Seven video games to set a club-record Premier League factors complete and earn a European spot. Are Fulham going to really feel the stress?
“We set the goal originally of the season for us to reach within the ultimate phases combating for one thing necessary,” head coach Marco Silva tells Sky Sports activities.
“It isn’t further stress or extra stress for us. It’s a privilege to have the sort of factor. It’s what I need.
“It’s the stress that I placed on myself, my workers, my gamers and now if we’ve got the possibility to combat [for it], we’ve got to embrace it.”
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Premier League highlights of the match between Fulham and Liverpool
Fulham are on a excessive once more after turning into solely the second facet this season to topple Liverpool and the primary to do it on dwelling turf. The victory got here on the finish of their hardest second of the season, an FA Cup quarter-final defeat at dwelling to Crystal Palace after which a loss at Arsenal.
“What makes the distinction between the traditional sides and the nice sides is the best way you’ll be able to bounce again and the best way you’ll be able to present the character and the persona as a crew,” says Silva, whose crew want two extra wins to surpass the Premier League report Roy Hodgson’s crew set in 2009.
The consequence was an announcement in how Silva has aimed to vary the membership’s mentality when taking part in towards the highest sides. They’ve overwhelmed Nottingham Forest and Newcastle twice this season, plus Chelsea.
“I bear in mind the primary season within the Premier League, towards groups that had been beneath us, more often than not we had been in a position to get the factors. In opposition to groups that had been above us, we weren’t in a position to,” says Silva. “It was one thing that I used to be questioning virtually each single week.
“It was one thing that we modified utterly when it comes to our mindset. Slight issues within the strategy, however mindset way more. Our bravery and our ambition for these video games and to not change something. To respect our id and our philosophy as nicely.”
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Jamie Carragher breaks down how Marco Silva outsmarted Arne Slot as Fulham shocked Premier League leaders Liverpool
Between 2018 and 2022, Fulham had been both promoted or relegated every season however since returning to the Premier League below Silva, they’ve completed tenth and thirteenth with out the specter of relegation.
They’ve executed it after shedding their two finest gamers within the final two summers, striker Aleksandar Mitrovic and midfielder Joao Palhinha. “Different groups after they promote their important strikers, they go and so they spend every little thing of their place. We aren’t in a position to do it. We resolve it otherwise.”
Raul Jimenez and Rodrigo Muniz have each hit double figures in all competitions. Antonee Robinson’s 10 assists is essentially the most of any defender within the Premier League. Alex Iwobi and Calvin Bassey have each improved to develop into key gamers.
In a season the place the three promoted golf equipment, Southampton, Leicester and Ipswich, are all prone to go straight again down, it’s a vital achievement that Fulham have established themselves within the high flight.
Rodrigo Muniz accomplished Fulham’s outstanding first-half turnaround towards Liverpool
It’s why Silva has been linked with jobs at Manchester United and Tottenham. Fulham will likely be determined to maintain him with a yr left on his contract. Does he deserve extra credit score?
“That isn’t for me to speak about. My focus is de facto on my job, what I can management,” he says.
“What I can management is the best way my crew goes to play. It is the philosophy that I need within the crew. The id that I at all times strive for my gamers to have, to make them higher gamers individually and collectively. To make the membership higher each single week, each single month, each single season. That’s the important factor for me.
“We’ve been doing unbelievable issues on the pitch.”
Fulham have exceeded expectations below Silva and now he has the possibility to cement his legacy.
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