De Cordova-Reid declares there’s ‘room for improvement’

Matchwinner Bobby De Cordova-Reid was candid enough to admit Fulham have plenty to improve upon after scrapping to an opening day victory at Everton.

The Jamaican international stepped off the substitutes bench to prod home the winner at Goodison Park, but agreed with Marco Silva’s assessment that Fulham’s showing was well below their usual standard.

“It’s always nice to start with three points. We’ll continue to build, we’ve still got a lot of room for improvement, and we’ll get on the training pitch and we’ll do that. It’s always nice to get three points away at Goodison Park. The lads worked really hard in difficult conditions. [Everton] were really at it and we weathered the storm, and thankfully we got the goal.

We understand that with Sean Dyche’s teams they’re going to be right on it, high energy, and we have to weather the storm. And we did so, and we got our own chance and we scored it, so we’re really pleased with it, and we’ll continue to build.”