Fulham midfielder Tom Cairney has praised Marco Silva whilst suggesting that his tactical approach can be a little bizarre.
Fulham have turned in two superb displays in recent weekends.
The 2-1 win away Manchester United was a huge result before backing it up with a 3-0 home victory over Brighton and Hove Albion.
Most of the attention right now is on striker Rodrigo Muniz, who has scored five goals in his last five games to become a real sensation out of nowhere.
Fulham fans will be hopeful of a strong end to the season now, and Tom Cairney has heaped praise on boss Marco Silva.
Tom Cairney on Marco Silva
Fulham ace Cairney has told the Footballer’s Football Podcast that Silva is quite unique in terms of the managers he has worked with over the course of his career.
Cairney noted that most managers he has played under would want his side to keep it tight and protect a 2-0 lead in the second half.
Instead, Silva pushed for his side to keep on the attack and go for more goals to kill the game off.
Cairney noted that Silva would regularly push for this kind of approach in the Championship, which the Fulham midfielder thought was a ‘little bit bizarre’.
Now used to Silva’s methods, Cairney wasn’t surprised to see Silva coming up with ‘ways to hurt’ Brighton at half-time on Saturday.
“I think the thing about Marco, especially the last two years of being with him, he’s the only manager I’ve had really that… you can be 3-0 or 4-0 up and he will say like ‘we need to score the next goal’, which I used to find a little bit bizarre,” said Cairney.
“Most managers that I’ve had have been like ‘oh keep it tight lads, first 15, don’t let them back into it’, but he’s like ‘no no, score again’, and it was a little bit like that at the weekend. We were 2-0 up at half-time and he was coming up with ways to hurt them again,” he added.
Silva will soon come up to three years as Fulham boss and he has certainly been a great success.
Fulham coasted through the Championship and have now become an established Premier League side once again.
Silva deserves huge credit for his approach, but let’s just hope that the links with a move to West Ham United prove unfounded.