Fulham @ Blackburn

What an important match this is to both Clubs but it is desperation time for Blackburn...I was actually hoping Samba would be sold by the time the game kicks off.

None-the-less, Fulham could use the win to continue the form and move up the table. Blackburn are desperate and desperate teams can be dangerous...thats why we need to score early and none of this game of two halves! Up for it for 90 minutes is what we need.

Line-up kind of picks itself if Zamora is in the starting 11. :banana-linedance:

 

According to my TV guide, it will be on tape delay on Fox Soccer Plus on Saturday at 4:30 PM Eastern/1:30 PM Pacific.

 

Agreed. Just look at Bolton at Everton. Came back from the freak Tim Howard goal to get all three points.

 

The home fans will have their knives ready if our boys can give them reason to turn on Kean. I watched their miracle at ManUre and they certainly gave effort. Agree w/Heather and sense a 1-1 result.

 

Big chance for the Whites to take all 3 - even if on the road.

COYW

 

Predicting a 2-0 victory for the good guys. COYWs

 

I'd love to be in the chat - but, my two wee ones don't allow a moment's notice on the keyboard on the weekends - hence, my absence from the chat, despite listening to numerous past GJ broadcasts.

COYW

 

Not sure if I'll make the chat room this week, the little one has her tumbling class and it's supposed to be my turn to take her. Have to see if I can beg and plead to swap weeks

 

Definitely a winnable game, especially if the Fulham from the Arsenal match shows up. However, with it being an away match I'm just hoping for a draw. Gotta keep collecting points.

 

Don, you are both clairvoyant and succinct...what it comes down to, for me, is who gets a breakthrough on set plays ..whether we get one or not, I don't know. Even with my "cough, cough" wealth of sports knowledge, I've never done that well in Vegas. COYW

 

Interesting article from the Fulham site about McBride and his take on Blackburn and the current Fulham season

http://www.fulhamfc.com/Club/News/NewsA ... usive.aspx

 

If we are to move from a lower mid table team to an upper mid table team, and justify expansion plans, we gotta start turning the corner on away matches...and that means WINNING them when they're winnable, as this one clearly is. At this juncture, a draw in a match like this is a setback, regardless of the circumstances of the contest. I believe we're as ready as we'll ever be to do just that. No predictions....except a win for Fulham! COYW!

 

My goodness. Where to begin?

We sat back back from the red card through to the end of the half (apparently trusting that the chances would create themselves). No killer instinct, no desire to exploit the man advantage. Lazy and clumsy going into the dressing room and again coming back out.

This nebulous 4-1-4-1 or 4-3-3, or however you want to describe it, simply did not work. We've got talented players (Dempsey, Ruiz, Dembele) who can play off the striker, but none of them seemed to know what their role was. They were getting in each other's way. I think the announcer called Ruiz's name all of one time the entire second half. There was simply no offensive organization. No teamwork. No understanding.

Stockdale had a bad game. Frei looked horrendous. Duff and Zamora played ok, but other than that, just awful. I don't know which is more pitiful...getting blown out by United, or rolling over for friggin 10-man Blackburn.

 

10 man Blackburn is simply embarrassing. Jeckyl and Hyde this year. $&@!?@$&!

COYW

Seriously though, come on...

 

Just watched the abbreviated highlights on foxsports.com. Red card was deserved, don't know what their fans were howling about. Our defense sucked. That's putting it mildly. Duff's well angled strike was about the only highlight for us. First subpar outing for Stockdale. He appeared to lean the wrong way on the free kick, got screened by his own wall, then couldn't recover. To be fair, it was a well struck, well placed ball. The first one wasn't quite as soft as it seemed, the last was a pure defensive breakdown that left him helpless. Jeckyl and Hyde indeed, nev. Solutions? Anybody?