Marco Silva bemoaned Fulham’s failure to take their chances as the Whites crashed out of the FA Cup at the fourth round stage following a 2-0 home defeat by Newcastle United.
Fulham created the clearer chances but Rodrigo Muniz couldn’t put Silva’s side ahead – and the visitors converted two set-pieces to end their poor run of form and reach the fifth round. Sean Longstaff controversially opened the scoring six minutes before half time before former Fulham centre back Dan Burn made it two just after the hour mark.
Silva told his post-match press conference:
“The stats show we were the dominant team on the pitch, we started on the front foot, we were closer to scoring goals and creating chances. But you have to be ruthless, clinical in the final third, make the right decisions. We deserved more from the game. We tried, were more dominant, created more chances. But we lost because of our fault. We’re not in the next round because we made mistakes that teams of this level will punish you for.”
The Fulham head coach confirmed that Harry Wilson, who was forced off with a shoulder injury, will be assessed by the club’s medical team in the coming days.
“His shoulder doesn’t look good, but we have to wait some more hours, days probably. [After a few] more exams, it’s going to be more clear for us to give you the right feedback.”
Need help up front !! A winger and a striker before Thursday !!!.
Here we go again. Excuses, excuses, excuses.
We are out of yet another cup because the team selected did not have a hope in hell of beating a Newcastle team who, IMO, are nowhere near as good as people think they are but, nonetheless, fielded their STRONGEST possible team because, according to their manager: “It was our last chance of silverware so we gave it everything”.
In comparison, Marco Silva, in his wisdom, decided that OUR better players should be left out after their less than brilliant exertions against Liverpool.
Unfortunately, the players who DID come in just do not have the quality that can see them replace normal first choices with any chance of success.
To be fair, Muniz had a couple of good moments in the first half but virtually disappeared after that.
Lukic did what Lukic does; not too many bad things and not too many good things. Just not much.
It was the USUAL suspects who let us down, yet again.
Decordova Reid who proved his worth as a utility player by being equally as useless on the left wing as he usually is on the right.
Unfortunately, because of Wilson’s injury, almost certainly, his run in the team will continue against Everton.
Pereira, I have run out of words for this plonker. He ran half the length of the pitch in a brilliant run in the first half but then did to Decordova Reid what had been done to him at Anfield, two weeks ago, and decided to shoot instead of pass. Like, we wouldn’t really mind if he could just hit the bloody target.
Robinson, so many passes and crosses going astray.
How come these three, who all played against Liverpool, were deemed okay to start when our better players weren’t?
Anyway, no doubt, I will be deemed as being negative again-when I am simply telling the truth that a lot of fans don’t want to hear.
It’s early days but, with Nigeria progressing, Bassey and Iwobi won’t be back anytime soon and we need a win against Everton. If we lose and, God forbid, lose again at Burnley (and where will the goals come from to win?) we will be bang in trouble.
I was surprised we started such a weakened side but heh we’ve had a lot of games, Marco knows the state of the players and the Prem is the priority. So Charles I think that’s a little tough.
On the other side I agree with you, BDR is a squad player at best. Without pace or strength or trickery then you shouldn’t be a Prem winger. The occasional goal keeps him around. But if truth be known our squad is so tight, that with the odd injury, competition for places doesn’t really exist. What competition do Muniz and Vinny provide? Pereira has been a passenger for too long. The only option I see there as I mentioned before is play TC there and then HR can play alongside Palhinia.
We all know the situation, we have a top class manager, playing great football with an aging squad and virtually nothing upfront. If looking at that game we don’t sign a striker this week then I’m lost as to what’s going on. We must be broke or clueless.
I totally agree with every thing Charles has said he couldn’t have put it any better, I would just like to add that Marco cost us any chance of winning with the team he selected, resting players who were tired from the last game is a bloody joke, they are supposed to be fit and are being paid big money to sit on their arses, while we supporters are expected to pay over the top prices to watch this rubbish. Marco can moan and make all the excuses he likes but he picked that team, We need new signing’s and quick or we are heading for a relegation fight once again.