Fulham boss Marco Silva has admitted being a little baffled with the performance against Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday afternoon.
Fulham headed to Molineux in high spirits after two impressive wins.
A 2-1 victory at Manchester United was followed up with a 3-0 home win over Brighton and Hove Albion with Fulham impressive in both games.
However, Fulham fell flat away at Wolves after squandering great chances through Harry Wilson and Tosin Adarabioyo.
Rayan Ait-Nouri and Nelson Semedo put Wolves 2-0 up before Alex Iwobi pulled one back late on for Fulham.
This was a huge disappointment after such impressive displays of late and boss Silva seemed a little bemused.
Marco Silva on Fulham display
Silva told Fulham’s official website that he really didn’t like how Fulham started the game and made it clear at half-time that they needed to play ‘completely different’ to start the second half.
Instead, Wolves took the lead just seven minutes into the second half and almost immediately put Fulham on the back foot.
Silva felt that the start to the second half was ‘really strange’ because the message had been ‘reinforced’ at the break.
Silva wanted Fulham to start quicker after half-time and dominate possession, but felt Fulham played in the ‘opposite’ manner.
Going 2-0 down effectively killed it off and Fulham just couldn’t get back into the game, leaving Silva frustrated.
“I was not happy with the way we started the first-half, the first five minutes, and I told the players that we had to start the second-half completely different,” said Silva. “It was something that we reinforced at half-time and it’s really strange the way we started the second-half because we were aware that we had to start much quicker with much more of the ball.”
“The reality was that we started the complete opposite of how we should and they punished us. We did create chances but it was much more difficult after 2-0,” he added.
Fulham created more than enough chances to get something out of this game.
23 shots compared to Wolves’ eight, seven shots on target compared to Wolves’ three; this game was there for Fulham to win.
Silva seemingly believes that the start to each half was the main factor but just a little more sharpness in the final third could have at least earned Fulham a point.
It wasn’t to be though and Fulham must now look to get back on track against Tottenham Hotspur next weekend.