A meeting of west London’s two best teams of last season, 10th hosting ninth. After a far stormier summer and in losing so slackly at home to Brentford, Fulham look in far greater danger of being unable to maintain previous standards.
Where will their goals come from? On Saturday night the club confirmed that Aleksandar Mitrovic has joined the Saudi Arabian gold rush and will team up with Neymar at Al-Hilal. “He forced everything to leave the club, he wanted to leave the club,” said Marco Silva. Raúl Jiménez, Fulham’s summer arrival and Mitrovic’s putative replacement, has now gone 25 Premier League games without a goal.
