Fulham boss Marco Silva has revealed the brilliant strategy used to break through Nottingham Forest’s defence before leading the Cottagers to a 2-1 victory.
“We expected them to play with five at the back and three in midfield. We knew the space would be definitely on the outside,” said the Portuguese, who had 24 shots, 10 on target and an xG of 2.24. Adama Traore
created fear for Neco Williams สมัครสมาชิก UFABET วันนี้ รับเครดิตฟรีทุกวัน down the right, while Raul Jimenez dropped further forward at times to allow his team-mate to move in behind. Their combination enabled Emile Smith Rowe to head home the opener.
“The first goal is something we have always tried to do, with wingers there to create an advantage,” Silva said of Smith Rowe’s movement, who ran to the far post to meet Traore’s curling cross. “
Raul (Jiménez) was not where he normally should be, but the movement of Emile and Adama’s great assist was what we were working on. You could see there were a lot of moments like that throughout the game, Sasa Lukic did that in the first half as well and was in the same position. “
We know they’ve got three big players there in defence but if you make the right move and the ball comes quickly then it’s a really difficult position to defend and we took advantage of that.”