Fulham at West Ham

Fulham travel across London on Saturday to take on West Ham. Kickoff is at 10am EST on Peacock.

West Ham is in deep trouble sitting in the relegation zone and fives points behind 17th place Forest. It seems like they shouldn't be that bad with the squad they have, but somehow they've gotten into a deep hole.

Fulham will have a thin squad with the AFCON absenses along with Muniz and Sessegnon. Unfortunately Wilson is also uncertain due to a knee injury against Forest. I'm a broken record, but once again, I want to see Smith Rowe and King in the midfield and lots of playing time for Kusi-Asare so Raul can get a little break. I'm not holding my breath though.

West Ham will clearly see this as an opportunity to pick up three points since Fulham have been poor on the road, are missing key players, and did not look impressive against Forest. Somehow I think Fulham will avoid coming away with nothing but it won't be pretty.

 

Stubborn. Stubborn. Stubborn.

We can all guess the lineup.


Halftime update: Boring. Boring. Boring.

 

The great performances are the ones we remember, but it’s the grind them out 1-0 wins that propel you up the table. Thank Gawd Harry Wilson to Leeds was shut down. Where would we be without him?

 

Hard to question the result, but against better finishing, we would have lost. Marco’s unwillingness to change is likely to cost us in the coming weeks. On the other hand, Jimenez keeps proving me wrong—his work rate is amazing, and he seems to have found another set of fresh legs.

I think Kevin will eventually work out, but he has tons more work to do and should look to Wilson and Chuk for examples of how to hack it in the Prem.

I expect Silva to be conservative again against Crystal Palace on New Year’s Day, even if I’d love to see King and ESR start together. I’m afraid we’ll lose that one.

 

Looks like messy and ugly is the new Fulham. Hopefully it’s just temporary. I have no complaints with a second straight clean sheet and sitting tenth in the table though.

 

I was only able to catch the highlights but based on those and the comments above, it does seem like Fulham got away with one today - but that is also the kind of result that happens to teams spending a lot of time in the relegation zone. I feel a bit bad for West Ham; they seem snake bit. I'll not complain at all though about three more points and getting back to midtable.

Raul is sure making it hard to give him a break when he keeps scoring late goals! Listen Raul, get two goals early and you might get to take the last 30 minutes off! Give it some consideration.

Absolutely agree with you. Fulham got results against teams in the lower regions of the table, but this is not going to fly against better teams.