Marco Silva felt Fulham were fully deserving of their League Cup win over Tottenham Hotspur at Craven Cottage this evening – even if they had to secure a spot in the third round draw on penalties.
The Fulham head coach praised his side’s attacking approach, which saw Spurs pressed back from the outset, and their character to respond after conceding an equaliser whilst Kenny Tete was off the pitch trying to find a new boot.
He told his post-match press conference:
“The best team won. What’s clear is from the first minute we were on the front foot. That was the plan and the players executed it. We pressed them really high and didn’t let them set. That was one of the keys for us throughout the game to give us the confidence we needed. During the 97 minutes we were the team with more chances to score, we played better and it was deserved.
Silva also insisted that the Whites would learn lessons from Tete’s dash to the dressing room which left the hosts at a numerical disadvantage.
In the future we are going to approach this in a different way because we gave the opposition an opportunity against 10 men for two or three minutes. It is the first and last time that this is going to happen to us. The referee should do what he did, which is to let the game go on, but we need to approach it in a different way.
Now the players know what they should do in that moment. It was not the best and we are going to talk about it more because we have conceded a goal, but even if we had not, with more maturity we will do it in a different way.”
