Fulham (H) | PL | Post Match Thread

The media are fucking vipers. We dickslapped a bag of shit nothing Fulham team who did nothing but park the bus and foul from minute 1 in 2nd gear. The Aké goal was perfectly fine, Leno had a view of it leaving his head, Akanji jumped over the ball. Fuckall wrong with it. McBurnie jumped directly in front of Ederson to the extent he couldn't dive fully last week and VAR didn't even look at it. Fulham deserved absolutely nowt
 
chickaroon said:
Yes he did and Akanji slotted into a back 4. Phil moved inside and we looked so much better. I still think that we should start with a back three and when out of pocession, Rodri steps into the back 4. When Stones returns does he step back into his previous role, moving into midfield if so, where does Kova play?
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The three atb system with Stones moving into midfield transformed us last season, we looked so fluid I really hope Stones is fit after the break and comes straightback into the team.

To answer your question, personally I think Kova could play the role Gundo played 8/10 with Phil or Alvarez as the other 8/10.

Or as replacement for Rodri as the DM.
 
A very scrappy first half, but we were much better in the second.

Phil was sublime throughout, and Erling showed what a danger he is, no matter how little involved in the game he seems to be. Kyle and Nathan were also both excellent.

The strength of the squad was perfectly demonstrated yesterday, by the fact that we didn’t miss Kevin, John and Jack at all.

Although Jérémy didn’t really get the chance to showcase his pace going forward, he certainly proved his ability to help defend. His tracking back was excellent.

It was very pleasing to see some of the fringe players come on. More minutes for Rico, Sergio and Kalvin can’t be a bad thing, and Oscar looked as though he has what it takes, though, of course it still very early days for him.

Finally, I don’t remember headlines last Tuesday week, screaming that Wolves were let down by VAR.
 
Very patchy first half performance.

Shape changed at HT and much better.

The second perhaps should not have stood but not had chance yat to download and have a look at relevant part of this year's Laws of the Game. Not convinced their keeper was saving it if Akanji is not there.

No doubt the 2nd goal and its timing affected the game but Fulham never really looked like scoring and their goal came from a gift of a corner... Not a lot of chances in the game but three unaswered second hal goals and the presence of Erling suggests that we might have found a way through.

Fulham are not easy to beat (we saw that twice last season) and that is a very good result.

We are slow starters, we have injuries, new players to integrate and teams will be working harder than ever to stifle us, so four wins out of four is all we can ask at this stage.
 
mancboy said:
All we will hear about is that second goal and whether akanji was intefering with play and i refer you back to sheffield utds goal last week when their striker ran across edersons eyeline, where was the outrage when that was given, oh yeah there wasnt any
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It was allowed because Walker (off the pitch) played him onside
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
Akanji made Leno stutter. It’s 100% offside. The law doesn’t include an offside player changing how a keeper makes a save and needs to be added.

Everyone everywhere is saying it. Even Haaland and Lilo.

Ultimately it didn’t matter, but it was a silly decision for the sport.
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I know a good Speech and Language Therapist.
 
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TueartsOHK said:
Have VAR come forward and explained their decision- did they after the Rags goal? Surely this is a necessity for controversial decisions.
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I would like them to explain how they managed to give the Raggy Bastards a penalty in the FA Cup Final, no way on this earth was that a handball.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
Akanji made Leno stutter. It’s 100% offside. The law doesn’t include an offside player changing how a keeper makes a save and needs to be added.

Everyone everywhere is saying it. Even Haaland and Lilo.

Ultimately it didn’t matter, but it was a silly decision for the sport.
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All we seem to see these days are silly decisions. Id argue there are more now than there was pre VAR

(although I'm sure thats not the case)
 
Vienna_70 said:
A very scrappy first half, but we were much better in the second.

Phil was sublime throughout, and Erling showed what a danger he is, no matter how little involved in the game he seems to be. Kyle and Nathan were also both excellent.

The strength of the squad was perfectly demonstrated yesterday, by the fact that we didn’t miss Kevin, John and Jack at all.

Although Jérémy didn’t really get the chance to showcase his pace going forward, he certainly proved his ability to help defend. His tracking back was excellent.

It was very pleasing to see some of the fringe players come on. More minutes for Rico, Sergio and Kalvin can’t be a bad thing, and Oscar looked as though he has what it takes, though, of course it still very early days for him.

Finally, I don’t remember headlines last Tuesday week, screaming that Wolves were let down by VAR.
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To be fair there were plenty of references to Wolves being hard done to. It’s all I read the day after on SM.
 
Sure, he was offside and the goal should not have stood. But these kind of incidents happen in our favour when we hammer teams anyway. When they go against us, they are in big matches. Rags league and cup final last season, liverpool and spurs champions league etc
 
Stoned Rose said:
Wishy washy first half.

Much better 2nd.

Haaland Haalanding. Did fuck all in general play but stuck a belting hat trick away. Incredible.

Doku looking like every other winger has early doors - like he had absolutely no idea what the role is or what the system is. Bless him. It’ll come.

Gomez looked the part when he came on. Sharp and at it.

Good to see Phillips get on and look confident.

5-1 when nowhere near at it.

Ominous.
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Oxford Dictionary:

Haalanding (verb), to score more than one goal in a game of association football, using the minimum amount of effort
 
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