Marco Silva says his Fulham side have already moved on from the disappointment of Wednesday night’s League Cup semi-final defeat by Liverpool – insisting the Whites have plenty to play for.
The Cottagers face Newcastle United at Craven Cottage tomorrow night and Silva told his pre-match press conference this afternoon that his players were ‘motivated to go again’.
“If you want to have the chance to share these type of moments at the Cottage with our fans like we did last Wednesday, where the atmosphere was a great one, we have to go again and we have to fight for the next game with the same braveness, the same attitude, that we did last one.
The day after, straightaway we started to prepare for Newcastle and, okay, the faces and the mood were not the best, but our obligation is to change quickly to the right mindset. We had good conversations with the players about it. If you don’t achieve won’t you wanted, f course it’s always tough. But the best way for us to be again in this type of stage, is to do our job well in the FA Cup, and this is the reality. The season is far from over for us. We have so many games, so many things to fight for.”
Silva poured cold water on the idea that this might be a good time to play Newcastle, whose only victory in their last eight games was against Fulham at St. James’ Park in December.
“It has been tough for them the last four or five games in the Premier League, but you know they are Newcastle, they have enough quality to change it quick. They have had enough time to prepare this game, looking for all the details from the last games when they haven’t achieved the good results, and we expect a really strong side.”
And we need to avoid getting relegated!
We have improved just by getting to semi finals shows that let’s hope we can go on from hear and we are not a push over anymore players like Paulinho can see this so a few more proven signings this window can move us on further
Why isn’t Tete being picked ahead of Castagnea I don’t understand it he should be our number one right back.
Yeah Totally agree Tête must start ahead of Castaneda always and why are we not looking at CBs or are we going to wait till Ream finally conks out Bassey is a must when he comes back also what happening about Andre,Chalabah,Broja etc or is it speculation as always
Yeah Totally agree Tête must start ahead of Castaneda always and why are we not looking at CBs or are we going to wait till Ream finally conks out Bassey is a must when he comes back also what happening about Andre,Chalabah,Broja etc or is it speculation as always Silva defineately got his favourites
CASTAGNE!