{"id":3307,"date":"2025-12-05T13:25:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/?p=3307"},"modified":"2025-12-07T15:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T15:18:10","slug":"games-for-the-weekend-06-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/?p=3307","title":{"rendered":"Games for the weekend 06\/12&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>We welcome Crystal Palace to the Cottage for a 3 o&#8217;clock 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-Palace-H.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"233\" src=\"http:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2526-Palace-H.png\" alt=\"Fulham v Palace\" class=\"wp-image-3241\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What a game against City, &#8220;a glorious defeat&#8221; if only we&#8217;d have got the 5th it would have been one of the all time comebacks!<br>Smith Rowe started the game and had his best game in a Fulham shirt, he scored a great header and his all round play was first class.<br>Alex Iwobi&#8217;s goal stated the fight back, at 5-1 down 99.9% of us surely thought it all over, Alex changed that. <br>Then Chukwueze coming on changed the game 2 goals in 6 minutes really had us all believing.<br>Josh had a shot cleared off the line and Kusi-Asare could\/should have had a penalty?, but it wasn&#8217;t to be, however the spirit the team showed should not be underestimated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Palace are having a really good season, currently sitting 5th, with 6 wins, 4 losses and 4 draws. Away games they&#8217;ve won 3, lost 3 and drawn 3. <br>Last season we played Palace 3 times, 2 in the league and the FA Cup. Palace were better away than at home, we beat them at Selhurst and lost both at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our record against Palace, for the previous 8 games, is quite even with 2 wins, 2 losses and 4 draws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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\/12\/PalaceHome.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"398\" height=\"634\" src=\"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PalaceHome.png\" alt=\"squad to face Crystal Palace\" class=\"wp-image-3462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PalaceHome.png 398w, https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PalaceHome-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<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Saturday 06\/12<\/em><br>Bournemouth v Chelsea<br>Everton v Forest<br>Newcastle v Burnley<br>Leeds v Liverpool<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Sunday 02\/11<\/em><br>Fulham v Palace<\/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 welcome Crystal Palace to the Cottage for a 3 o&#8217;clock kick off What a game against City, &#8220;a glorious defeat&#8221; if only we&#8217;d have got the 5th it would have been one of the all time comebacks!Smith Rowe started the game and had his best game in a Fulham shirt, he scored a great &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/?p=3307\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Games for the weekend 06\/12&#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":[62],"class_list":["post-3307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fulham-fc","tag-fulham-v-crystal-palace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307","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=3307"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3468,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions\/3468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friendsoffulham.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}