Marco Silva knows Fulham will have to be at their very best to take all three points from St. Mary’s this weekend with Southampton scrapping for their lives at the foot of the Premier League table.
The Saints need to win on Saturday in order to avoid relegation and the Fulham head coach believes that will motivate both the home fans and a squad that has struggled to string together results of late. He told his pre-match press conference at Motspur Park this afternoon:
“They are going to give everything they can, that is clear for me. They are at the bottom, they have been having a tough season. Even if they have not achieved good results in the last few games, they are always fighting, they were leading the score in some games as well.
Home and away they have been showing the fight and the will to go on to match all the opposition sides, and with us it will be the same. t’s one of the last chances for them and they are going to put everything inside [the pitch], I’m 100 per cent sure about it, and we have to be at our best.
Away from home we have to show the personality and the character to face them, to play our game, even if the atmosphere will be something different than the previous games, we cannot control the situation, we can control ourselves. And this is what we have to do.”
