Fulham, winners of final season’s Championship, host Premier League and Champions League runners-up Liverpool on Saturday lunchtime.
Marco Silva’s Cottagers cantered again as much as the highest flight on the first time of asking final time period, sending scoring information tumbling within the second tier. Liverpool got here inside two outcomes of quadruple perfection however ended the marketing campaign dissatisfied regardless of claiming each home cups.
Here is every thing it’s good to know in regards to the conflict between two groups used to successful.
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Channel: BT Sport Final
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H2H Outcomes (Final 5 Video games)
Fulham: 1 Win
Liverpool: 3 Wins
Attracts: 1 Draw
Present Type (Final 5 Video games)
Fulham: LWLWD
Liverpool: WWLWL
Fulham workforce information
Fulham‘s hero from their earlier promotion push in 2020, Joe Bryan, is nursing a metacarpal fracture which is anticipated to maintain him out of the opening weekend’s fixture. Nathaniel Chalobah was compelled off with an damage throughout a behind-closed-doors pleasant on the finish of July which leaves his involvement shrouded unsure.
A knee damage to Harry Wilson on the eve of the season has robbed Fulham of the Championship‘s main assist-provider final season – and denied the 25-year-old a reunion together with his former membership.
Given the shortage of upheaval a brief hop throughout London would trigger, Silva might hand a debut to the previous Arsenal goalkeeper Bernd Leno a matter of days after his buy.
Fulham Beginning 11: Leno; Mbabu, Tosin, Ream, Robinson; Palhinha, Reed, Cairney; De Cordova-Reid, Mitrovic, Kebano
Bench: Rodak, Tete, Kongolo, Pereira, Onomah, Cavaleiro, Muniz
Liverpool workforce information vs Fulham
Diogo Jota might have inked a brand new long-term cope with Liverpool however is unlikely to characteristic within the short-term whereas lumbered with a thigh criticism. Backup keeper Caoimhin Kelleher is about to overlook the opening weeks of warming the bench after sustaining a problem on worldwide responsibility however the first-choice Alisson is anticipated to return following a watching transient for the Group Protect final weekend.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s weighty damage historical past is getting one other chapter because the English midfielder sustained a “severe” hamstring downside throughout preseason.
Liverpool Beginning 11: Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Matip, Van Dijk, Robertson; Henderson, Fabinho, Thiago; Salah, Firmino, Diaz
Bench: Adrian, Gomez, Keita, Milner, Carvalho, Elliott, Nunez
When quizzed about Fulham’s preparations following their closing preseason pleasant, Silva delivered a blunt and bleak evaluation: “We, as a squad, should not prepared.”
Few groups, no matter measures they take, have confirmed able to face Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool lately; with reigning Premier League champions Manchester Metropolis the most recent to return unstuck simply final Saturday.
It is hardly an outrageous declare to recommend the second-tier champions might fare even worse this weekend.
Prediction: Fulham 0-3 Liverpool
