london fulham grabbed a gritty 00 draw against brighton hove albion on wednesday that lifted them out of the premier leagues bottom three but they needed help from the video assistant referee var who disallowed a secondhalf goal for the visitorsafter a dull first half brighton launched an early secondhalf onslaught and adam lallana thought he had scored his first goal for the club within minutes of the restart but it was chalked off after a var review for a seemingly innocuous handball by danny welbeckbrighton won a number of corners as they switched between longer balls in behind the defence and quickshort passing moves down the wings with the home side seemingly unable to hold on to possessionlewis dunk squeezed a header just wide and fellow defender adam webster sent another header against the underside of the crossbar before the fulham defence finally started snuffing out their attacksthough the home side struggled to create many decent chances brighton keeper robert sanchez pulled off some fine saves to keep his goal intact but the visitors could not convert their dominance into goals and the game ended scorelessthe clean sheet was fulhams first since they beat west bromwich albion on nov 2in large parts this season we have not given ourselves a platform and have been chasing games down a clean sheet is massive for us fulham manager scott parker told the bbcfulham edged out of the relegation zone and up to 17th spot in the table on nine points after 13 games ahead of burnley who have two matches in hand on goal difference brighton are 16th on 11 points