Pereira looking for to ´enhance plenty of issues´ towards Fulham
Regardless of Wolves getting an enormous win over Bournemouth final trip, Vitor Pereira remains to be seeking to make enhancements towards Fulham within the Premier League on Tuesday.
Wolves stay in seventeenth, one place above the relegation zone, however their win over the Cherries on Saturday moved them 5 factors away from the drop.
Pereira’s facet have misplaced simply one in every of their final three matches, successful the opposite two, and one other victory at Molineux, the place they’ve a great document towards Fulham, could be one other large enhance of their combat to remain within the top-flight.
Whereas Pereira was happy along with his facet’s show towards 10-man Bournemouth, he famous Wolves wanted to be at their finest with a tricky take a look at forward.
“[The win over Bournemouth] was good, however crucial is the following one,” Pereira stated. “The subsequent one is towards Fulham, and it’s essential for us. I anticipate our greatest model on Tuesday.
“We will enhance loads of issues; scoring targets after we get alternatives and defending effectively, as a result of it is a excellent staff with an excellent coach.
“They’ve been working collectively for the previous three years; they’re constant and have excellent gamers. However we should take a look at ourselves and compete to get the three factors.”
— Wolves (@Wolves) February 24, 2025
Fulham are aiming to bounce again from a disappointing 2-0 defeat at Crystal Palace on Saturday, which got here after two consecutive top-flight wins.
The Cottagers are among the many chasing pack for a spot in Europe subsequent season, at present sitting tenth on 39 factors, simply 4 factors behind seventh-place Chelsea.
Marco Silva was left dissatisfied by their displaying towards Palace however is aware of his staff will face a problem on Tuesday.
“When you’ve got that sort of sport the place you don’t carry out on the degree that you simply wished, and we must always, after all, one of the simplest ways is to play a fast sport once more,” Silva stated.
“Robust sport away from house, the place we’ve been actually, actually aggressive, reaching good outcomes, having the ability to have excellent performances as effectively and make life tough towards any facet in any stadium of the nation.
“And we need to do the identical factor and, greater than that, react from the final efficiency and the final consequence.”
PLAYERS TO WATCH
Wolves – Matheus Cunha
Matheus Cunha has scored 13 targets in 25 Premier League video games this season, with solely Raul Jimenez ever netting extra in a single marketing campaign for the membership (17 in 2019-20).
Fulham – Alex Iwobi
Alex Iwobi has scored extra Premier League targets towards Wolves than versus another opponent (six), netting in all three of his video games for Fulham towards them.
Straight onto the following. #WOLFUL pic.twitter.com/hY9aYXXEeu
— Fulham Soccer Membership (@FulhamFC) February 24, 2025
MATCH PREDICTION: FULHAM WIN
Fulham have received 5 Premier League away video games this season, solely successful extra within the competitors in 2022-23 (seven). They’ve received their final two on the highway, final successful three consecutively within the top-flight in April and Could 2008 below Roy Hodgson.
Wolves are winless of their final 10 Premier League night kick-offs (7pm or later) since a 4-1 win at Brentford in December 2023 (D2 L8). They’ve misplaced every of their final seven in a row, together with all 5 this season by an combination rating of 15-2.
Nonetheless, that is anticipated to be a good sport, given Wolves’ spectacular current run towards Fulham. In reality, Pereira’s facet are hoping to do the double over the Cottagers for simply the second time within the Premier League after a 4-1 win at Craven Cottage in November.
Fulham have received simply one in every of their final 9 Premier League video games towards Wolves (D3 L5), beating them 3-2 at Craven Cottage in November 2023.
Wolves have misplaced none of their eight Premier League house video games towards Fulham (W6 D2), essentially the most they’ve confronted an opponent at Molineux with out ever dropping within the competitors.
OPTA WIN PROBABILITY
Wolves – 33.8%
Draw – 25.7%
Fulham – 40.5%
