In this match Fulham hosted Tottenham Hotspur, Fulham lined up in a 4231 with defenders Bassey, Adarabioyo, Castagne, Robinson, Lukic, Palhinha, attacking midfielder Pereira, Willian, Iwobi on the wings and Muniz up front.
Tottenham Hotspur lined up in 4231 with Romero, Dragusin, Udogie, Porro at the back, Sarr, Bissouma at the back, Maddison at attacking midfielder, Kulisevski, Johnson on the wings, and Son up front.
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Fulham were ready. At first, their two defenders pushed forward. Fulham's Robathan and Castagne were not bad. Although the two wingers up front, Willian, are older, they are very experienced in terms of technique and passing. Although Iwobi is only 27, we all know that he is young and has been a starter at Arsenal and Everton for many years. In fact, he is already a very experienced veteran in the Premier League. Fulham were in good form today. The two defenders and the winger kept going forward from the start, looking to attack from both sides of Tottenham. At the same time, they should limit Tottenham's offense
23 minutes Robinson has broken into the Tottenham penalty area pass, Muniz has almost broken the Tottenham goal, but the result of the Fulham press on the two sides of their own defense is very empty, Tottenham in fact, if Maddison in the center of the pass smoothly, immediately on both sides of the formation of the attack and shot, Johnson and Sun have a very good in the left side of the 20 minutes or so Johnson and Son both had good chances to score on the left in the 20 minutes or so, and Maddison almost scored directly from 13 yards in the 30th minute.
As a result, with 42 minutes to play, Robinson suddenly played a long direct air pass in front of him from the left, and Muniz went straight up to the box and scored easily from 10 yards out.
Although the ball didn't register as a defender's mistake, it was clearly his problem. Tottenham clearly had all four defenders in pursuit and had held a good formation. However, Marks was completely outpaced by Marks and then easily rushed for 10 yards. Marks didn't seem to make an explosive sprint to increase his speed to stop it, perhaps he may have reached the limit of his chasing speed, but if so, this means that Marks' speed could have completely eaten Marks up
After the second half, Fulham intended to continue to press the Tottenham Hotspur, but I didn't realize that they seemed to have studied something, just over 48 minutes after the start of the second half, Fulham used Iwobi in the right side of the east and west to attract three Tottenham Hotspur players, and then shared the ball to the right side of the Castagne, and at the same time, Lukic began to accelerate the sprint, Castagne saw the time to pass, Lukic suddenly accelerated and shot. Lukic suddenly accelerated and surprisingly shot the ball, the ball is only lifted up the foot to change the orbit of the ball, and did not swing out the whole leg vigorously bombarded the goal, but Castagne's pass seems to have long been predicted, so he passed very quickly, Lukic simply know, so he just rushed up to the point of the foot, even shoveling or sweeping action is not, which is in fact, the key, because Vicario is a very fast reaction goalkeeper. Vicario is a very fast goalkeeper, but Lukic's movements did not look like he was going to shoot. In fact, when Lukic shot the ball, the spectators at the back of the stadium reacted a little bit slower, and everyone did not think that it was a shot, but the ball went in, and Vicario did not have time to save it!
This attacking move was so fluid that Fulham didn't stand his back up in the first half in order to prevent a Tottenham attack. He had to keep up the midfield pressure, resist the counter-attacks, protect his waist and keep an eye on Maddison.How did Lukic suddenly rush forward and deliberately make such a highly concealed shot? This must have been Fulham's attacking program decided at halftime. The fact is that Tottenham didn't defend tightly enough and there was no strong physical pressure from the two at the back.Sarr and Bissouma seemed a different combination from the iron backs they had at the start of the season. Maybe they're a little tired. In these attacks, Tottenham
