Match Day Fulham vs Bristol City

[JJH]

Fielding
Pisano Wright Flint Bryan
Paterson Smith Brownhill O'Dowda
Reid Djuric
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Tough away game and we won't be able to play as we usually do as they play in the same way but are better than us at it, same as Brentford. Get the big Bosnian shithouse up front and fire balls into him and have attackers playing off him as we did in the second half Saturday.

Fulham's home record is atrocious so far this season and we always seem to do well here.

Fulham 1-1 Bristol City (Johansen 56', Djuric 12')

 

[JoshBCFC]

Let's all just hope to god they don't start Tom Cairney.
Fulham 2-2 Bristol City

 

[BCFC David]

Wish I was going, reckon it's going to be one of those cracking away days.

 

[markwwfc1992]

Can't believe Jordan Graham doesn't get a game for Fulham. What a waste sending him on loan here.

 

[JJH]

Wish I was going, reckon it's going to be one of those cracking away days.

Hope so, we've had a couple already this season.

 

[TTOCS]

1 home win v 1 away defeat doesnt lend itself to a Fulham win but thats what will probably happen. 2-1.
A win would be fantastic to set up for the weekend derby.
I want Djuric to play but I hope it doesnt mean we start smashing it up to him.

 

[JonBCFC]

1 home win v 1 away defeat doesnt lend itself to a Fulham win but thats what will probably happen. 2-1.
A win would be fantastic to set up for the weekend derby.
I want Djuric to play but I hope it doesnt mean we start smashing it up to him.

Can see him starting on the bench and coming on at the hour mark again. With fam out for so long, djuric coming back to fitness couldn't of happened at a better time. Think both Reid and Taylor prefer playing next to a big man.

 

[D B Disco]

Fulham play the same way that we do, and if we're not careful they could do the same to us as Leeds did - hit us hard and fast from the start, which we never recovered from. We need be on top of our high press, quick closing down, from the first whistle.

Score first and I can see us winning by a couple of goals, if they score first I think we'll be lucky to get a draw.

 

[JoshBCFC]

1 home win v 1 away defeat doesnt lend itself to a Fulham win but thats what will probably happen. 2-1.
A win would be fantastic to set up for the weekend derby.
I want Djuric to play but I hope it doesnt mean we start smashing it up to him.

Smashing it up to him might be the best option here in fairness, given that Sky Sports suggests that Fulham play a 4-3-3, which outnumbers us in central midfield. That means we'd have difficulties in playing our normal game which involves quite a bit of short passing. Going direct would mean the 3 in central midfield would be bypassed, really.

 

[JoshBCFC]

Odd line-up.
Fielding, Pisano, Wright, Flint, Bryan, O'Dowda, Brownhill, K.Smith, Pack, Paterson, Reid.
Guessing this means:

Fielding Pisano Wright Flint Bryan
O'Dowda Brownhill Smith Pack Paterson OR O'Dowda Smith Pack Brownhill
Reid Paterson
Reid

Johnson's clearly gone and tried to even out the numbers in central-midfield and play our normal game. Whether this will work, I'm not too sure. I'd personally have been more comfortable with a front two of Djuric and Reid, and abandoning our usual style of play altogether and going direct.

 

[JoshBCFC]

Cairney starts for Fulham.

 

[JonBCFC]

64% possession for Fulham but we're more than good for the lead. Fulham not really troubled us at all... was a bit surprised by the line up but it seems to be working.

 

[BCFC David]

We do look really good. Stopped playing when they had a man sent off which was a shame as we looked like scoring a couple more.

Fantastic result!

 

[Gerry Gow]

City are back woaaahh

 

[markwwfc1992]

Johnson out

 

[JJH]

What a fucking performance, best of the season by an absolute mile. Bossed every single minute of it.

 

[Luke_ciderhead]

We have been so effective on the road this season. We won 4 away games all last year and we've got that already this time with 3 draws at tough places and just the one loss(yes Guapo, we all know where that was)

Full credit to Johnson and the team for form that I honestly didn't think we were capable of. I'll need lots of humble pie if we keep this up.