Marco Silva wants Fulham to continue their fine recent run of form in order to keep their fans dreaming.
The Portuguese coach has guided his side to eight wins in eleven matches since the winter break and the six league victories have lifted the Whites, amongst the favourites to go straight back down in the summer, to sixth in the Premier League table. Silva told his pre-match press conference ahead of tomorrow’s clash with Wolverhampton Wanderers at Craven Cottage:
“I am not the guy that dreams too much, I am ambitious – of course I am – but I think we are showing that on the pitch, our ambition and our desire. To dream is for our fans. For us it’s game by game and you have to go each game to prepare our players as best we can with full ambition to win the football match.
The mood is really good. We have a group of players that are really focused, as all the teams we need a good result to be confident, even more than the previous one. With good results and a good performance you can achieve it, but we always believe in ourselves, we know the competition we are facing but we know our quality as well.”
Fulham might well have to do without top goalscorer Aleksandar Mitrovic again against Wolves – although Silva was pleased to see the Serbian striker, who has scored eleven goals this season, taking a full part in training at Motspur Park this morning.
It will be difficult for him to be ready but we have some more time until tomorrow. Today he was on the pitch already outside and let’s see what the news will be for tomorrow. It will be difficult but the session this morning – it was good to see him outside the last few days, doing some specific work, so let’s see the reaction from today and tomorrow we are going to make a decision.”
