Fulham 0-3 Brentford (H) - 19 August

[ron]

It's an accident waiting to happen.....

Soft passing across the back always costs an important goal eventually.

[ChesterTheTabby]

Dioppppp whyyy

[Sammyffc]

Midfield is like the inside of an empty crisp packet and our attack has the penetration of a cocktail sausage in a funnel of a ship.

Bobby off for Adama and Wilson off for willian

[Rj Fulham]

Absolute gift, what on earth was he doing 

[LC]

We've missed Mitrovic today, we need to bring in a top replacement

[SerbianLad]

Thought our defence (apart from the Diop error obviously) and midfield were great. BDR and Wilson not doing nearly enough. I'd honestly swap both for Willian and Adama at half time. Jimenez looks like he's starting to tire a bit so hopefully Vini will come on at some point too.

[jayffc]

Shouldn't be a goal down, a draw a fair reflection of that half and wouldn't be down if not for that calamitous back pass, not Diops first time being caught out like that.

We still look devoid of ideas up top and weaker in central mid without Mitro and Willian  and Palhinha respectively.

Lukic still looks slow in his decision making and Reed not  quite has last seasons heights without Joao alongside him
No close link up play alongside and off of Jimi either he's too isolated

Very averagee performance so far.

[Rj Fulham]

Willian on at half time

Vini on 60 along with Palhinha

Adama at 70 if still behind

at this rate, get vini and Muniz on up frònt, desperately need to get things moving out there

[Grassy Noel]

So with zero shots on goal will we ever find out if the keeper is as dodgey as has been hinted?

[LittleErn]

We're playing nice controlled football but really not creating anything. We have no cutting edge and, just as important, we lack a hold up man who can control the long ball out of defence until support arrives. Jimenez is not the answer on current showing. Maybe time to give Vinicius another chance. Brentford are no better but they have the gift of an unearned goal.

[Grassy Noel]

I am all for Vini coming on provided that the ball is played to his feet and not every other part of his anatomy.

[Caedal]

I feel like this system just doesn't work without a very specific type of striker. This is the issue with designing an entire tactical system around 1 player. We were very lucky last week as we played very poorly, and we've been bad again today.
We don't have enough pace in the side to play with 2 wide players. The central midfield is getting overrun like it was against Everton.
We play so slowly, so it's easy to defend against us. Plus we always give up a lot of goal scoring opportunities, and rely on Leno to keep us in games.

[Drewry66]

Brentford are sitting very deep with two banks of four and are organised. It is tough to break down. Actually thought RJ held the ball up pretty well but no space at all. Been even and should be 0 - 0. Diop is a disaster waiting to happen on the ball and just never looks confident. Done that a few times now.

[akf]

It feels like we are doing well. We are passing the ball around well (except when errors lead to goals).  We are getting in pretty good positions, but not creating chances.

We have 4 shots to their 8, 0 on target to their 4, 1 shot from w/i the penalty box to their 6, 0 goals to their 1.  We need to start taking chances.

[WolverineFFC]

2nd week in a row so flat in the 1st half. Need more creativity on the pitch, but other than Willian there isn't much on the bench. May have to get TC out there for Reed but would be concerned how much more open that would make things.

[davew]

How many subs can we bring on for the start of the 2nd half? 5 would be good!

[davew]

2 shots on target now in the first 135+ minutes of this season, really impressive! 

[LittleErn]

The shot statistics are very revealing.

[Sting of the North]

Think we were decent but looked devoid of attacking ideas. Defended generally well, midfield was ok. Thought Lukic looked good today. Not his fault that we create almost no good runs (against an admittedly ultra defensive Brentford). Hard to break down such teams, and unfortunately they got a very undeserved lucky break.

Think we are clearly the better team.

We should stick with Raul, think Vini will have no chance against such a low block. If Willian is ready, we could really use him.

[MisfitKid]

shoulda...