Fulham Away to Bristol City

Fulham travel 120 miles straight west to Bristol to take on the Robins of Bristol City FC. The hosts have been playing much better football of late and have escaped the bottom of the table to move up to 20th. The only loss they've endured out of their last 5 matches was a 2-1 loss to league leaders Brighton when good ol' Bobby Zamora scored a late winner.

BCFC is coming off their big Derby match with Cardiff on Monday, so hopefully they'll be a little flat. Add in it's a short week for them and it's a good opportunity to get a result. Honestly there isn't a score I'd be surprised by other than a blowout by either team, so going with a 1-1 draw.

 

We laid an egg after QPR. On the back of that great 2nd half v Reading, hopefully we turn that around. It is on the road though, so a draw is a good bet.

 

Since there are no winnable games "on paper" in this league, I'm gonna hope for some sort of continuation of the performance we saw in the second half (minus Reading's second goal) this past Saturday. If we can do that, then I think we'll win.

 

Team News: http://www.fulhamfc.com/news/2015/october/29/team-news

Looks like just Richards out, couple weeks with a calf. Given that news, I'll take:

 

I like Don's optimism and will go with a 2-1 win getting 9 pts and a result from every game in October.

 

Really happy to see on the Offal that we've sold out our away allotment, whenever we have that big of away support we tend to play well.

 

COYW! I will keep my cursed self away from the chat and help obtain all 3 points.

 

Happy Halloween! I'm wearing my Tim Ream costume for today's match, but no one around here seems to recognize who I am. Maybe I need to get a strawberry blonde wig.

 

0-4 at the half. The Moose is Loose!!!!

 

Undefeated in October and the most prolific goal scoring team in the Championship! I like the direction this team is headed. COYW! Keep going up the table!

 

OVERALLHOMEAWAY
POSTEAMPWDLFAWDLFAWDLFAGDPTS
1Brighton & Hove Albion14860191152083340118830
2Hull City14842218520133322851328
3Burnley14842201351113733176728
4Middlesbrough14833239511142322971427
5Derby County147612110331126430941127
6Birmingham City147341915313910421105424
7Reading146532113331933221210823
8Sheffield Wednesday14653191642112823278323
9Cardiff City1457215114218415177422
10Fulham14554262032213102321310620
11Brentford146262020313911313119020
12Queens Park Rangers1454522233311611214612-119
13Wolverhampton Wanderers1453620202239103131110018
14Ipswich Town14464162124197223714-518
15Blackburn Rovers14365141423274133710015
16Huddersfield Town143561418232107124411-414
17Nottingham Forest1435611151336822357-414
18Leeds United14275121903441024189-713
19Preston North End1326510130424622367-312
20Milton Keynes Dons143291221205610124611-911
21Bristol City142571626124915133711-1011
22Charlton Athletic142481124223812025312-1310
23Bolton Wanderers13166102015166015414-109
24Rotherham United142391527124713115814-129

• P: GAMES PLAYED
• W: WINS
• D: DRAWS
• L: LOSSES
• F: GOALS FOR
• A: GOALS AGAINST
• GD: GOAL DIFFERENCE

 

The lads got your message apparently, one half was all you needed. Excellent follow up performance to the Reading comeback. Can we string a few more together?

Not signing a striker in the summer has been a blessing in disguise (along w Smith's injury). Dembele is really coming along.

 

http://sportyhighlights.com/bristol-vs-fulham-1-4-highlights/

 

Highlights below. Gentleman Jim, love him dearly, did not give Husband enough credit. On the first goal it was Husband, and not Fredericks, breaking down the left side on the assist. Then Husband on a threatening charge won the free kick that led to McCormack's goal. Then again Husband breaks down the left side and feeds Tunnicliffe beautifully for his goal. I'd making him my Man of the Match


Full match:

 

As I said in last weeks Reading thread. I'll take those 3 points. I'll further take being 10th in the table being only 4pts out of the playoffs and a +6 in GD.

Think it's the second time this year we have back to back wins

 

Those goals were beautiful. Can we keep playing like this, please?

 

Can we keep playing Bristol City, please. Atrocious defending on the 2nd goal & what in the blue hell was their keeper doing on the 3rd & 4th goals?!? Kudos to our boys for capitalizing & putting them under pressure, but if the shoe is on the other foot, we're screaming for Kit's head on a pike and blasting the players' defending.

Also, how on Earth does Jim mistake Husband for Fredericks?

And props to Kit for the change in formation/tactics. Going to 3-5-2 worked brilliantly as Husband & Fredericks playing as wing backs gave us width & caused them all sorts of problems.