Fulham striker Moussa Dembele fired a hat-trick as the Cottagers reached the FA Youth Cup final yesterday.

Dembele's hat-trick left Reading heart-broken and delivered Fulham into their first ever FA Youth Cup final in a thrill-a-minute second leg tie at Craven Cottage.

The French youth international left the 10-man Royals stunned in stoppage time after Robert Dickie's clearance rebounded fortuitously off his shin and rolled past the goalkeeper to set up a London derby against either Arsenal or Chelsea in the final.

Dembele may have bagged a hat-trick but it was Patrick Roberts who ran the show, winning the first-half penalty that put Fulham one-up on the night and 3-2 on aggregate and proving a constant menace for the Reading back line.