Fulham vs. Crystal Palace

Fulham hosts Crystal Palace with kickoff at 10am EST on Peacock.

After two big league wins versus Newcastle and Nottingham Forest, fans are naturally inclined to start thinking again about a European spot. If that is going to happen Fulham must win games like this against lower half teams at home. Sadly, Fulham has played their worst against those lower teams. But is Palace even worthy of that label of a lower team? Palace has the same number of points as Fulham in 2025, they haven't lost on the road since October, and they are getting past injuries that plagued them back when Fulham visited Selhurst Park. With all of that, I'm thinking Fulham with have a disappointing draw that fails to live up to the promise shown against Forest.

Fulham will still be Wilson and Tete. Unfortunately Nelson picked up another injury while returning to training from his previous injury and is likely done for the season. Good thing they grabbed Willian!

 

HT..down 0-1. The ref has been calling it one way. Refs all
make mistakes, but his attitude and defiance after the obvious Smith-Rowe foul he missed hurt us. Bassey was fouled twice on the turnover that led to the corner that led to the goal.

That said, Palace were the better side, Marco will need to make some adjustments.

EDIT: Lucky to have one goal called back for offsides, Palace deserved their second. Smith-Rowe’d injury looks like he might be out for awhile…bad day at the office thus far and haven’t been this happy to have to go do errands in awhile.

 

It was a rough day at the office. I'm struggling to find positives.

 

None to be had.

As good as Fulham was last week they were just as bad this week. Forest might have been Fulham's best performance of the season and this might have been the worst. All those perfect crosses turned to garbage this week from Traore. Iwobi seemed to have no idea where his teammates were on the pitch. Andersen tried too hard to make up for poor defending on his own-goal with way too many long passes. Palace was better defensively than Forest last week, but most of this came down to really poor execution from Fulham.

 

Poor passing. Poor decision making. Poor execution. Poor speed. Poor all around. This is one to forget as quickly as possible.

I want to be mad at the ref but honestly, for as bad and inconsistent as he was, Fulham were worse. I'm not going to think about this one anymore. (As Belichick would say) On to Wolves...