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Fulham vrs Tottenham Hotspur
Premier League Match Day 28 25/26 at Craven Cottage
Sunday 1st March 2026 KO: 14:00
Referee:
Paul Tierney (Lancashire)
Live on Sky Sports
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Fulham welcome Tottenham Hotspur to Craven Cottage on Sunday hoping to complete the double over our North London neighbours following our 2-1 victory at the end of November. Tottenham Hotspur supporters will be praying that the 10th time is the charm when they continue their Premier League campaign away to Fulham in Sunday's London derby.
Spurs have failed to win any of their nine top-flight matches in 2026 following last weekend's 4-1 drubbing against Arsenal, whereas the Cottagers prevailed 3-1 over Sunderland in gameweek 27.
Raul Jimenez's double and a late Alex Iwobi strike ensured that Enzo Le Fee's penalty would only prove to be a consolation for the Black Cats, as the Cottagers snapped a three-game losing run in the top flight in some style.
Returning to winning ways allowed Fulham to wrestle back control of the race for a top-half finish; Silva's men occupy 10th spot in the standings before the start of the next gameweek, only three points below Brentford in one of the potential European spots.
Craven Cottage was also kind to the hosts during the festive period, as Fulham picked up four wins and one draw from five home games between December 22 and January 24, but that unbeaten streak came to an abrupt end against Everton in February.
However, Silva's side were 2-0 victors over Tottenham in this exact fixture last season, and their 2-1 win at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in November means that they could complete their first league double over Spurs since the 2003-04 term.
Speaking of teams netting multiple goals away from home, Fulham have coincidentally done so exactly three times in their last four road trips too, most recently hitting an injury-hit Sunderland for three at the Stadium of Light in gameweek 27.
Randal Kolo Muani capitalised on another Gunners gaffe to cancel out Eberechi Eze's opener before half time, but Spurs soon lost their way in the second half, where frequent Tottenham tormentor Eze struck a second for himself in between Viktor Gyokeres's two efforts.
Tudor was under no illusions that the better team won in the North London derby, where there was unsurprisingly no immediate new manager bounce for the Europa League winners, whose top-flight status remains under serious threat as they lie 16th in the Premier League table.
While 19 clubs in the division have won at least one league game in 2026, Tottenham have endured an appalling start to 2026 and could now equal their longest Premier League winless run of 10 matches, set under Ossie Ardiles in 1994.
An away day has proven more fruitful than a home affair for Spurs this season, though, as the Lilywhites have taken 19 of their 29 Premier League points on rival turf this season and have scored twice in three of their last four games on the road in all competitions.
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Fulham are looking to complete the league double over Spurs for just the second time in their history, after the 2003-04 Premier League campaign.
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After winning seven consecutive away league games against Fulham between 2010 and 2023, Spurs have now lost their last two at Craven Cottage by an aggregate score of 5-0.
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Fulham have won three of their last four Premier League games against Spurs (D1), as many as they had in their previous 26 (D6 L17).
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Fulham have only won four of their last 18 Premier League matches in the month of March (D1 L13) but two of those four wins were at home to Tottenham, in 2024 (3-0) and 2025 (2-0).
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Since Christmas, 12 of Fulham’s 14 Premier League goals have been scored in the second half of matches. Their only first half goal in their last seven games was an own goal by Everton’s Vitalii Mykolenko, with Fulham players having 42 shots and accumulating an xG of 4.45 without scoring in the past seven first halves.
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Raúl Jiménez has scored the opening goal of the game in 32 of the 61 Premier League matches he has scored in (52.5%), including in four of Fulham’s last 11 games. Among players to score in 50+ games, only James Beattie has scored the opener in a higher share of matches he found the net (62.3%, 48/77).
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Tottenham Hotspur are the only side in the Premier League without a victory in 2026 so far, failing to win any of their nine matches (D4 L5). It’s only the fourth time they’ve gone through January and February without a league win, along with 1935 (7 games), 1994 (7) and 1999 (6).
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Tottenham are winless in their last nine Premier League matches (D4 L5) – only once have they gone 10 without victory, doing so between January and March 1994 under Osvaldo Ardiles.
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Tottenham played a 3-5-2 formation in their 4-1 defeat to Arsenal last time out in the Premier League – they have won just one of their last 10 league games when playing three at the back (D3 L6) and none of their last six (D2 L4).
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Spurs lost their first Premier League game under Igor Tudor, a 4-1 defeat to Arsenal; only Martin Jol has lost his first two in charge of Spurs, doing so in November 2004. No manager in Premier League history has conceded 4+ goals in each of his first two games.
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Source Ben Knapton at SportsMole/BBCSports