Marco Silva says Fulham need to be at their best to beat Crystal Palace

The 26th round of the 2024/25 Premier League will be staged, and Fulham will face Crystal Palace at Craven Cottage. Marco Silva said that Crystal Palace's performance away from home is very strong, so his team must play at their best to defeat their opponents.

In the last round of the league, after Smith Rowe and Calvin Basey scored, Fulham finally defeated the powerful Nottingham Forest 2-1 at home. After two consecutive wins, Fulham is currently ranked 8th in the standings with 39 points, 8 points behind Manchester City, which is 4th.

As for Crystal Palace coached by Glasner, the "Eagles" had defeated Manchester United, West Ham and Leicester in previous away league games, and kept a clean sheet. The overall offensive and defensive performance was very impressive.

Fulham manager Marco Silva said at a press conference, "Their away record is very impressive. They experienced some lows in the first three months of the season, just like all teams will encounter. But they quickly rebounded and their form returned very strongly."

“They also performed particularly well away from home and won a lot of games. In the last three away games, they even won with a clean sheet. This is a team that will come to Craven Cottage to put pressure on us and they will do their best to fight us. They have strong confrontation ability, so we have to play at our best to beat them.”

In terms of the record of confrontation, Fulham has achieved 2 wins and 3 draws in the last 5 matches against Crystal Palace, including the first round of this season where they defeated Crystal Palace 2-0 away from home with Smith Rowe and Harry Wilson scoring.

"We played well away from home against them, we played a great game and managed to win," said Marco Silva. "Hopefully we can do the same this time because if we can reach that level it will be a difficult game for them."