Marco Silva is confident that Fulham can bounce back after being hit for four by Wolverhampton Wanderers at Craven Cottage yesterday.
The Whites’ post-international break hoodoo continued as they meekly surrendered the line provided by Alex Iwobi’s excellent first half strike to a rampant Wolves side inspired by the excellence of their brilliant Brazilian Matheus Cunha. Silva’s side face four formidable fixtures in December starting with a trip to Tottenham Hotspur next Sunday, before home games against Brighton and Hove Albion and Arsenal are followed by a visit to Anfield to face league leaders Liverpool.
Silva said:
“It is difficult to accept the first two goals because we can do so much better defensively. You can’t concede the way we conceded the equaliser. It was great from a top, top player, but it was different from our perspective. We can’t just be looking at the score. The two goals when we were [down to] ten men didn’t reflect the whole game.
We have to react – it’s not the first time that we are going to react and I really believe we have all the conditions to do it. We are going to analyse the game, to understand why things happened, and make the players understand too.”
Yes, we’re good at reacting. Just a shame that we have to.
It’s the curse of being a Fulham supporter, unfortunately. The team builds up our hopes-then crushes us with the type of performance that we saw against Wolves.
Still, being a total Fulham addict, and having watched Spurs’ dire performance vs Ipswich, I’m pretty confident that we can go there and come away with something-as long as Berge is back and Andersen’s injury is not serious.
Talking of his injury, I remember -in those far off, dark days BEFORE substitutes were allowed -Stan Brown was badly injured. But, there was no way that he was allowed to come off. The poor sod, who could barely stand, let alone walk or kick a ball, was stuck on the left wing for the duration, ensuring that the opposition did not have that advantage of playing against ten men.
How things have changed in these “modern times”.
Andersen was coming off -no matter what. In fact, despite his injury, he WALKED off. Then, in another sign of the advances in sports medicine, his injured leg was wrapped in, what appeared to be, several rolls of plastic, kitchen foil -before he WALKED back to the dressing room at the final whistle.
Amazing! Technology, these days. I can’t keep pace!
Why is it we always blow it when we have a chance of getting into the top six , and why do we keep losing to teams near the bottom Our players should be ashamed of themselves after that pathetic performance, it’s time to drop a few and give other squad players a chance, also Silva made a big mistake by bringing on our 5th sub and we then had to play with 10 men when Andersen went off injured. We could do with a good striker in the winter transfer window someone like Cuhna would be good.
I don’t think wholesale changes are the answer. The team Saturday was basically the same team that totally dominated against Brentford and Palace. Didn’t notice any complaints then. I think the problem against Wolves was atitude. We were completely in control for the first half hour until we went to sleep and conceeded a preventable equaliser. Wolves grew in beleif and a number of our players disappeared from the game. I won’t critisise Marco for using all the subs, he needed to do something to try and wrestle back the initiative. The Andersen injury was unfortunate and we can all be wise after the event.
The one change I would make is the one everyone is crying out for. Pereira must go. Can’t tackle, never seen him win a header, easy to knock off the ball, lost the ability to pass and most importantly can’t take a set piece or score a penalty. So far this season 12 matches, we’ve had 70 corners and not come close to scoring,
Peirera is indeed an unwanted passenger. Do players attitudes yo-yo up and down from match to match? Don’t you think that heads drop and attitudes crumble when poor decisions are made? First wrong decision each week Peirera is in the starting line up. Confidence seems to be a transient quality, how can performance fluctuate across the whole squad so significantly from game to game? Wish someone knew the answer. It isn’t Marco that’s for sure. His after match summaries are roughly the same each week relative to the result. Consistency is everything, therefore a collective state of mind maybe the issue.
I read that it was nearer 100 than 70. Probably not, but it’s a lot. 🙁
Agree Pereira must Go. Start with both Lukic and Berge in midfield. Purchase a striker in January, Give the captaincy to an outfield player