{"id":3292,"date":"2025-10-15T15:08:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/?p=3292"},"modified":"2025-10-22T09:24:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:24:42","slug":"games-for-the-weekend-18-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/?p=3292","title":{"rendered":"Games for the weekend 18\/10&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>We welcome Arsenal to the Cottage for a 5:30 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-Arsenal-H.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"233\" src=\"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2526-Arsenal-H.png\" alt=\"Fulham v Arsenal\" class=\"wp-image-3224\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Games against Arsenal are always ones I look forward to as my Dad was a &#8216;gooner&#8217; and the first game he took me to was Fulham v Arsenal, at the Cottage, January 1966 which Fulham won 1-0, much to Dads annoyance Fulham hooked me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So after two 3-1 defeats, having taken the lead in both games, we get to face the team sitting on top of the table, so no pressure.<br>The injury list is growing Muniz, Tete and now Lukic, hopefully Raul will be available otherwise it could be an even more difficult game.<br>Chukwuez only played the first half of the Nigeria v Benin game, where he assisted two goals however he received a knock and was substituted at halftime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our record, for the previous 8 games, against Arsenal is reasonable, considering respective table positions and squad depth, as we always give a reasonable account of ourselves, however only 1 win, 4 losses and 3 draws doesn&#8217;t reflect how well we play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m going to assume that Raul will be available and that Marco will go for a back 5, so 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\/2025\/10\/ArsenalH.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"398\" height=\"634\" src=\"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ArsenalH.png\" alt=\"team to face Arsenal at the Cottage\" class=\"wp-image-3405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ArsenalH.png 398w, https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ArsenalH-188x300.png 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/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>Saturday 18\/10<\/em><br>Burnley v Leeds<br>Palace v Bournemouth<br>Forest v Chelsea<br>West Ham v Brentford<br>Fulham v Arsenal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Monday 20\/10<\/em><br>West Ham v Brentford<\/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 welcome Arsenal to the Cottage for a 5:30 kick off Games against Arsenal are always ones I look forward to as my Dad was a &#8216;gooner&#8217; and the first game he took me to was Fulham v Arsenal, at the Cottage, January 1966 which Fulham won 1-0, much to Dads annoyance Fulham hooked me! &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/?p=3292\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Games for the weekend 18\/10&#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":[105],"class_list":["post-3292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fulham-fc","tag-fulham-v-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292","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=3292"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3409,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions\/3409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}