Marco Silva was delighted that Fulham demonstrated their ‘winning mentality’ with a narrow win at Hull City this afternoon in treacherous conditions.
The league leaders were made to work hard by a determined Hull side and they had to wait until just before the hour mark for Aleksandar Mitrovic to break the deadlock – the in-form Serbian forward scoring his 31st goal of the season, to draw level with Ivan Toney’s Championship record mark.
The Fulham boss shared his pleasure at extending his side’s unbeaten run on the road to eight matches with FFCTV after the final whistle:
“Another three points – really important again. I have to congratulate the boys again. It was a tough match, a tough pitch, like we expected. We knew that it was important for us to start quickly in the game and we did. I think in the first 15 minutes we did really well, we pushed them back. We didn’t give a chance for them to counter attack. Unfortunately, we didn’t score and they started to believe. They have pace in their attack line and they are quite direct. They caused us problems.
We had three big chances in the first chance with Harry – where we could score. We didn’t lose our focus, we kept calm in the game and we started well in the second half. We scored an important goal – a very good delivery from Neco [Williams] and a fantastic finish from Mitro. We controlled the game well until the end of the match. Keeping the clean sheet was important for us as well.
I’m really happy. It was always tough come here in this weather, with this pitch as well. They wanted to react to the two defeats they had in the last two games. I’m really pleased for our players. These type of games show their winning mentality. I asked them for it before the match and they proved again they’ve got it.”
