{"id":1074,"date":"2020-02-06T09:32:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T09:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2020-04-15T07:19:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T07:19:58","slug":"games-for-the-weekend-08-02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/?p=1074","title":{"rendered":"Games for the Weekend 08\/02"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>We&#8217;re on our travels again, this weekend were off to Blackburn<\/em> Rovers.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"233\" src=\"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/BlackburnFulham.png\" alt=\"Blackburn Rovers v Fulham\" class=\"wp-image-855\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/BlackburnFulham.png 480w, http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/BlackburnFulham-300x146.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well we hung-on after a fantastic start on Saturday, those first 30-35 minutes were some of the best I&#8217;ve seen at the Cottage this season, the second half we managed to hang-on, at some points in this season we wouldn&#8217;t have.<br>Really good news that both Mitro and AK47 were back for the game and with Bobby Decordova-Reid scoring one of the best goals I&#8217;ve seen for some time, things look better on the attacking front.<br>As for defence the addition of Michael Hector has made a &#8220;chalk and cheese&#8221; difference to the back four, if only he could have started at the beginning of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blackburn are on a bit of a run themselves, they drew with Middlesborough at the weekend, beat QPR at home, beat Wednesday 0-5 away and drew with Preston NE.<br>Our results against Rovers is quite even with 5 wins, 8 loses and 6 draws so if history is anything to go by it&#8217;ll be a close game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>COYW&#8217;s<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Games of Interest&#8230;<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Friday 7th<\/em><br>Bristol City v Birmingham City<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Saturday 8th<\/em><br>Wigan v Preston NE<br>Blackburn v Fulham<br>Brentford v Middlesbrough<br>Huddersfield v QPR<br>Stoke v Charlton<br>Nottm Forest v Leeds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Sunday 9th<\/em><br>Millwall v West Brom<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">come on over to the forum and join in the discussion&#8230;<br>https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/forum\/index.php?board=1.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re on our travels again, this weekend were off to Blackburn Rovers. Well we hung-on after a fantastic start on Saturday, those first 30-35 minutes were some of the best I&#8217;ve seen at the Cottage this season, the second half we managed to hang-on, at some points in this season we wouldn&#8217;t have.Really good news &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/?p=1074\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Games for the Weekend 08\/02&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[159,201,202,203,123],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fulham-fc","tag-ak47","tag-blackburn-rovers-v-fulham","tag-bobby-decordova-reid","tag-michael-hector","tag-mitro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079,"href":"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}