Fulham were flying last season and finished 10th in the Premier League which was beyond impressive as many thought that they would be close to the relegation zone at the beginning of last season.
However, since around March this year (still the 2022-23) season, Fulham’s performances have nose-dived. Does anyone know why?
Just scratching through the numbers, their goal output has been horrific mainly, but why is that? And are there any other glaring weaknesses in the team?
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They got JimenASS
They shipped off Mitrovic to Al Hilal and replaced him with Jiménez, who hasn’t been the same since that injury.
Don’t know what they were expecting
They were already overperforming their metrics last season so they were due to return back to normal if nothing changed. But instead they replaced Mitrovic who had 14 goals with Jimenez who has had 11 in his last 70 games
They remembered that they were Fulham.
No mitro replacement is the major difference. Ream hasn’t been as good this season (not his fault at all just getting older) and bassey has shown a lot of promise but needs much more time to adapt. Our wingers not having a striker to link up with or cross the ball into the box to has effected them and peereira is also really struggling from not really having a striker to link up with.
The root of almost all problems is us not having a striker. If we get a suitable mitro replacement in Jan we’ll be perfectly fine, if not I still think we’ll survive but you never know. Worrying times but no need to panic. Yet
I had a cheeky tenner on them to go down at the beginning of the season
Simple.
Overperformed last season, and are a worse squad this season.
Prime reason for overperformance was mitrovic goal scoring.
They’ve replaced him with flat out bad players.
They lost the main outlet to goals without a plan around it
They signed Raul Jimenez
Second season syndrome….
Mitrović left simple 😀🇷🇸
Three points of difference helped Fulham last season:
Mitrovic - goal scorer, gone.
Palhinha - elite defensive midfielder when he doesn’t look frustrated that he’s playing for Fulham.
Silva - fantastic in game manager who can adapt as needed; it is said he is very intense on the training pitch and this can get old for players if he doesn’t have the charisma to keep them hungry for the work.
The hardest three positions to recruit for in football currently - striker, defensive midfielder, manager. Last season they had all three, this season they lost one, may lose the second come January and the third may be losing effectiveness without some type of shakeup.
2nd season back
They’re only good when they have ten men. (Sad third place noises)
I don’t think it’s difficult to understand if you watch their games this season. They create plenty of chances, they are solid at the back they just can’t put it in the back of the net.
A team like Fulham can’t have multiple good strikers in the wings, it leaves them open to falling hard when a striker leaves. You got to get lucky and find a good replacement.
They will be fine this season but they got to be spending all their efforts identifying a striker to bring in the summer at the minimum.