Fulham (A) Match Thread Sponsored by The Championship

[winchester_royal]

Mcdermott nearly ruined Karacan didn't he?

Looks twice the player playing in this team

'Greed, as do McCleary, McAnuff, and Guthrie. And Gunter for that matter..

Looking forward to seeing what he does with Kebe..

[ZacNaloen]

I'd love to see some possession stats

http://www.whoscored.com/Matches/615294/Live
Possession
Fulham 53% - 47% Reading
Pass completion
Fulham 81% - 86% Reading
Aerial Success
Fulham 69% - 31% Reading

That pretty much confirms it's by far our best passing display. I reckon we were probably on top in possession up until we woke them up by scoring and the terrible Karagounis came off.

86% pass completion, fuck me

[LightwaterRoyal]

He does well do get up and down the pitch but I've been disappointed with Gunters delivery, seeing how much space he gets when hrk drifts in you would think he could whip a better ball in

Was thinking the same. Against Arsenal in the cup his crosses were so much better.

[ZacNaloen]

Karacan completed 26/27 passes in that half

[LightwaterRoyal]

I'd love to see some possession stats

http://www.whoscored.com/Matches/615294/Live
Possession
Fulham 53% - 47% Reading
Pass completion
Fulham 81% - 86% Reading
Aerial Success
Fulham 69% - 31% Reading

That pretty much confirms it's by far our best passing display. I reckon we were probably on top in possession up until we woke them up by scoring and the terrible Karagounis came off.

86% pass completion, fuck me

Karacan got 26 out of 27 passes. Thats what 98%?

[Einstein agogo]

IF I was Adkins I would be doing everything possible to keep McCarthy for at least the next 3 years.
If we lose him i will consider it a travesty...

[P!ssed Off]

My initial post:

It's amazing really. HRK & McCarthy are probably going to be joining PL clubs this summer despite only starting 10 games each. If they are PL quality (which they clearly are) why did that fat bloke never play them?

Followed by:

Nov-Apr is hardly most of the season. He still wasn't played enough when he was fit (see start of season)

Nowhere in those two posts did I define that a "season" consisted of just PL games. Moron.

I've lost all interest in you now. Go bother someone else with your ridiculously stupid questions.
"Why didn't a player who was injured for 6 months of the season not start very many games?" I mean honestly, you're either a small child or completely thick, I can't decide.

[cpmurph]

We're actually playing passing football?!
This scares me....it feels unnatural after the last few years

Tbf to Brian his more direct formula worked for us in the Champ often enough

[Ian Royal]

I'd love to see some possession stats

http://www.whoscored.com/Matches/615294/Live
Possession
Fulham 53% - 47% Reading
Pass completion
Fulham 81% - 86% Reading
Aerial Success
Fulham 69% - 31% Reading

That pretty much confirms it's by far our best passing display. I reckon we were probably on top in possession up until we woke them up by scoring and the terrible Karagounis came off.

86% pass completion, fuck me

Go to the link and check through some of the individual players. About 5 of them are around 95%!! It's McAnuff (70%) and McCarthy (50%) who are bringing us down to just 86%.

[ZacNaloen]

IF I was Adkins I would be doing everything possible to keep McCarthy for at least the next 3 years.
If we lose him i will consider it a travesty...

What if selling him allows us to sign that quality No.10 that would us to create real chances through the middle, Mcanuff is trying bless him, but it's not his best role.

Federici is still a quality keeper and we are basically producing quality goal keepers every year at the moment.

[Norfolk Royal]

That half completely vindic8s the decision to sack McDermott.

[PremAddict]

Very happy with the play under NA so far. Even though Fulham don't really have anything to play for, we look very good.

Do t think we'll hang on to HRK, but AMc is staying unless someone comes in with silly money.

[windermere_royal]

I'd love to see some possession stats

http://www.whoscored.com/Matches/615294/Live
Possession
Fulham 53% - 47% Reading
Pass completion
Fulham 81% - 86% Reading
Aerial Success
Fulham 69% - 31% Reading

That pretty much confirms it's by far our best passing display. I reckon we were probably on top in possession up until we woke them up by scoring and the terrible Karagounis came off.

86% pass completion, fuck me

bbc have us on 56% possession

[Sanguine]

Morrison long balls = 4
Morrison accurate long balls = 4



Holy mother.

[ZacNaloen]

BBC calculate possession different to everyone else

[ZacNaloen]

Set pieces have been poor tbf

[Ouroboros]

BBC pull their possession stat out of their arses

[ZacNaloen]

I read opta uses passes completed as a proxy for time in possession, perhaps BBC actually sit there with a stop watch

[LightwaterRoyal]

Karacan

Hardly recognise him

[Brian's left bollock]

So was it inflatables today?