Fulham at Cardiff City

This one is going to be a bellweather for the remainder of this season. Cardiff are in good form under the designated manager that is Neil Warnock. We will continue our sparkling away form and grind out another critical 3 points? Or we will succumb to a fellow mid table team 7 points behind us? We'll see our old friend Jazz Richards again, along with some scorers who have bitten us in the past, Rickie Lambert and Junior Hoilett. Still, I like our chances for at least a draw, perhaps some late match heroics from somebody to snatch up all the points. We're overdue for some good luck. And pray Kalas stats healthy and on the pitch.

 

Having three wins in a row is nice, but let's face it, Wigan, Nottingham Forest, and Bristol City are three teams we should certainly beat this season. The next three matches will give us a true measure of how we are likely to finish. We face Cardiff who is on a hot streak and think victory over Fulham is the next step toward a playoff spot, Preston who is just behind us, and Leeds who are just in front of us. After these matches we could find ourselves clinging to a playoff spot or consoling ourselves that a mid-table finish wouldn't be so bad after the last three years.

 

If offered, I'd take a point and happily call it a day.

 

Lambert out with a bad back. And Rhys Healey with a knee. They've still got plenty of weapons, though. And we've got everybody available.

 

Martin absent...

https://mobile.twitter.com/FulhamFC/status/835489585941602305

 

Will he bring a note signed by Steve McClaren to the next practice?

EDIT: 2-2 Draw and picked up a point on 6th place

 

Johansen gifted them the first and there isn't enough lead up on the video, but it looks like Ream got burned on the second. Either team could have had at least one more too. In the end though, I'll take the point.

 

From the clip it looks like Button had a good match.

 

Yeah, Button almost stopped the first one, even though he had no business getting a hand on it. Too much kamikaze defending from us. They had several point blank chances that better teams would have converted. We had more, too, though not as close. Lucky to get away from this one with a point. Oh, and Tom Cairney's a pretty darn good footballer.

 

Norwich drew with Ipswich, which keeps them behind us - by just a point.

From the highlights it seems like it could have been 5-2 either way. Both teams were fortunate to get a draw. However with 72% possession we should be winning, but that's how a couple of our matches have gone. It appears Cardiff had a lot of success just driving up the middle and trying to score as soon as they got the ball. I worry what the scoreline would be if possession was 50-50.