Fulham 3-2 Liverpool (Sessegnon 23′, Iwobi 32′, Muniz 37′ | Mac Allister 14′, Diaz 72)
CRAVEN COTTAGE — Under a soothing blanket of west London sun, with the champions-elect condemned to defeat and Frankie Valli on the speakers, it was easy to fall in love with Fulham.
Three goals in 14 first-half minutes might well have been peak Marco Silva, the apex of his reactive pragmatism and his side’s exhausting, exhaustive organisation.
Liverpool were so discombobulated they repeatedly smacked themselves in the head trying to lay a hand on anything, losing their first Premier League match since September, and their first away from home in 2024-25.
2 goals in 5 MINUTES for Fulham! pic.twitter.com/rJpHNFFILb
— Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) April 6, 2025
This was also confirmation of a lingering yet unspoken truth of this season. Amid Nottingham Forest’s remarkable ascendency, or Brighton’s status as the paragons of the statistical revolution, or the sound and fury of Andoni Iraola’s Bournemouth, Fulham have become the Premier League’s most underappreciated club.
The most obvious cause is its lack of romantic appeal, whether that’s the constant internecine warfare over ticket pricing, general middle-class connotations of away days with Victoria Sponge and Hugh Grant, or the mid-market tactical blueprint.
With the 11th-best attack and 11th-best defence in the Premier League, from the 13th-highest revenue according to the Deloitte Football Money League, they excel at nothing in particular. There’s nothing to grab onto, no easy narrative.
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Their longest unbeaten league run this season lasted the entirety of December, but featured just two wins and six draws. Beating Liverpool was the first time in over a year they registered two consecutive home league wins. Even on a granular level, only two of their past 56 league goals have come from outside the box. If they stand out at anything, it’s crossing – their 690 crosses top the division, marginally ahead of Bournemouth. Nothing about this is sexy.
But this is only a problem if it doesn’t correlate to consistent results or progress, as remains the case at Crystal Palace. And four points from Champions League qualification with seven games to go, games against Chelsea, Manchester City and Aston Villa give Fulham a decent grasp on destiny.
They have more than earned this right, in the Conference League spot and upwardly mobile. In three seasons they have fostered on-pitch stability despite regularly-changing personnel, and created a financial base to make sustaining European football both feasible and desirable. After a sticky couple of years, they are well within PSR limits and with massive capacity for revenue growth.
For all legitimate criticism of their ticketing policy, it’s been easy to lump in some general mockery of the redeveloped Riverside stand throughout its protracted construction. The spa is already functioning and the £1,200-per-year private member’s club opens this spring. Exploiting the area’s money without exploiting matchgoing fans is the desirable balance they are gradually building towards.
Fulham will take that gift from Andy Robertson
Alex Iwobi with the finish pic.twitter.com/63WWFlMGD3
— Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) April 6, 2025
Of course, there are still failings on-pitch. Fulham average 1.81 points per game against teams in the Premier League’s top seven this season and 1.16 against its bottom seven. They have dropped 22 points from winning positions in 2024-25 – third in the league – and could have done the same here as Harvey Elliott smacked the crossbar.
Silva’s teams tend to start too quickly and exhaust themselves, as true across whole seasons as it is in individual matches. There was a sense defeat in this game, which would have been not just justifiable but expected, might have been enough to effectively end their season, such is the nature of this European race. This squad has looked fatigued to the point of burnout in recent weeks. What they needed was renewed hope and purpose. Here it is.
Beyond this season, Silva’s model looks scalable. The easiest cure for their propensity to tail off is a deeper squad. If they sufficiently dissuade Tottenham, Juventus and AC Milan’s pursuits of Silva, there is a sustainable excellence here. Even the current squad is not at the upper limit of its capabilities – you only have to look at Joachim Andersen’s recent performances or Emile Smith Rowe’s struggles to realise that.
Silva spoke post-match about the challenges in changing the club’s mindset after a decade in which they have spent six seasons in the Championship. This is a serious team with serious ambitions and a serious ability to realise them. If this continues, they will change mindsets far beyond Fulham.
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