Fulham Focus

After an annoying absence of proper football, Fulham get back to business with a visit from league leaders Arsenal. What could possibly go wrong?!

Well, there's our notoriously patchy form after international breaks, our blunt attack coming up against the best defence around, and our achilles heel potentially being exploited by Set Pieces FC.

But then again, is this not exactly the sort of fixture Marco Silva's men love to surprise us in?

Join Sam and Kish as they try to work if there is any reason to believe that we can leave our visitors in their happy place (second best) on Saturday night, with opposition insights on Mikel Arteta's men from Sky Sports statistician and Arsenal season ticket holder Paul.

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Death, taxes and Fulham somehow managing to lose games from winning positions due to individual errors and absolute worldies.

Whilst some things in life are certain others take you by surprise. So why did our fanbase meltdown online after Fulham's late meltdown away at Bournemouth?

Did Marco Silva get it wrong in opting for a very conservative five at the back against the Cherries? Were the introductions of TC and Chukwueze perfect supersub deployment or a reminder of how much creativity and firepower we didn't call on from the start? And are we destined to never see Jonah Kusi-Asare?

With injuries, frustration and tricky fixtures piling up as we head into the international break join Kish, Dylan and James as they try and work out what our 3-1 defeat at the Vitality Stadium really tells us about the season ahead

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Just five days on from their capitulation at Villa Park, strikerless (sorry Jonah!) Fulham head to the scene of one of last season's crimes, the Vitality Stadium.

But is a game against Andoni Iraola's punchy, pressing Bournemouth side the last thing we need right now?

Who can step up to offer some much needed creativity and firepower? With no Kenny Tete to keep tabs on Antoine Semenyo, can Marco Silva's men keep it tight at the back? And how on earth have our opponents thrown in key new recruits with no hesitation when we seem so reluctant to do the same?

Sam, Kish and Bournemouth fan James look to answer those questions (whilst also bonding over some shared Scott Parker slander) in this earlier than usual preview of our Friday night fixture.

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Injuries to the club's two senior strikers meant that we were forced to field Adama Traore up front for the majority of Sunday's visit to Villa Park.

And so while our physios were being kept busy, it was no surprise that Doctor Fulham was helping to breathe new life into an Aston Villa side that previously had been unable to buy a goal.

Sam, Dylan and Alex sit down to discuss the centre-forward fiasco, our frailties to long ball football, and whether refereeing would be better if VAR was replaced by a random spin of the wheel.

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Champions League quarter-finalists back in April, Aston Villa are enduring a torrid start to the season and find themselves winless, in the bottom three, and with just one goal to their name.

Most opponents would be enthused at the prospect of adding to their woes. The only trouble is we have won just one league game at Villa Park in the past 52 years.

Sam, Kish and Holte End pessimist Jon sit down to discuss both clubs' campaigns so far, the respective concerns over creativity, and whether Sunday's game really is set up to be a goalless bore draw.

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Be honest, were you one of those worrying when Marco Silva went with an unchanged XI for Fulham vs Brentford? If like us you were, join Kish, Luke and Tristan for a slice of humble pie as they pay tribute to the team who eased to a third win in a row against the bus stop in Hounslow.

Along the way, the gang discuss Josh King's moment of madness, Iwobi's pass, Wilson's finish, the unstoppable goalscorer that is OG, another VAR official who has a problem with Rodrigo Muniz and the collective effort to head away endless long throws.

Plus, with Fulham starting to look upwards in the Premier League table (whilst Brentford look down), who will be tasked with keeping our first route to cup glory alive against Cambridge and will any of them break into this settled side soon?

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Here we go! But will it be three in a row against the bus stop in Hounslow? 

Can Fulham repeat the trick under the lights versus Brentford? Is it too much to ask for Harry Wilson to do it yet again? Can Kevin (Santos Lopes de Macedo) deliver like Kevin (Mbabu) once did? And will Brentford under Keith Andrews come back to the Cottage with the filthiest low block we’ve seen since Thomas Frank last year?

Join Sam and Kish as they answer all this and more with Sky Sports Statistician (and Brentford fan) James ‘Wheels’ Wheeler.

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For 76 mins of Saturday's game this podcast was going to struggle for content and the Fulham faithful were going to struggle for Sunday joy. But then Kevin arrived and everything changed, potentially forever!

So join Sam, Morgan and Kish to wax lyrical about the man destined to keep us excited this season, leave us for a record fee in the summer and then win the Ballon d'Or.

And after regaining some composure they also try to make sense of a sluggish Fulham performance, ask if Marco Silva got away with one, and marvel at the most emphatic own goal anyone can remember.

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Will the arrival of a new 'Samba White' help us break our recent curse against newly promoted sides at home?

Sam is in the hotseat as we discuss the upcoming visit of Leeds United to Craven Cottage, ponder whether Marco Silva is ready to unleash Kevin, and stress out about some big lads who could hurt us at set-pieces (again).

And If that isn't enough, Kish gets to go full 'Tactico' breaking down Fulham versus Leeds with Adam from 'All Stats Aren't We'.

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Rob Jones, Michael Salisbury, Stockley Park, PGMOL, Howard Webb and anyone who thinks Fulham didn't get royally shafted on Saturday - this one is for you!

Join Sam, Wiggo and Kish as they vent on the farcical state of modern football, go over the incidents that derailed this weekend's West London Derby and ask if there is any way to rid VAR from the game once and for all.

Once they've got that off their chests there's also time to salute Josh King (who has many big moments still to come), Marco Silva (who finally mastered five at the back), and discuss whether some flying wingers and last ditch business on deadline day might cheer us all up.

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