Fulham 2-0 Hull City: Fulham move top of early season Championship table
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Teenager Fabio Carvalho has been one of Fulham's stand out players this season
Aleksandar Mitrovic and Fabio Carvalho both scored for the third consecutive game as Fulham moved top of the Championship with a comfortable win against Hull.
Mitrovic headed home from a corner midway through the first half, with teenager Carvalho doubling the Whites' advantage 10 minutes later.
Fulham were unable to add to their tally, but were rarely troubled by the Tigers, who slid to their third consecutive defeat.
The victory maintained an unbeaten start to the season for Marco Silva's side and put them ahead of West Brom and Stoke on goal difference.
The Tigers began brightly as Greg Docherty tested Paulo Gazzaniga with a 25-yard drive, while Josh Magennis should have done better with a header that flew straight at the Fulham keeper.
Despite two enforced reshuffles at the back after Tim Ream and Kenny Tete were forced off with knocks, there was no obvious disruption to Fulham's rhythm and Mitrovic found space to head in Jean Michael Seri's corner.
Antonee Robinson's run and cross then set up the dangerous Carvalho, who slotted into the far corner and Fulham could have been out of sight by the interval, with Mitrovic and Ivan Cavaleiro both going close.
Although Keane Lewis-Potter provided the odd glimpse of hope for Hull, the home side continued to push forward in the second half without adding to their tally.
Hull debutant Di'Shon Bernard's crucial challenge denied Mitrovic again and the Serb striker was inches away from making it 3-0 with another glancing header from Robinson's cross.
Seri also stung Matt Ingram's palms with a long-range attempt as Fulham closed out a third straight win without difficulty.
Fulham head coach Marco Silva:
"I'm happy with the three points, because we asked our players before the game to aim for the target of the third win in a row, with the first home win as well. If you achieve that, I'm happy.
"It wasn't the best performance to be honest with you. In this competition, with the level that you are, it was not the perfect performance that we had against Millwall.
"We have to play to win football matches. Today, we won the game because we were the best team on the pitch.
"After our first goal we saw confidence and controlled the game better, in the way we wanted.
"Antonee Robinson is in our model, in our way to play. It was his best performance this season."
Hull City head coach Grant McCann told BBC Radio Humberside:
"I thought we showed real bravery, the way we were playing through their lines and we got forward in some really good areas, but we didn't capitalise on it.
"We knew we'd have to give up the ball a little bit. We had to stay compact and defend manfully and I thought we did that in the second half, but we just didn't show that edge at the top end of the pitch.
"We're coming to probably the best team in the division without Mallik Wilks, George Honeyman, Ryan Longman and George Moncur. They're all attacking players and can make a difference in games.
"We're probably over reliant on (Josh) Magennis and Keane (Lewis-Potter) but when that happens you need a set-play to work, you need people to get on the end of crosses into their box and it wasn't to be today."