Marco Silva slammed his Fulham side for completely switching off in the second half as Bournemouth came from behind to claim a crucial three points at Dean Court this afternoon.
The Whites looked in complete command when Andreas Pereira finished a flowing move to put them in front on sixteen minutes, but a sloppy start to the second half was compounded by a wonderful leveller from Cherries’ substitute Marcus Tavernier before Dominic Solanke stabbed home the winner with ten minutes to go.
A furious Silva told FFCTV after the final whistle:
“Everything went wrong [in the second half] – that is the answer. We had a good week to prepare, even without players because of internationals. We prepared well, the plan was clear and our first half showed that. The players stuck with the plan. They showed the courage, the braveness and the quality to do it. The first half was so good, it was a lack of killer instinct. When you are so much better than the other time, we should try more and show more desire to score a second goal to give us more confidence and make them more uncomfortable in that moment.
In the second half, we prepared for a reaction – even with the two changes that we saw they were going to do – and we started by completing switching off. At this level, you cannot do ten or fifteen minutes like we did. Everytime we won the ball, we gave it away. We didn’t give the value that we normally do to the ball. We didn’t take good questions. When these type of things happen, they start to believe. They start to play around our box every time and a great finish from Tavernier to equalise, but even before they had a big chance.
After that moment, they get the momentum. We balanced the game a little bit more, but we were not ourselves. We are punished by the way we started the second half, we completely switch off, and the second goal is a good example. The way we were sloppy in that moment: we were punished by that.”
Very true we seem to think 45 minutes is enough, either our players are not fit enough for 90 minutes or they are too lazy, they were crap and if they keep playing like this we will be lucky to get any more points,what is wrong with them do they think it’s job done we are safe if so they have no ambitions to get in the euro places and if that’s the case we need a good shake up this summer.
I don’t disagree with the mangers comment, however, he should have changed at halftime, H Reed & De Cordova Reid, or perhaps as soon as the second half started, anyone could see that they wanted to win much more than our players.
Looks like they are on holidays already.!!.Plus ,the depth is not there too.Need another striker here !! VINIUS IS NOT THE ANSWER HERE !@.
Robinson has been aol lately. Standing around with ball going in our net. Is there an alernative?
With no disrespect to our travelling fans yesterday, I am going to give the squad a bit of latitude. If there is a narrative flying around about being on the beach, i actually think, they have earned that right with the performances thus far.
When you take into consideration that some of our squad participated in the World Cup and that there would be a natural physiological drop off at some point, coupled with the fact that our squad hasn’t got enough quality in that it can replace like-for-like in certain positions, could explain why there is a drop in performance. I think we should be celebrating the fact that we are actually staying up this season which has given the club a chance to consolidate our position in the premier league.
Regarding what Mitro did at Manchester United; what he did was totally out of order but the media and other clubs citing honesty and integrity and asking for mitro to be given a ten match ban smacks of rank hypocrisy to me. Some are even blaming him for the behaviour of children towards referees, I thought that was the responsibility of parents to keep their children in line!
We all know Fulham are very vulnerable after H/T break, we’ve seen it too often. They come out half asleep and again B’mouth caught us napping like they have done at the Cottage. What do they put in their H/T drinks? sleeping pills. You can’t take liberties with desperate sides like B’mouth who are fighting for survival.
@ Denis and Martin.
I agree with you both.
@Dan if they were tired from travel & schedule, then Robinson and D.Reid should have been been on the bench for Soares and James?
I think DJ was at the World Cup with Wales, as for CS I think he has played predominantly as a right wing back throughout his career. I am no apologist for the team @kozy but I just feel a little bit of perspective is needed. I do however feel at times that the team could be more direct with their passing rather then allow the opposition to push up on us.