Fulham are 16th with 39 points
and their highest achievable position
after Match Day 36 is 14th while
the lowest would be 16th.
- FULHAM play their penultimate home match against a Wigan side still holding on to faint hopes of European qualification from a first top flight campaign in the club's comparatively short League history.
- The Cottagers are chasing a 12th home victory of the campaign. Only the top six clubs also have double figures in the home wins column of the Premiership table. Chris Coleman is hoping his side avoid a 50th Premiership defeat since he took permanent charge, especially as his club need five more points from their four remaining fixtures to avoid this being their lowest ever points return from a Premiership campaign, and a lowest ever finish after ending in 13th, 14th, ninth and 13th in the last four years.
- The club based on the banks of the Thames are unbeaten in seven home League encounters with Wigan (won five, drawn two).
- Not chalked up back-to-back victories in 12 Premiership matches, since Sunderland and Newcastle were defeated at the Cottage on 2 and 14 January.
- Failed to score in two of the last seven.
- Conceded 55 Premiership goals. Only Portsmouth (57) and Sunderland (61) have let in more.
- Completed 16 Premiership matches since a score draw (3-3, home to Villa on 28 December).
- Drawn one of 16 League and Cup matches.
- Lost the lead 12 times in the Premiership - that's more occasions than any other club.
- Lost four top flight games from a winning position.
- Conceded five League goals in stoppage time.
- Premiership matches involving Fulham have yielded 98 goals (43 for, 55 against), at 2.88 goals per game. Only Middlesbrough exceed that average with exactly three goals per game.
- Gained 31 more points at home than away (35 at home, four away) - the widest such dichomany in the top table.
- The first time a Fulham player stays offside, it will be the 200th occasion it's happened to the Cottagers in this Premiership season, according to official figures.
- West Ham, Manchester United, Arsenal and Portsmouth are the only clubs this season to have left Craven Cottage with maximum points.
- If he plays, NICLAS JENSEN will be making his 50th Premiership appearance.
- If involved, Mark PEMBRIDGE will be making his 400th career domestic League appearance (Luton, Derby, Sheffield Wednesday, Everton and Fulham).
- Suspended: Michael BROWN
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THIS SEASON'S REVERSE FIXTURE - 29 October 2005
Wigan 1-0 Fulham |
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Wigan are 8th with 51 points
and their highest achievable position
after Match Day 36 is 7th
(need to beat Fulham 8-0)
while
the lowest is 9th
- WIGAN ATHLETIC renewed hopes of Uefa Cup soccer with Tuesday's 3-2 home win over Aston Villa, but their fate depends on a whole series of favourable permutations and the League results of other clubs. They've managed just one win in five Premiership outings.
- While all but four of Fulham's 39 Premiership points have been picked up on home soil at Craven Cottage, the Latics have notched one more victory on their League travels than they have at the JJB (eight to seven) and accumulated 27 points on the road, and only 24 in front of their home fans.
- The Latics have won only one of 12 League visits to Fulham. Their 1-2 third tier success in west London on 18 September 1990 helped achieve their only previous 'double' over the Cottagers. But it would happen again here if all three points were secured. Athletic beat Fulham at the JJB in October through an injury time goal from defender Pascal Chimbonda.
- Won three of the last seven Premiership matches.
- Failed to score in one of 13 Premier League outings.
- Netted in each of the last eight League matches - three in the most recent game against Aston Villa, and one goal in each of the previous seven.
- Drawn six Premiership matches in their history, but yet to be involved in a goalless stalemate.
- Played 37 Premiership and Championship matches since a goalless draw (home to QPR on 23 April last year).
- Lost all nine top division matches in which they failed to score.
- Won all 10 in which a highest League clean sheet has been kept.
- Won nine of 10 League contests in which ahead at half time.
- Completed 16 highest League duels since a win by more than a single goal (0-2 at West Ham on 28 December).
- Bidding for a ninth Premiership victory on the road.
- Jimmy BULLARD is the only remaining player to have figured in every one of Wigan's Premiership matches.
- If he plays, Graham KAVANAGH will be making his 50th career Premiership appearance.
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| HEAD TO HEAD RESULTS |
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Fulham |
Draw |
Wigan |
| League |
11 |
7 |
7 |
| Premier |
0 |
0 |
1 |
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| HEAD TO HEAD at Fulham |
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Fulham |
Draw |
Wigan |
| League |
7 |
4 |
1 |
| Premier |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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