Fulham 2 Saudi Arabia 1 (Friendly) Matt Smith scored twice in a an 80 minute friendly this afternoon and Bryan Ruiz had his first run out. please log in to view this image The players during the game were: Fulham first half (4-2-3-1): Kiraly; Voser, Hutchinson, Burgess, Burn; Parker, Fazlic; Rodallega, Ruiz, McCormack; Smith Fulham second half (4-4-1-1): Kiraly; Hoogland, Hutchinson, Burn, Voser; Chihi, R Williams, Hyndman, Eisfeld; David; Smith Match Report: http://www.fulhamfc.com/news/2014/s...e=Social&utm_medium=AllSocial&utm_campaign=MB
Possible interesting points is Ruiz played and looking at the line up it was quite possibly 3 at the back and wing backs???
I like the look of the set up of the team in the first half, the 4-2-3-1 formation. Change Hugo for David/Roberts and I think that's a brilliant forward line. Having players like David, Ruiz and McCormack all playing off the main striker, these guys will create so many chances during a match. Having Parker and AN Other sitting back and protecting would give these attacking players that bit more licence to get forward. If this is the way Felix wants to play then the signing of Matt Smith is making more sense, a big, strong striker to hold the ball up and allow the likes of Ruiz and McCormack to get up and support him.
I doubt much can be read into this. Burn played the full game, which is good to see. Bryan and Hugo being reintegrated into the squad, also good. And, from some of the other photos, bloody hell Matt Smith's massive!
Not sure I like the fact that Burn seems to have started at left back, but interesting that we could see Fazlic slot in next to Parker for some games. Also glad to see Bryan and hopefully he can remind people over the next few weeks that he is not, in fact, the devil incarnate. I think our first choice team is getting close to set now and I'm very happy about that.
He has a Physical presence, and that will help the younger players in training, as we didn't really have that type of player for them to learn to play against, whilst a lot of the top teams in the League have big physical center-forwards and our center-backs struggled against them, so far.
Here's a video of the goals - least said about the defending on both sides the better but fair play to Matt Smith he got into space and took his chances. [video=youtube;WsxBDG_YVzE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=WsxBDG_YVzE[/video]
