DERBY County piled more misery on Fulham by thrashing them 5-1 at the iPro Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
The Rams made it seven points from a possible 12 in the Championship so far with an emphatic victory.
Meanwhile, it is now four defeat out of four for Fulham following their relegation from the Premier League.
Jamie Ward's 23rd-minute strike put Steve McClaren's men ahead at the break but former England international Scott Parker levelled for the Cottagers early in the second half.
Derby responded in style, though, and goals from Craig Bryson, Chris Martin (2) and Simon Dawkins saw the hosts coast home.
The Rams had the better of the opening period and might have scored inside three minutes.
Ward and Cyrus Christie combined on the right and the latter crossed to the back post, where the unmarked Johnny Russell smashed a volley narrowly over the bar.
A couple of minutes later, Parker found Cauley Woodrow in space and he advanced to the edge of the area before drilling a low shot wide.
A deflected Kostas Stafylidis cross in the 12th minute proved awkward but Lee Grant gratefully collected the ball, via a touch from Richard Keogh.
At the other end, Christie's ball in from the right was cleared straight back to him and his left-foot curler was straight at keeper Jesse Joronen.
Bryson's cross from the left was heading for Martin in the middle but Tim Hoogland made a crucial intervention to turn the ball behind.
But Derby made the breakthrough midway through the half.
Following a throw on the right, Christie found Russell, who bent in a left-foot cross to the near post, where Ward ghosted in to help a volley past Joronen from eight yards out.
Moments after the restart, Russell tested Joronen from distance but Derby were unable to add to their lead.
The closest Fulham came to an equaliser was in the 37th minute, when big-money summer signing Ross McCormack tried an audacious lob from inside his own half.
It was heading for the top corner but Grant was alert and retreated to his line to keep it out.
Derby went looking for a second goal after the interval.
Keogh headed Ward's cross over the bar, before Russell blazed too high from an angle after being picked out by Jeff Hendrick.
The Rams were stunned by an equaliser in the 54th minute, though.
McCormack's free kick hit the wall but he pounced on the loose ball and crossed for Tim Hoogland. He laid off to Parker, who beat Grant with a low first-time shot from 15 yards.
This stung Derby back into life and they almost regained the lead within two minutes.
Hendrick's cross from the right evaded Bryson and the keeper but Martin, at full stretch, could not keep the ball down in front of an unguarded net.
McCormack tested Grant again from distance - before Derby went up the other end and scored in the 61st minute.
Another Hendrick's cross from the right found Russell beyond the far post and he unselfishly centred on the full for Bryson, who volleyed past Joronen from 12 yards.
The celebrations had barely died down when the home side added a third.
Martin collected a ball to feet from Christie, turned and held off his man inside the area and fired a low left-foot shot into the bottom corner.
Martin could have had another but headed just wide from Ward's ball in.
But Derby were not done - and finished the game with two late goals.
First, Will Hughes split the defence to release fellow sub Dawkins and though his shot came back off a post, Martin was there to convert the rebound.
Then, straight from the restart, Derby won possession and, once more, Hughes played in Dawkins, who drilled a low angled shot in off the post.
DERBY COUNTY: Grant, Christie, Keogh, Buxton, Forsyth, Eustace, Hendrick, Bryson (Hughes, 84), Ward (Best, 89), Russell (Dawkins, 83), Martin. Other subs: Roos (gk), L Naylor, Whitbread, Mascarell.
FULHAM: Joronen, Hoogland (Voser, 67), Bodurov, Burgess, Kavanagh, Roberts (Eisfeld, 80), Parker, Stafylidis (Kacaniklic, 60), Williams, McCormack, Woodrow. Other subs: Bettinelli (gk), Hutchinson, Hyndman, Dembele.
REFEREE: O Langford (West Midlands).
ATTENDANCE: 26,577.
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