Marco Silva makes feelings clear to Fulham players after Wolves thrashing

Fulham person enjoyed a agleam commencement to the play and enactment themselves successful the premix for European places, but were brought crashing down to world arsenic Wolves claimed a 4-1 triumph astatine Craven Cottage connected Saturday

Marco Silva insisted Fulham weren’t arsenic atrocious arsenic the scoreline suggested pursuing their drubbing by Wolves - but volition request a absorption from his players.

The Cottagers saw their hopes of a Premier League apical six spot blown distant connected a blustery day by the Thames arsenic they were thrashed 4-1 connected location soil.

It hadn’t ever looked similar being that way, peculiarly aft Alex Iwobi’s good curling onslaught handed Fulham a 20th infinitesimal lead. But aft Matheus Cunha and Joao Gomes had turned the crippled connected its head, the location broadside struggled to make a accidental of existent note.

Their nightmare day was summed up by Silva’s determination to usage 5 substitutes successful 12 minutes erstwhile trailing 2-1 - lone to suffer centre-back Joachim Andersen astir instantly with a calf injury. And Wolves made the astir of their antheral vantage precocious on, ruthlessly picking disconnected Silva’s broadside arsenic Cunha and Goncalo Guedes added gloss to the scoreline.

“The archetypal 2 goals it’s hard to judge due to the fact that we tin bash truthful overmuch better,” admitted the Fulham boss. “You can’t concede the mode we conceded the equaliser. It was large from a top, apical player, but it was antithetic from our perspective.

“We can’t conscionable beryllium looking astatine the score. The 2 goals erstwhile we were with 10 men didn’t bespeak the game.

“We person to respond - it’s not the archetypal clip that we are going to respond and I truly judge we person each the conditions to bash it. We are going to analyse the game, to recognize wherefore things happened, and marque the players recognize too.”

Fulham present caput into a pugnacious tally of fixture successful December, with matches against Tottenham, Brighton, Arsenal and Liverpool coming up.

Silva is going to request that knowing and absorption from his players sooner alternatively than aboriginal to guarantee the decision to Gary O’Neil’s men doesn’t statesman a tally that wholly extinguishes immoderate European hopes they whitethorn inactive have.

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