Three points and three places separate Fulham and Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Premier League table as the two clubs prepare to close gameweek 13 at Craven Cottage on Monday night.
Marco Silva's side fell to a 3-1 loss to Aston Villa before international football took precedence, while Wolves snatched victory from the jaws of defeat in a 2-1 win over Tottenham Hotspur a fortnight ago.
Before the Mexico international registered his first goal of the season, Antonee Robinson had turned the ball past Bernd Leno - his second own goal of the season - to propel Villa into the ascendancy, and further strikes from John McGinn and Ollie Watkins preceded Jimenez's consolation 20 minutes from the end.
Many a visiting team have tried and failed to knock down the walls of the Lions' impenetrable Villa Park fortress in 2023, so defeat to Unai Emery's Champions League chasers was certainly forgivable, but an unsightly sequence of three defeats and a draw from their last four Premier League games is less so.
The wildly inconsistent Cottagers are sleepwalking towards a perilous position in the table, as they occupy 15th place with 12 points to their name - albeit while sitting comfortably seven clear of Sheffield United in 18th spot - and Fulham now return to a ground where two of their three league wins have come this season.
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