A shattered Marco Silva bemoaned Fulham’s failure to impose themselves on their FA Cup quarter-final with Crystal Palace as the Eagles eased to a 3-0 win at Craven Cottage this afternoon.

The Fulham head coach couldn’t hide his frustration that the Whites fell to a similar defeat to the one they suffered against Oliver Glasner’s side in the Premier League meeting last month. Speaking to ITV after the final whistle, Silva said:

“It was one game in the first 25 minutes of the match. We completely dominated and we had three or four dangerous moments around their goal. We should have scored in those moments. You need to be ruthless and clinical. They are solid and compact. They set nine players around their box every single time and when we are able to create, we have to score. We didn’t and we were not strong in both ends this afternoon.”

Silva expressed some surprise that Adam Wharton escaped a second yellow card after lashing at Rodrigo Muniz when the score was 0-0.

“For me it is clear, it’s a second yellow card but we are used to these kind of situations. I prefer to say we are unlucky but it has been a long story with us. Of course VAR cannot overturn this decision but you have many eyes inside the pitch, the linesman has all the angles to see it, the fourth official.

It is a clear second yellow card, definitely. It would have a massive impact on the game but against us it is always more difficult to see. We have been unlucky in these type of situations and let’s hope it will be balanced [out] at the end of the season.”