Bolton 0-3 Fulham

Will it be four wins out of four or will the run stop.

Will Kevin Davies start against Hangeland - the defender who has had him in his pocket for years, or will it be Klasnic - top scorer and laziest player in the team.

Will Knight be back and Ream play in midfield?

So many questions - what do you think will happen?

A draw, either 0-0 or 1-1 provided Davies and Knight don't start.

At home we can make it 4 on the bounce.

As you pointed out though Sluffster, our biggest problems will be if Coyle sees fit to start Davies and or Knight. Apparently Coyle says "Davies is back to his best" - what ever that means. We all know what happened last time Coyle said that, Davies led the team out as captain and had a mare!

I'd have been happy for Davies to start in place of Ngog, but reading sluffy's post I now remember that Davies never gets anything out of Hangeland. So I'd pick Sordell, go at them with pace.

Unfortunately I'm not sure Coyle has someone like sluffy on his backroom staff so I have no doubt he'll pick Davies.

Fulham have the potential to be a great team and have a few players that are classy like Dembele, Ruiz and one of my favourites, Clint D. But some games they just don't turn up and I'm hoping it's one of them. For me this is yet another game where there's no way of picking a winner from the team sheet - it's all about who does what on the day. Fulham are shaping up a lot better under the Dutch lad who has used his contacts well in the January transfer window, but we need to beat them so I'm hoping the desire and application brings us through. Like us, they're a bit slow at the back so I'd like to see Ngog and Sordell starting even though I know it will never happen.

We simply must win.

The only change i would make would be to bring in Eagles for Klasnic.

I dread these games at the reebok, never seem to be entertaining games. My prediction is a 1-1 draw or them nicking it.

I reckon OC will stick with 4-4-2 with the same back 4 but Eagles over Ryo and Davies over Klasnic.

We always expect to beat Fulham and rarely do.

0-1 Fulham.

Coyle out.

Going for a draw



Fulham not quite good enough to beat us, but we will definitely allow them to score.



1-1

Sordell to get his first goal for the club in a 2-1 win and dedicate it to his Grandmother.

3-0 to Bolton, I can feel the confidence within the camp.

Bogdan
Steinsson Wheater Reem Ricketts
NRC
Ryo Mavies Vela Petrov
Ngog

Eagles, Sordell, Davies, Klasnic, Knight, Jussi,

My reasons being this.

Ngog plays well in my opinion in most games. I can't really complain about him - and I think the more he plays the better he will become.

Klasnic has proved time and again that he can score, but he usually does so toward the end of a game after coming on as a sub.

We have seen enough 90 min sessions of SKD this season to know he is not up to it any more. Having said that he can be an effective super sub - not always but when required.

Eagles best games for us have also been when coming off the bench part way through - for some reason he seems to get more involved and have more in his locker than over a 90 min period.

Ricketts is a better left back at the moment than anyone else we have. He has to play there. Not only that but he and Petrov seemed to have developed a brilliant understanding and their team play together is great.

We look less open with Steinsson and Ricketts at fuull back than when it's Ricketts and Alonso.

See where you're coming from but there's an element of horses for courses here. Fulham tend to play through the middle rather than going wide and defensively our priority has to be to deal with that. We would have to impose our wide game on them and not let them dominate the midfield with the likes of Dembele and Murphy so I think there's going to be a clash of styles - and the winner will be the team that controls the midfield.
Vela could be useful in this game but do you think OC will start him?
I have concerns over our style too. It's nice to have 2 wingers, but crosses for Ngog is hardly playing to his strengths. If we go that way, maybe there is a case for BKD in this one but Haangeland will be waiting. I think OC recognises this and will play 2 wingers but encourage them to cut inside when they have possession but we'll see.
Genuinely think this will be won or lost in the middle of the park

I think we should go with 4-5-1 in this game, Fulham have a decent midfield and much better to the 3 teams we have played recently. Murphy and Dempsey will run the show if we go 4-4-2 IMO.

To be honest my team would be the same as jayjays but replacing Vela with Pratley (if fit), my reason is that Vela hasn't even got a minute of 1st team experience under his belt and I think it would be reisky to put him in at the moment, having said that he has been getting good reviews by coyle so maybe he is up to it.

If Dempsey, Murphy, Dembele and that ex Blackburn/Newcastle Irish tosser are on their game I don't think we have a chance, but I think we could be capable of getting a draw out of this game if we can get a quick goal. Fulham are too much of a Bogey team for us to expect a win, however I hope to be proved wrong

The more I think about it, and the more I look at the league table, the more I think tomorrow will determine our season.

If we win, and we should do with Fulham's poor away record, we'll hopefully put a few points between ourselves and the pack and we'll bring Villa into the relegation battle if they don't win.

Lose, and the pressure will be right back on us.

Really looking forward to this one, come on you whites!

When was the last time we won a league game against Fulham? I can't remember many.

Think was about 2006/7 season, long time, not that confident about a win.

2-2.

I think Coyle will go with a 4-4-2 formation and we'll get beat 0-2.

We need to be as solid as we can defensively. Fulham are no pushovers whatsoever and they have some great attacking players. United even struggled to beat them at OT last month.

I'd play:

----------Bogdan

Steinsson--Wheater--Ricketts--Alonso

Myaichi-MDavies-Ream-ReoCoker-Petrov

-----------N'Gog

I wouldn't be at all surprised if KDavies starts.

OneOinCoyle wrote:When was the last time we won a league game against Fulham? I can't remember many.

11/2/07 at the Reebok 2-1 (Zat Knight played for them hence the win!)

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