Fulham manager Marco Silva is anticipating a tight contest against Nottingham Forest on Saturday, wary of the threats our opponents pose on the break.
Fulham are one of just five teams to defeat the Reds in the Premier League this season, with Raul Jimenez’s penalty the difference in a hard fought 1-0 win at the City Ground.
Asked if he’s expecting more of the same at the Cottage this weekend, Silva said: “Let's see how the game goes. We know really well how Nottingham Forest plays. And in that game, we knew, too.
“Of course, they are really strong on the counter-attack. They are a team that, if the game is completely open and if you are not balanced, they are capable to punish you, because we are going to play against a very good side.
“When you are able to put together, in the same team, Danilo, [Elliott] Anderson and [Morgan] Gibbs White, and with [Anthony] Elanga and [Callum] Hudson Odoi, all in the same XI, these type of players, and with the striker [Chris Wood] that is completely on fire, for sure the best season of his career in the Premier League, of course, everything together makes them be really confident.
“But they know as well that they are going to have a tough task here to play against us at Craven Cottage, because we are confident that we are capable to get the result that we want, the three points.
“It’s probably going to be a tight game – two good sides, sides that want to win. Two different approaches to the game, we know that it’s going to be like that.
“We are going to play against a team that is really strong in the counter-attack, that it’s not important for them to have a long time in possession, because they don't need it.
“They like to have that solid and compact block, and after to try to punish the teams in counter-attacks. It’s up to us to don't go out of our identity as a team.
“We like to be dominant, we like to have the ball and to try to create as much as we can. At the same time, we have to be really careful, because they have this capacity, in the offensive transition, to be a very, very strong side.”