not saying we were good today by any means, but compared to what we have been we were excellent.
Stats dont lie and we had 18 shots to fulhams 5, 10 corners to fulhams 3, 55% possession, 32% territory in their third compared to 12% in ours. All in all we were by far the better of two distinctly average teams.
Worth noting that this is our 2nd clean sheet since Dunne got injured.
Shay - 6 - had nothing to do
Warnock - 6 - improving slowly
Cuellar - 8 - please sign a new contract, best defender at the club by some distance
Collins - 7 - good today, but always has that mistake or silly tackle in him that can cost us a goal
hutton - 8 - improving all the time and was very good today IMO
albie - 4 - great work ethic but everything he tried didnt work, got into decent positions but crosses were poor. i'm starting to think he may not be good enough
herd - 7 - not a great player but man does he work hard. might have been taken off if we'd scored earlier as he tired after 65 mins
petrov - 6 - good first half but he didnt really come out second half cos he was knackered. should have come off about 20 minutes earlier than he did.
n'zog - 6 - he was ok, tried to make things happen and even tracked back which i never thought i'd see. No idea how he went off instead of albie.
ireland - 7 - seems to be relishing his new role, looks something like the player that lit up the city ground a few years ago
gabby - 5 - i can see his not fit, you can see his not fit, surely the coaching staff can see it too. being kicked pushed pulled and climbed over all game without winning a freekick certainly didnt help
Bannan - 8 - only player we have that can pick a pass when playing deep, and had a hand in the goal
gardner - 8 - strike from distance setup the goal
weiman - 9 - looked dangerous in and around the box, is scoring for fun in the reserves and deserved his goal - deserves some more playing time, perhaps not starting but maying coming on around 60 minutes?
Thought we were positive all game and three positive subs, and some cracking defending. Fulham were poor though, and we still didnt play great football, but it's definitely a step in the right direction.