Ramsbottom United crashed out of this season's League Cup competition with a lacklustre display.
It was the visitors who started off the brightest and on four minutes, Rob Crank scored a peach of a goal on his debut for the Rams.
Matt Ward broke forward on the wing and after beating his marker on the touchline, he delivered an inch perfect cross to Crank who made no mistake from six yards as he planted his header firmly past the stranded keeper.
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Two minutes later and a through ball almost found Crank, but last ditch defending prevented the young forward from going one-on-one with the keeper.
Chadderton, at this point, looked a very ordinary side and the Rams travelling supporters where waiting for the floodgates to open such was their play.
However, the home side gradually got back into the game and they should have equalised when the ball was played to the right and but for last ditch defending by Matt Eckersley, Martin Campbell would have been beaten.
Chadderton started to produce some neat flowing football but from promising positions they failed to test Campbell and time and time again the final shot was high and wide.
As for the Rams, they could not keep possession and far to often they gave the ball away with ease.
The second half was pretty much one way traffic with Chadderton causing the Rams all sorts of problems and when they finally equalised it came as no surprise.
A neat throughball found Cregan and with Campbell coming off his line, the ball was played around the keeper before being smashed low and hard into the empty net.
Within a minute of the restart, Chadderton took the lead when the Rams failed to clear a free-kick and Chadderton cashed in.
More chances fell to Chadderton but in the dying seconds of the game the Rams broke forwards.
The ball was played into the area and it was Eckersley who was first on hand to score.
Chadderton won the game in the last five minutes when a cross Campbell could only parry a cross and Fulham made no mistake from five yards.
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