he stabbed the bouncing ball behind Kelleher.
And barely two minutes later the comeback was ruthlessly complete.
And it was Brentford Boogieman Wilson haunting them again. Keith Andrews’ men dithered at the back, Munoz fed Iwobi, who put it on a plate for Wilson to curl home effortlessly.
King – who had redeemed himself with confidence and bravery on the ball since his howler gave away the opener – was booked for a dive two minutes before the break.
Brentford’s dismal bus ride home along the A316 was booked just five minutes after the restart.
Sessegnon raced down the left, he drove a cross into the box and Pinnock closed his eyes, got his head to the ball and nodded the ball past his own stranded stopper.
Munoz had a goal chalked off on 62 minutes when Collins was clipped by his elbow and bloodied in the build-up to a smashed strike.
And Wilson got a standing ovation as he slipped out on 86 minutes, licking his lips at the chance to face his favourite nemesis again on April 18 and add to his outrageous record.
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