Fulham Away - Opposition Fan View, Pub Ammo & Team News

The fans on the Fulham message boards are generally not confident about this one. Both teams had a mid week Europa game, Fulham won, and Spurs lost, but Fulham played their full team, whilst ours stayed home in the warm. They think that this, plus the fact that Modric and Parker are dominating teams at the moment will see Fulham defeated.

Overall, they're worried about our pace on the wings, the steel of Parker not letting them play, the skill of Modders keeping the ball from them and VDV inevitably scoring against them. However, they have identified that we give away too many free kicks around the area and this will be an easy way to put our ever changing defence under pressure.

Shockingly, in only October, there is already a thread calling for Big Martin Jol's sacking. With half the comments on there wanting to get rid, and the other half preferring to "wait and see". Either way, they're not entirely happy with how it's going this season.

Fulham fans score predictions: Fulham win 35%, Draw 10%, Spurs win 55%

Pub Ammo
- Fulham have failed to score in four of the last five Premier League matches with Tottenham.
- The Cottagers have won just one of the last 10 Premier League games against Tottenham, losing four.
- Fulham have only won two of their last 22 London derbies, but one of them came in their last London derby at Craven Cottage (6-0 v Queens Park Rangers).
- Luka Modric should make his 100th Premier League appearances for Spurs in this game.
- Tottenham, undefeated in seven Premier League games, have won their first two London derbies of the season, beating Arsenal and then QPR at home last Sunday.
- Since signing from West Ham at the end of the transfer window, Scott Parker has yet to be on the losing side while wearing the lilywhite of Tottenham.

Team Selection
Corluka, Kranjcar, Rose, Huddlestone, Dawson and Redknapp are out whilst Gallas was subbed off against Rubin and Pienaar came through the entire 90 minutes. Not that I think any of those players would displace any of our current starting 11... Gallas maybe, but with King in the team, I'd rather have at least one centre back that can run and isn't a sub waiting to happen. That and Kaboul has been pretty immense as of late. No need to mess around with the team, same as, let's keep it going...

Friedel
Walker   King   Kaboul   BAE
Lennon   Parker   Modric   Bale
VDV
Ade

Assuming we don't get a silly red card early on, we won't get battered 4-0 like last year's FA Cup game. Confidence is high, the players are rested, the team is on fire. 3-2 Spurs. COYS!

p.s. Don't sing Martin Jol songs, yeah we loved him, but he's not our manager any more, it just makes us look stupid. Sure he's got no hair, but we really shouldn't care.

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