Antonee Robinson praised Fulham’s substitutes for securing their first top flight double over Newcastle United in sixteen years.

Andreas Pereira and Rodrigo Muniz combined to conjure up the winner for the Whites eight minutes from time at St. James’ Park – making it the eleventh time that one of Marco Silva’s substitutes has scored a Premier League goal this season. American international Robinson told Match of the Day:

“The lads coming on and getting scoring has been the story of our season. It’s not just the starting eleven, it’s the whole squad fighting for places. The fact that everyone keeps the belief and there is so much contribution from the bench just shows we are together as a unit and working for each other.”

Full back Robinson also offered an insight into the discussion in the Fulham changing room at half time, whilst subtly suggesting that his team-mates weren’t as bad as Martin Fisher made out on Match of the Day:

“We were up against it in the first half, they were obviously full of confidence, but we we were still putting things together and it wasn’t really falling for us. We came in at half time and said: ‘Don’t concede and we are going to get chances’. Tactically, it was all the same. We just said: ‘If we don’t concede, we can go on and win the game’. The gaffer didn’t have a big go at us, he just said: ‘Go out, win your battles and you can win the game. We said that we needed to be more physical and not lose tackles. They started to get pinned back a little bit and, after we got the goal, we just carried on with our game plan.”