Fulham fell to a 1-0 defeat to West Ham United on Saturday afternoon.
Despite enjoying much of the possession, it was a Harrison Reed own goal that saw the visitors take back the three points to East London.
Marco made three changes to the side that lost to Bournemouth last week, with Cédric, Tosin and Willian coming in for Kenny Tete, Issa Diop and Manor Solomon.
West Ham got the game under way and came flying out of the traps. Their spell of possession was ended however with referee Jarred Gillet blowing for a handball against the visitors in the penalty area.
Fulham had a spell of their own but struggled to create many chances in the opening 15 minutes, the most notable coming from Andreas Pereira, who collected the ball from a driving run, courtesy of Tosin, and fired a shot at goal but a deflection took it over the bar for a corner.
It was West Ham who took the lead though in the 22nd minute, when Jarrod Bowen cut the ball back into the box, ricocheting off the back heel of Harrison Reed and into the far corner of the net.
We weren’t swayed by going a goal down however, as Fulham enjoyed most of the possession before in the 39th minute, Antonee Robinson let one fly at goal that went agonisingly just a whisker over the crossbar.
Despite finishing the first half with 78% possession, we were unable to get ourselves on the score sheet and went in a goal down at half-time.
Two substitutions were made at half-time, with Captain Tom Cairney and Manor Solomon entering the action in place of Reed and Bobby De Cordova-Reid.
It was much the same at the start of the second half as it was in the first, with Fulham having all of the ball but struggling to test Lukasz Fabianski.
The visitors did forge a chance however through Bowen once more, who fed the ball into Danny Ings, before he attempted to chip Bernd Leno but our ‘keeper was quick off his line to block the shot with his shoulder.
Andreas had back-to-back free-kicks delivered excellently into the danger zone but on both occasions, a Fulham head could not get onto the ball.
Kenny Tete’s introduction only saw our crossing output increase and it was a nicely stood up ball that fell to Tom Cairney that led to our next opportunity but again, the attempt went just over the bar.
In the 86th minute, Tosin did well to break away from his marker at a corner to get a header on goal but it was straight at the hands of Fabianski.
Fulham were unable to trouble Fabianski again but Leno kept the score to just 1-0 when he saved Maxwel Cornet’s one-on-one opportunity.
The referee blew for full-time, resulting in Fulham’s fifth defeat in as many games.
