Fulham - v - Leeds United ***Matchday Thread***

[BelfastAndy]

Fulham winger Ryan Sessegnon could start after being named on the bench for Friday's win at Norwich.

Aboubakar Kamara and Oliver Norwood are also options for boss Slavisa Jokanovic, who said his side looked tired in the game at Carrow Road.

Leeds have no new injuries to contend with after ending a four-match winless run against Bolton on Saturday.

Forward Samuel Saiz will be hoping to start after returning from a hamstring injury from the bench against Bolton.

Match facts

The past five league meetings between these sides have ended as draws, with the reverse fixture ending goalless this season.

Leeds are unbeaten in their past three league visits to Craven Cottage (W1 D2).

Slavisa Jokanovic has yet to lose against Leeds as manager, although four of his five encounters have been draws (W1).

Paul Heckingbottom, meanwhile, has lost all four of his Championship matches against Fulham, including two this season with Barnsley; the last manager to lose three Championship games against the same opponent in a season was Lee Clark in 2014/15 against Sheffield Wednesday.

Tom Cairney has had a hand in six goals in his past six league matches against Leeds (four goals, two assists), scoring exactly once in each of his past four matches against the Whites.

Leeds have lost 17 of their past 24 away league games in April (W4 D3), with their most recent victory coming in April 2016 away at Birmingham.

3 - 1 to them.

MOT.

[MrsORichSenior]

Looking forward to hopelesslyoptimistic post match comments from the Cottage.

......... also the views on the 'Leeds experience' from his young son.

A full Putney End under lights massed with our southern support sat in adjacent neutral seats in full roar is quite a nerve tingler

......... so your observations on/off the pitch HO will be of interest,sadly it's touch & go if I'll make it as I'm holed up in high red alert Bruxelles ..........

MOT

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Will be interesting to see how we fair tonight as they have a lot of youngsters in the squad and seek to play attacking football (TC’s approach anyone). Sessignon has been a revelation on the left wing for them and Cairney usually scores against us so let’s see how we go.

Approaching the game more in hope than expectation but Fulham is always a very friendly welcoming ground. I wonder if the stadium announcer will risk derision from the away support again this year by reminding the home support to make best use of the free ‘clackers’.

We managed a draw last year and were bloody awful so fingers crossed!

PS piece of trivia - what or where is Craven Cottage?

[WTF11]

"The original 'Cottage' was built in 1780, by William Craven, the sixth Baron Craven, and was located on the centre circle of the pitch. At the time, the surrounding areas were woods which made up part of Anne Boleyn's hunting grounds"

Courtesy Wikipedia

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

"The original 'Cottage' was built in 1780, by William Craven, the sixth Baron Craven, and was located on the centre circle of the pitch. At the time, the surrounding areas were woods which made up part of Anne Boleyn's hunting grounds"

Courtesy Wikipedia

wikipedia is cheating ;-p

current Craven Cottage is a pub in the ground - it has a balcony overlooking the pitch and you get to drink during the game

[pilgrimwhite]

Peacock-Farrell, Berardi (c), Jansson, Pennington, Dallas, Vieira, O'Kane, Alioski, Hernandez, Saiz, Ekuban

[pilgrimwhite]

subs: Lonergan, Anita, Pearce, Phillips, Cibicki, Lasogga, Grot

[CromerWhite]

Anyone got a link?

[pilgrimwhite]

http://live.shwidget.com/freeplayer/...646421000.html

[pilgrimwhite]

https://www.facebook.com/LufcBanterB...type=3&theater