With our next three Premier League fixtures coming against sides below us in the table, it was put to Marco Silva in his pre-match press conference that this festive period is a vital one for his side.
But our Head Coach dismissed the notion that any particular game holds greater significance, with Burnley on Saturday the sole focus at this moment.
“Burnley is the most important one, because it's the next one,” he said. “All the focus is on Burnley.
“We have been working for it, and we analyse the previous game like we do always. We know what we should have done differently that game to be more clinical, to be more ruthless, too, to have the result that we probably deserved from our performance.
“Now we go for the next one, we know it’s going to be difficult, against a team that wants to win the game, like we want as well. Away from home, tough place to go always, and all that stuff, and we have to be ready for it.
“You cannot think ahead of that game, because if [we do], we are going to be in trouble, and you want to be all focused on Burnley.”
Turf Moor has been a hell of a bogey ground for Fulham, with our last win coming in April 1951 – Bob Thomas scoring a brace in a 2-0 triumph.
But Silva has made a habit of reversing records like that, which will be the aim again this weekend.
“I've been in this football club, and I've been trying and learning all the moments and all the challenges ahead of myself, but every single week, as you said, every single week that we play, the numbers are not amazing for us.
“But we have been breaking so many of those numbers as well, it's been incredible. But, okay, I love this type of challenge. I love it, because if the Club didn't achieve it in the past, there is a reason there, and right now we can change the story. Simple as that.
“Massive respect, of course, with Burnley. I know, not just as a Fulham manager, other clubs that I was at as well, that it’s always a tough place to go. This period of the year, probably even more.
“But it is what it is, we have to face it. Some games are more enjoyable to play, other games you have to face the game in a way that the game should be played, being more controlled sometimes, other moments to be under pressure.
“But okay, the numbers are there, and they are there for a reason, but they are there to be broken as well.”