Fulham v Town Full of Seamen

Nevland is the closer.

 

I say we just sub Nevland in around 10 minutes from now on. This way he still feels at home by coming off the bench, but has more time for more goals.

Good game and much needed 3 points.

 

My thoughts on the game.

I would start Nevland, perhaps bringing in Zamora with 20 mins left. Nevland has earned the start, just not sure if he can go 90.

Murphy had a much much better game.

If it hadn't been for Nevland's brace, Dempsey would have been my MOTM. He did very well defensively and gave us much of the creative spark we needed. It said something when Pompey pushed 3 players on him when he made that 2nd half run down the left side.

Pantsil is a man of extremes...I just hope that, by the end of the season, he has saved us more points than he has cost us.

 

I successfully avoided all forms of media to watch the rebroadcast tonight on FSC -- woo-hoo!!!!! What I noticed on a few random players

Pantsil -- Cursed him up and down for 70 minutes until he made the tackle of the season.

PK -- great game, except for bad giveaway in the 8th or 9th.

Brede -- STUD -- He won a header in the 85th where I thought he looked like Troy Polamalu drilling a wide receiver in the middle.

A Johnson -- Great goal, I'll have more to say on that tomorrow on the blog

Nevland -- Holy great golly almighty! I can only imagine how GJ's man crush grew today.

Zamora -- You know, I like the off the ball runs he does, and the support he gives to AJ, but he had a bad game today and I still hope to see him start next week.

Smiling after a Fulham game beats the hell out of looking down and saying "Aw shit, it's still mighty close there". I say we still need to keep looking up, with one eye on the lower half of the table because, well, old habits are hard to break.

 

Nevland looked really lacking his first few touches and then the light came on. Fantastic sub in. Bobby Z was terrible. The announcers said he looked low on confidence, perhaps that's what it is.

Beautiful 2pt (at the time) tackle by JP on Crouch but he and Konch's lapses are enough to give ulcers. Hughes went to sleep twice on set pieces (the 2nd being the Nugent goal) but otherwise he and Brede were good.

Thought Etuhu was pretty solid for what he was called on to do. Offensively he was a total liability in the first half, but wasn't as bad in the second. If he could play every 90 like he did the second half, I wouldn't be so opposed to his getting time. All in all though, would rather see him as a defensive sub or in for specific matchups (like the chelsea match earlier).

Murphy had a few more give aways than I'd expect. Thought AJ, Demps and Davies all had a good match.

Good to see some goals, take 3 pts and get back in the top 10. Now if we can just do something about that road form.

 

We followed the script for this season and produced points at home. Next month will be very telling for this squad.

Thank you John Pantsil for the lovely tackle on the robot.

Davies, Dempsey and Murphy all played well and I particularly enjoyed the attack minded passing from all three.

The difference between Nevland and Zamora today was Nevland's first, seconed and third thought was to head straight toward the goal and shoot at any given opportunity.

 

Nevland is a cool finisher. Made me remember last year's goals...fondly.

I think the questions regarding Nevland's ability for 90 minutes are valid, however, I'd like to see it actually employed a time or two.

FFC played well, had a bit of good luck and earned 3 points.

COYW

 

It was a great day at the old place,it was really bouncing but I have a question for everybody-where I was sat in H7 the seemed to slowley turn on Zamora,they started singing his name when he was having a nightmare but ever so slowley the fans turned, the name singing stopped and the "you don't know what your doing" started was it just where I was sat or do you think that the crowds have turned on him at last?
Also what do you think of the new Bullard song? fantastic!!!!!

 

Good post Mr Don-fully agree with the "Etuhu maybe not a muppet" statement-thought he played well.
Agree with -Pantsil not a penlty as well-but I've seen them given many many times
Davis was very good for them yesterday,but so was their No3, his header nearly broke the crossbar(you could hear it) and he chased everything,Penent seemed to be a dog chasing his tail though lol
Nevland was massive,second goal was stunning(first one was just bloody good lol)

just a little side note,as I was walking back to the tube after the game I could hear a Pompy fan on his phone to a mate "I can't belive we lost three-one to little Fulham who the hell does that?"-made me smile-is'nt it funny everybody has a really bad game when thay play us??? funny that lol

 

What was the new Bullard song?

 

who the **** is Jimmy Bulllllllllard?,who the **** is Jimmy Bullllllard?,who the **** is Jimmy Bullllllard? and the WHITES GO MARCHING ON ON ON !!!

yep,thats about it,not the nicest thing in the world but is impresive hearing most of the Hammy end bealting it out!

 

Don I don't think I would go as far as saying Etuhu had a solid 90 but it was his best showing for Fulham. I thought he was a bit invisible in the first half but played very well in the second half. It is the first time I have seen him throw his body around and he made several very nice tackles. Terri and I watched the match together and I found myself praising his second half performance.

 

Great win yesterday. Portsmouth dominated much of the game but at the end of the day...3-1

 

Regarding Nugent's penalty claim against Paintsil, I'm not sure why nobody else has mentioned the fact that Nugent controlled the ball with his arm first.

 

I thought, once again, our defense matched up well and both Hangeland and Hughes had great games...these two are working absolutely great together. As for tackle of the match, how about Pantsil when he blocked Crouch from a point blank shot. Great stuff. though Konch was a bit dodgy though.

Dempsey had another solid performance but our best midfielder on the day was Danny.

As for Nevland...WOW, Super Sub. Just a cool finisher.

 

Erik the Conqueror to start the next fixture? I most certainly hope so.

 

Nevland probably won't start cause he's not a target man. If he does, I bet it's AJ who comes off. My guess is AJ and Zamora keep their spots, and Nevland comes off the bench again.

 

Ports is in deep deep trouble. They will need the 6 week bump due to a new manager to keep them up... I just wonder how long they are willing to wait before making the change.

Things looked much better in the midfield, but Davies and Demps were pinching in a lot - which worked to clog up the center of the pitch and provide opportunities for the outside backs to get forward.

Ports did attack the space left due to this tactic, but luckily they are not very good and the few times they exploited it the 3 defenders left were able to stand up to the test.

This 3 points may seal the Prem in 09/10 for the Whites.

 

Thought this was interesting. After Saturday's win, Fulham have the third-best home record in the Premiership:

Team W D L GD PTS
1. Manchester United 10-1-0 21 31
2. Liverpool 7-5-0 12 26
3. FULHAM 7-3-1 10 24
4. Arsenal 7-3-2 7 24
5. Chelsea 6-4-2 14 22

Impressive. Of course their away record (3rd bottom) is impressive too...