{"id":3276,"date":"2025-08-27T23:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/?p=3276"},"modified":"2025-09-02T08:51:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T08:51:24","slug":"games-for-the-weekend-30-08-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/?p=3276","title":{"rendered":"Games for the weekend 30\/08&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>We get to make the short trip to the noisy neighbours place to take on Chelsea at Stanford Bridge for the early, 12:30 kick off.<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2526-Chelsea-A.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"233\" src=\"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2526-Chelsea-A.png\" alt=\"Chelsea v Fulham\" class=\"wp-image-3230\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For me facing Chelsea, home or away, are always the games I first look for when the fixtures are announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two league games into the season and we&#8217;re still unbeaten, OK we&#8217;ve not won but Brighton away is always going to be difficult and Man Utd always &#8220;get lucky&#8221; when we play them! VAR and ref&#8217;s never appear to give little ol&#8217; Fulham anything do they?<br>Josh King hasn&#8217;t looked out of place it&#8217;ll be interesting to see if Marco can accommodate both Josh and ESR in the same team, they could be really good for each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s League Cup game was a good run out and was good for Ra\u00fal to get his first of the season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our record against Chelsea, for the previous 8 games, is reasonably poor with only 2 wins, 5 losses and a draw. Last seasons away win, for me, was one of the highlights from last season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My team would be&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ChelseaA.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"398\" height=\"634\" src=\"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ChelseaA.png\" alt=\"team to face Chelsea\" class=\"wp-image-3338\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>COYW&#8217;s<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Games of Interest<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Friday 29\/08<\/em><br>Villa v Palace<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Saturday 30\/08<\/em><br>Chelsea v Fulham<br>Man Utd v Burnley<br>Spurs v Bournemouth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sunday 31\/08<\/em><br>Forest v West Ham<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>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 make the short trip to the noisy neighbours place to take on Chelsea at Stanford Bridge for the early, 12:30 kick off. For me facing Chelsea, home or away, are always the games I first look for when the fixtures are announced. Two league games into the season and we&#8217;re still unbeaten, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/?p=3276\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Games for the weekend 30\/08&#8230;&#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":[114],"class_list":["post-3276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fulham-fc","tag-chelsea-v-fulham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276","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=3276"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3339,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276\/revisions\/3339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}