STOKE CITY FC: Established 1863 V FULHAM FC: Established 1879 HEAD To HEAD: PLAYED 72 (Total): Stoke City (27); Fulham FC (30); Draws (15). Goals Scored: Stoke City - 102 (1.42 per game); Fulham FC - 103 (1.43 per game) Stoke Home Form v Fulham: Played 36: Stoke City (17); Fulham FC (11); Draws (8) Previous meeting: Fulham 2 - 1 Stoke (11/02/2012) Stoke City Form Guide: Stoke City FC currently sitting in 14th place on 13 points and joint 2nd lowest scores in the league on 10 Goals (4 at Home & 6 Away) LAST 10 Premier League Games: 2 Wins; 5 Draws; 3 Losses: LAST 37 Premier League Games: 8 Wins; 16 Draws; 13 Losses: FULHAM Form Guide: Fulham FC currently siiting in 9th place on 16 points with a Goals For of 25 (13 at Home & 12 Away) LAST 10 Premier League Games: 3 Wins; 4 Draws; 3 Losses: LAST 37 Premier League Games: 13 Wins; 8 Draws; 13 Losses: LINKS: (A little late, sorry.) [ENGLISH ONLY] Link 1 Link 2
The stats suggest a pretty even match and just hope this will be the Home performance alot have been waiting for! I have gone for a 1-2 Fulham win. Reasons? Just feel that Fulham will be smarting after their loss to Sunderland and although we earned a hard fought point at West Ham we were exposed with some neat passing football. Fulham have goals in them and I expect them to score whilst we have been shy infront of goal and still seem to struggle to create open play chances!
I've gone for a home win, 2-0 I think. We played very well first half against West Ham, the early goal in the second half did us in and we just didn't perform after that. It seems to be a matter of starting well, and carrying on that way, as soon as Adam starts dropping back, either to defend, or to get himself in the game, it leaves Crouch on his own, miles away from everyone else.
I think with Hangeland suspended, Fulham will be there for the taking. He is always a huge tower of strength for them at the back against us and our long balls and crosses. He won everything from Rory's throws. I reckon 2-1 to Stoke.
Brede's been poor by his standards this season, so I don't think we'll miss him much. Mind you, Senderos won't be much of an improvement! We're pretty decimated in midfield with Diarra, Richardson and Kaca not fit and Frei still to come back from his loan too, as well as Ruiz being injured. I don't think any of us is expecting a resounding win, but we reckon a draw is certainly possible, and feel we'll make a much bigger fight of things than we would do in previous away games.
Depends on what mood Berbatov is in. He is quite capable of winning ANY game by himself. Him versus Ryan or Robert will be interesting.
Hopefully we will win and with their CB suspended I would go for 1-0 to Stoke. However it is about time we took more of the chances we create so wouldn't it be nice to see us score 2 or 3 at home? Yet another draw could be on the cards of course!
I agree with Waddo, Last time i saw B H play he was immense for Fulham, won everything... I think (hope) our home form isn't the best by a long way that we will sneek a win on Saturday. Will be a tight game though. U T Ps KTF lads
Any team news as yet lads? Pott's using the wifes profile haha. Tinternet is a bit dodgy so any news would be appreciated. K T F.
Stoke City 01 Begovic 02 Cameron 04 Huth 17 Shawcross 30 Shotton 06 Whelan 15 Nzonzi 16 Adam 26 Etherington 19 Walters 25 Crouch Substitutes 29 Sorensen 20 Upson 08 Palacios 18 Whitehead 21 Kightly 09 Jones 33 Jerome Fulham 01 Schwarzer 03 Riise 04 Senderos 06 Baird 18 Hughes 27 Riether 07 Sidwell 14 Karagounis 09 Berbatov 10 Petric 24 Dejagah Substitutes 38 Etheridge 02 Kelly 08 Kasami 16 Duff 19 Diarra 42 Banya 20 Rodallega
Sandor Thanks for the team news mate. Just got the result here in sunny Madeira. 3 More pts and onwards. Will get back on here later, thanks to my good lady hehe. For opplnions on todays game. Pott's
Potts It may be sunny in Madeira but it is absolutely persisting down in here in the UK, the country is under water! A welcome 3pts this afternoon though, Adam scoring in his second successive home game. Huth and ShawX immense by all accounts and kept Berbatov quiet. I would still like us to bag more goals of course but we are up to 11th with 16pts.
Solid performance if not spectacular! 50/50 possession and 12 shots even though we only had 3 on target - admittedly we hit the woodwork and Whelan and Huth had a couple of close efforts! We created more than Fulham and to be fair they were very disappointing, but we still looked vulnerable with only the 1 goal! I didn't like the subs (as usual) and I still think we are very one dimensional. A good 3 points against a team that will be around us in the league and another clean sheet at home! I think we will have a tougher task against Newcastle on Wednesday! Solid result - onwards and upwards!
