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Wolverhampton Wanderers vrs Fulham
Premiership Match Day 37 25/26 at Molineux Stadium
Sunday 17th May 2026 KO: 15:00
Referee:
Thomas Kirk (Yorkshire)
Live on Sky Sports
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Fulham are off to Molineux on Sunday for a Premier League clash with Wolverhampton Wanderers.
The Cottagers are still nurturing hope of qualifying for European competition next season whilst the Old Gold are crawling towards the conclusion of a nightmare campaign in the top flight
Facing issues further up the Premier League rankings, Fulham are in serious danger of being spat out of the race for European football, with the West Londoners winning just one of their past five league fixtures (D1 L3).
The Cottagers' hopes of snatching a top-seven finish were severely dented last time out at Craven Cottage, where a second-half strike from Brazilian starlet Rayan handed Bournemouth a narrow 1-0 success.
As is the case with this weekend's hosts, Fulham have netted just once across their past five Premier League battles, meaning that they have dropped to 11th position, five points behind seventh-placed Brighton with only two matches remaining.
Consequently, Marco Silva's men need to secure their second victory over Wolves this term on Sunday to have any chance of seeing the continental lights later this year, with the Cottagers failing to complete a league double over the Old Gold in the past 46 campaigns.
Only Leeds United (15), Burnley (9) and Wolves (5) have collected fewer than Fulham's 16 Premier League points on the road this season, with this weekend's visitors scoring just 16 goals across 18 away contests so far.
Since a shock 2-1 victory over current Premier League champions Liverpool at Molineux on March 3, Wolverhampton Wanderers have endured a seven-game winless run (D2 L5) in all competitions as they wait for their unavoidable relegation to the Championship.
For a 19th match in this wretched top-flight campaign, Wolves failed to find the net last Saturday afternoon, when goals from Jack Hinshelwood, Lewis Dunk and Yankuba Minteh secured a routine 3-0 victory for Brighton & Hove Albion.
Following that sobering loss on the South Coast last time out, Rob Edwards's sorry bunch remain rooted to the bottom of the Premier League standings, three points behind 19th-placed Burnley and 20 points back from Tottenham Hotspur in 17th spot.
Last weekend's fixture at Brighton resulted in Wolves' 24th league defeat of the 2025-26 campaign, with the proud Black Country club never recording more losses in a 38-game season.
All three of the Old Gold's Premier League triumphs have arrived at Molineux this term, however, Sunday's hosts are winless in their past three home contests, including a defeat to relegation-threatened Spurs on April 25.
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Fulham are looking to complete their first ever league double over Wolves, in what is the 46th different campaign in which they’ve met.
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Wolves have lost their last two Premier League games against Fulham, as many as they had in their previous 12 in the competition (W6 D4).
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Fulham have won their final away league game in each of the last two seasons, last doing so in three consecutive campaigns between 2002-03 and 2004-05.
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Fulham have lost 3-0 against Arsenal and 1-0 against Bournemouth in their last two Premier League games – they’ve not lost three in a row without scoring since December 2023.
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Fulham have drawn fewer Premier League games than any other side this season (6). Only the current top five have won more games than the Cottagers (14), while only the current bottom three have lost more than Marco Silva’s side (16).
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Bernd Leno is set to make his 250th Premier League appearance in this match (currently 148 for Fulham and 101 for Arsenal), just the third German to reach this milestone after Robert Huth (322) and Dietmar Hamann (268).
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Fulham striker Raúl Jiménez is Wolves’ highest goalscorer in Premier League history (40). However, the Mexican is yet to score in any of his four appearances against his former side in the competition.
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Wolves have failed to win their final home league game in any of the last five seasons (D3 L2), since beating Crystal Palace 2-0 in 2019-20.
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Wolves have lost 24 Premier League games this season. It’s their most ever in a 38-game (or fewer) season in their league history, while another loss here would equal their all-time most defeats in a campaign (25 in 1964-65, 1983-84, 1984-85 and 1985-86).
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Wolves have failed to score in a league-high 19 different Premier League games this season. There have been just 10 previous instances of a team failing to score in 20+ in a single campaign, most recently Norwich City in 2021-22 (22).
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Source Carter White at SportsMole/BBCSports