Antonee Robinson admitted Crystal Palace deserved their victory at Craven Cottage yesterday – and that Fulham need to respond quickly with Tuesday night’s trip to Wolverhampton Wanderers an ideal opportunity to put things right.
The American left back, who once again captained the side, was disappointed with the Whites’ meek surrender as well as Marco Silva’s side failure to register a single shot on target over the course of the ninety minutes.
“It’s a really tough one to take. Going up against a team like that, we know they’re going to come with physicality, aggression. If you concede first it’s going to be hard to get back from that. The chances weren’t really falling for us today – we were obviously trying, but no shots on target, so we didn’t really create anything clear-cut. We’re obviously looking to try and climb the table and get as many points as we can, so it was a good opportunity for us today, a winnable game, but in the end it does feel like we deserved to lose, and we’ve got to give credit to them [Crystal Palace].”
Robinson felt referee Rob Jones should have awarded a foul on Calvin Bassey or Joachim Andersen before the latter diverted Maxence Lacroix’s header into his own net for the opening goal and insisted Fulham were too easy to play through before the crucial second scored by Daniel Munoz.
“The first one is disappointing, but lads are getting pushed in the box, which isn’t given. In the lead up to it, for me, Calvin’s fouled. He’s been clamped by two people – whether one’s got the ball or not, the other one touches him which means it’s a foul, so that was a bit disappointing. Second goal was just naïve from us – a counter-attack, and lads have just got to make fouls, take a yellow card, just end the attack. We haven’t done, and they’ve punished us, which any team can in the Premier League.”
The left back now wants the Whites to hit back at Wolverhampton, who will head into Tuesday’s game at Molineux with confidence after an impressive win at AFC Bournemouth.
“We’ll dust ourselves down, we’ve obviously got the game Tuesday so we’re going to have to get our minds ready for that game now, recover and go again, have a positive reaction like we’ve had many times this year.”
Take a yellow card, yes but slow coach Cairney couldn’t catch a cold yet alone Mateta . Anyway he doesn’t want to get hurt in his final year with the Club. He’s thinking of his image and media career now, not football.
Sorry to say this about our captain, but it is evident that Cairney doesn’t cut it at this level any longer. Having said that, Robinson had a dreadful match as well. His defending was shambolic, Munoz ran him ragged.
Nice guy, Jedi. But he’s not a captain.
For some very strange reason, Silva does not consider the skipper role important as, from memory, we have had to endure: Cairney, Ream, Decordova Reid (mind boggles) Leno, Pereira (mind boggles even more) and now Robinson. Apologies to any I have neglected to name but, since I started playing football, the captain’s role has been sacrosanct. Players look up to the captain, take their lead from him, fear him. When things are going wrong on the pitch, he’s the guy the fans turn to.
I would suggest that Marco Silva does not want a strong personality in his squad, somebody likely to, occasionally, clash with him???
Who knows?
But, it’s a very longtime since we had a leader in our team and, IMO, it should be a priority come the summer.
I’d have Andersen as captain.
If you don’t try, it won’t happen, least ways not anything positive. You can single out individuals, but the truth is we only fielded half a team.
This is a very important issue as Charles as suggested Cairney was only the captain to stop him leaving remember the farcical penalties over the years Abou Kamara and Mitrovic and more recently Perreira and Jimenez the captain is meant to pull rank both those incidents Cairney should have stepped in sorted it the and only candidate is Andersen he captains his country I can’t see anybody else and supporters should be told before the season starts also name a suitable vice captain remember Kevin Macdonald getting the players in a circle and giving them the gee up Cairney did not do that even though he was captain
I don’t think there’s anyone else