Those teams: It’s an unchanged team from Wolves, who struggled in the face of West Ham’s counter-attacks on Monday and come up against a side whose strengths also lie in breakaways. Joao Moutinho starts on the bench.
The in-form Aleksandar Mitrovic keeps his place up front for Fulham, but there’s no place for the hamstrung Ademola Lookman in Scott Parker’s matchday squad. He’s replaced by Antonee Robinson.
Antonee Robinson comes into Fulham’s starting line-up for tonight’s game in place of the injured Admola Lookman. Photograph: Catherine Ivill/PA
Jonathan Moss is tonight’s whistleblower with David Coote on “vibes” in the Stockley Park bunker. Photograph: Simon West/Action Plus/REX/Shutterstock
Fulham are without Marek Rodak and Tom Cairney, who remain sidelined with a hand and knee injury respectively, while Admola Lookman is a doubt for tonight. On loan from RB Leipzig, the 23-year-old suffered a hamstring injury in his side’s game against Aston Villa last weekend, but returned to training late this week after receiving intensive treatment.
Wolves are without several key personnel. As mentioned previously, Jonny faces a long spell out, while central defender Willy Boly remains in self-isolation following a positive test for Covid. Raul Jimenez and Fernando Marcal are also unavailable. Joao Moutinho is expected to return tonight after missing Wolves’ defeat at the hands of West Ham through a groin injury he suffered on international duty with Portugal.
Joao Moutinho looks fairly fit in this photograph taken at Wolves training on Wednesday. Photograph: Jack Thomas - WWFC/Wolves/Getty Images
For all the pretty football they’ve been playing since putting their hideously bad start to the Premier League campaign, Fulham remain in the relegation zone and are running out of opportunities to extricate themselves from trouble. Three points behind Newcastle having played one game more, their reliance on the ineptitude of other teams to save them will only reap dividends if they start picking up points.
They have an excellent opportunity to do exactly that tonight and following three consecutive defeats, a win tonight would move them ahead of Newcastle on goal difference and ramp up the pressure on Steve Bruce’s side ahead of their lunchtime appointment with Burnley on Sunday.
Wolves have drawn two and lost three of their past five matches and suffered the devastating blow of losing fan favourite Jonny to a second serious knee injury just a couple of months after returning from five months on the sidelines. The Spaniard is due to undergo surgery next week and we wish him well in his recovery and rehabilitation.
Still five points short of the magic 40 points mark, Wolves are having a poor season by their own recent lofty standards and arrive at Craven Cottage aiming to put things right after a dispiriting defeat against West Ham. Kick-off tonight is at 8pm but stay tuned in the meantime for team news and build-up.
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