Fulham at Wolverhampton

Fulham travel to Wolverhampton on Tuesday for a mid-week match. Kickoff is at 2:30 EST on Peacock.

Wolverhampton are on their best form of the season after winning against Villa and Bournemouth with a respectable 2-1 loss to Liverpool in between. Wolverhampton also had their best performance of the season when they spanked Fulham in a come-from-behind 4-1 win back in November. With Fulham showing no signs of changing their habit of giving up points to lower teams, expect nothing different on Tuesday.

The lineup poses some interesting choices for Silva. Does he decide to rest any key players, like Castagne, before the FA Cup match against Manchester United on Sunday? Or does he put his best squad forward in an effort to find some kind of success against lower teams - teams not unlike Manchester United? It is unclear if Smith Rowe will be healthy enough to play, but I would have benched him anyway in favor of Pereira.

 

I too am anxious about this one. Fingers crossed.

 

I just hope this helps to forget the Palace match (in a good way)

 

A chance to makeup for that poor performance on Saturday. The last they played Wolves was one of the stranger games we’ve played all season. We utterly dominated the first 30 min and could’ve been up 2-3 goals, and the first chance they got was a world class goal. Their 2nd goal was another beauty. We huffed and puffed before they finished it on the counter (added a stoppage time goal).

@MicahMan Looking at the upcoming schedule and it’s gonna be tough (at Brighton, Spurs, at Arse, Liverpool) to keep pace. We have a better chance of playing at Wembley than to make Europe. So I would prioritize ManU, but our injuries are mounting so I don’t know what kind of flexibility Marco has anyways. Andres is gonna get his opportunity to get out of the doghouse after his Marseille comments so we need him to take advantage.

 

A different look from Marco today. COYW!!

 

Because I'm likely to be jaded again before it all wraps up in May, but this has been a solid campaign. That is all.
COYW

 

How much fun was it to hear the away fans singing "He's One of Our Own" to Sessegnon! I've been waiting all season for that. One of the best finishes of the season. I would have been fine with any result after that goal!

It was a surprising lineup and an equally quirky match that followed. That's the first time Robinson hasn't started since... (flipping pages)... September 2023! But Sessegnon didn't even give me a moment to ponder if that was a good decision. Muniz also took full advantage of his start. He looked fantastic with his hold up play and his deft goal. Cuenca was the one who didn't really give Silva anything to think about. When Bassey came on he totally took over the left side of the pitch and reminded us how good he is. I would have expected better defense when they played 5 at the back, but they did well enough for a win. He didn't score a goal but Castagne deserves a shoutout for that last block. I thought for sure Ait-Noure was scoring on that terrific turn he made.

One downer is that Lukic is out for the next two league matches, but at least he'll be available for the FA Cup. This ended up being the perfect set-up for Fulham going into this Sunday's match against Manchester United - no injuries, no reds, good squad rotation

 

Somehow I'm more optimistic about the six teams we're facing in the league next than I would have been about the likes of Southampton, Leicester, Everton, Ipswich, etc. We tend to step up against the "better" clubs. COYW!

 

Not glamorous but three points nonetheless.

It showed that it was a bit of a seemingly experimental lineup. The team struggled to play out of the back and hold possession. And it seemed to me that was due to a lack of familiarity. It was pretty obvious though that the plan was to play as vertically as possible.

I almost turned it off near the end when the announcers started talking like Fulham had already won the match. I thought for sure they were going to jinx it. Thankfully I was wrong.