Chelsea welcome our closest neighbours Fulham to Stamford Bridge this Saturday for the 12.30pm UK time Premier League match.
We now have began this season going through three different London golf equipment and never one in every of them has been Spurs or Arsenal. What an odd begin to the season by way of the schedule.
We drew 0-0 with Crystal Palace on the opening sport, thrashed West Ham 5-1 as a result of they didn’t get any luck (if you realize then you definately learn all my articles), and now we face Fulham this weekend.
Fulham beat Bristol Metropolis 2-0 within the Carabao Cup this week so that they averted the Manchester United illness. And Metropolis are a Championship facet as nicely, Grimsby are League Two!
And this end result implies that Fulham have performed three video games in all competitions this season and are but to lose. Nevertheless, the Bristol Metropolis win was their first win to date this season.
They’ve to date had two attracts, a 1-1 with Brighton, after which the identical end result towards Manchester United.
They really had preseason, successful all three video games in July towards Nottingham Forest, Al-Ittihad, and Frankfurt. So actually, you possibly can say they’re unbeaten of their final six video games!
Fulham are an honest crew with supervisor in Marco Silva who has been there some time and has his crew enjoying with organisation, are powerful to beat, and really nicely drilled.
I don’t see it being one other West Ham sadly. However it’s a sport that Chelsea and Enzo Maresca ought to fancy all three factors in and at residence, ought to completely be taking all three factors in.
In opposition to United this season, Fulham truly had the higher of the stats with extra possession (53%), extra pictures each on and off track, and extra passes.
In addition they had extra possession than Brighton once they performed them, albeit solely simply with 51%. So I’d count on them to come back to Stamford Bridge and attempt to play some soccer, this will nicely swimsuit Chelsea. Or at the very least this could swimsuit Chelsea.
Fulham have gamers who’ve primarily been enjoying collectively for a sustained interval they usually all know their roles and the way their crew mates play. They’ve stable defenders and an honest keeper as nicely.
This will probably be a troublesome check for Chelsea and I worry for our again line and goalkeeper as at all times, however this can be a sport I consider we should always win. I’m going 2-1 residence win.
