Marco Silva has reiterated that the squad strength at Fulham creates competition that can only boost the club’s promotion hopes.
The Fulham head coach believes that the quality at his disposal will be vital in the latter stages of a gruelling Championship season. During his pre-match press conference ahead of Reading’s visit to Craven Cottage, Silva downplayed any suggestion that Fulham’s fringe players may be frustrated by a lack of playing time.
“I don’t know why Joe [Bryan] has to be frustrated, or [Neeskens] Kebano has to be frustrated or Marek [Rodak], Alfie [Mawson] or any of the others. As a manager, I see things in a different way. You can’t have just one player for each position if you want to get better every day.
Silva stated that he feels the battle between Bryan, who started in Wednesday’s win over Birmingham, and American international Antonee Robinson for the starting left-back berth is pretty evenly matched.
“For Joe to grow he needs someone to push him, and for Jedi to grow you need someone who is able to compete as well. I don’t see big, big differences between Joe and Jedi. And remember the away win at Millwall was one of our best performances of the season.”
I agree there is case for both Robinson and Bryan. Robinson is quickly and the better tackler . Bryan has better distribution and is more likely to score. Mitro feeds off his crosses. Both can be prone to defensive errors and better going forward. My slight preference is Bryan and I hope he plays today, then play Robinson against Leeds on Tuesday. Kebano is infinitely better than Cavalerio., who is fine only as a late substitution because of his pace. I have been champing at the bit most of the season for Rodak to play in goal, but that is one change, for whatever reason, I do not think Silva will make
The cracks are starting to show now and our defence is not good enough for the premiership and our finishing was really woeful today why wasn’t Muniz on from the start instead of Bobby Reid and to round off a bad day Bournemouth and Parker are sitting on top of the league.