{"id":2890,"date":"2023-09-01T09:18:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T09:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/?p=2890"},"modified":"2023-09-13T15:47:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T15:47:13","slug":"games-for-the-week-end-02-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/?p=2890","title":{"rendered":"Games for the weekend 02\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>We get to visit Man City at their place for a 3 o&#8217;clock kickoff<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2324-ManCityA.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"233\" src=\"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2324-ManCityA.png\" alt=\"Man City v Fulham\" class=\"wp-image-2839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2324-ManCityA.png 480w, https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2324-ManCityA-300x146.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well after a hard fought draw against Arsenal, City away is an even bigger test? is this our toughest game of the season?<br>The cup game against Spurs showed the teams resilience and &#8220;grit&#8221; winning on a penalty shoot out against a team that &#8220;most&#8221; of the pundits expected an &#8220;easy win&#8221; over Fulham, no real surprise about that opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marco will have a decision to make between Ream and Bassey, I&#8217;d go for Bassey however I think Marco will select Tim, its a difficult choice and arguments can be made for either. <br>At the time of writing Palhinha is still a Fulham player, fingers crossed he still will be Saturday morning, but there are strong rumours that Bayern Munich are very, very keen.<br>Wolves are trying to persuade Harrison Reed to join them, I&#8217;m not sure what the attraction would be, apart from, presumably, higher wages?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">our record against Man City is awful with 1 win, 17 losses and 3 draws<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">will Castagne be in the squad?, assuming no injuries, departures or &#8220;new&#8221; players available, my team would be&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/23CityA.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"398\" height=\"634\" src=\"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/23CityA.png\" alt=\"team to face Man City\" class=\"wp-image-2898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/23CityA.png 398w, https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/23CityA-188x300.png 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\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 1st<\/em><br>Luton v West Ham<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Saturday 2nd<\/em><br>Brentford v Bournemouth<br>Burnley v Spurs<br>Chelsea v Forest<br>Man City v Fulham<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Sunday 3rd<\/em><br>Palace v Wolves<br>Arsenal v Man Utd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">come on over to the forum and join in the conversation&#8230;<br>https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/forum\/index.php?board=36.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We get to visit Man City at their place for a 3 o&#8217;clock kickoff Well after a hard fought draw against Arsenal, City away is an even bigger test? is this our toughest game of the season?The cup game against Spurs showed the teams resilience and &#8220;grit&#8221; winning on a penalty shoot out against a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/?p=2890\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Games for the weekend 02\/09&#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":[97],"class_list":["post-2890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fulham-fc","tag-man-city-v-fulham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2890"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2922,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890\/revisions\/2922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}