Marco Silva slammed a lack of refereeing consistency after Fulham were well beaten by Newcastle United at Craven Cottage this afternoon following Nathaniel Chalobah’s red card for a wild challenge on Sean Longstaff.
The England international was dismissed following a VAR review of his tackle and Silva bemoaned the inconsistency of the televised reviews during his post match press conference. The Fulham head coach said:
“We had a game until the sixth or eighth minute after that it was a completely different game. It was a harsh tackle from Nathaniel in that moment. The referee was clear, for him [it was] a yellow card, he told me
“Of course after the decision from Mike Dean, it changed everything completely. So long time to take one decision like that and to advise the referee [to change his mind] for me is strange. Of course it was a harsh tackle but I’m 100 percent sure I haven’t seen consistency in these types of situations. I’m 100 percent sure that in the next few weeks we will see more tackles like that one and they’ll be a yellow card. That is tough for us to understand.
Where is the consistency in these types of decisions? It makes things easier for Newcastle definitely, even so, I think our first half after the red card was not at the level it should be. It was a strange afternoon for all the situations, the red card, the decisions from Mike Dean as well that I know will not be the same in the future.”
Forget chaloba he is a waste of space.
BUT, we were humped good and true, don’t make excuses or blame anything but ourselves, take it on the chin. Stand tall stand proud and go again, but do not be pathetic and whinge.
Of course Silva is right about the lack of consistency but-come on -that was a red card any day of the week.
Pathetic decision by a pathetic player who had proved time and again in the Championship that he wasn’t good enough so why Silva expected him to be better in the Premiership is beyond me.
Unfortunately, despite the number of signings, this game just highlighted the lack of quality in depth that we have. At full strength we can give a lot of teams a hard time but, with one or two key players missing, we will struggle.
I mean, Josh Onomah back on the bench after being FINALLY told he wasn’t part of Silva’s plans? Next thing you know we will be recalling Knockaert and Cavaleiro.
Sorry Marco but a poor team selection. Chalabo is a total waste of space he has probably had 10 minutes when he has a overall total of a decent 10 minutes in all the matches has played. I never want to see him wearing the Fulham shirt again. Why not start with Cairney. Both full backs who are apparently full internations were terrible. Move on to the next match and hopefully some of our injured players will be fit, as their deputies are not good enough.I thought Kebano add ed something when he was introduced far too late.Also both Leno and Bobby Decova Reed who was everywhere deserve praise
I don’t understand why Silva played Chalobah instead of Cairny ,or why James instead of Kebano ,We also need to cut out getting so many yellow cards as we haven’t got the players good enough to replace Palhina who is probably going to get more yellow cards due to his style of play , we probably still need a couple of good players come January.
Chalobah and Mbabu should never wear a Fulham shirt again. We are woefully short of quality back up players. Hopefully Mitros injury is short term.
Chalboh on his past performances should never have been picked in the first place. It was a 100% red card offence. How can Mbabu be an international player with a number of caps. His attitude is wrong and we must have a better option in one of our younger players. All very being wise of the event. We should have started with Cairney and Kebano. Leno saved us from a much heavier defeat. I though Diòp did just about OK when he came on and he was infinitely better than either of our full backs, not that is saying much. Hopefully this is a just a blip and our manager needs to completely exclude Chalaobah and Mbubu from his future selections otherwise we can expect more days like this
Silva can’t blame VAR for the stupidity of Chalobah’s rash challenge. he should accept full responsibility for fielding that eleven. They did not inspire confidence in me nor the guys around me. After the dismissal Silva should introduced Diop at the expense of James. Well, the full backs , what can one say except they are crap. This is a result of Tony Khan’s slowness to recruit properly , that failure to recruit early on in the T/W, contributes to these problems .