Eddie Johnson is back on the bench for Fulham, while Clint Dempsey starts. Dembele and Kamara are back in the starting lineup for Fulham, so I would expect Clint to be back in the midfield today. Fulham: Schwarzer; Baird, Hangeland, Hughes, Salcido; Davies, Greening, Murphy, Dempsey; Dembele, Kamara. Bench: Stockdale, Kelly, Pantsil, Gera, Riise, Eddie Johnson, Halliche.
Looking at Tot's bench, basically every single one of them would be a starter for the Whites. This match comes down to whether the combination of Greening, Davies, Salcido and Hughes can contain VDV. I have faith in Salcido locking down VDV. He will take it as a personal challenge. Would feel much better if Etuhu was in there to control the match. Greening is not fast enough and is far too reckless with his tackling. Never much cared for him, though as a thorsten frings look alike he has promise.
Ha, we had 3 guys all starting Fulham threads at nearly exactly the same time. I think schrutebuck won by a nose.
Concedes a corner. Clint always plays the Spur tough. I remember that one affair where DCM Instant Kamara scored off a 18 foot bicycle kick for the draw in the dying moments of the match. Dempsey was MOTM in my opinion that day. Maybe his best day ever.
dempsey with a bad touch. looks like he is playing LM. Where he belongs. Greening, bad tackle leads to Tot run and shoot right down the middle. that will be their undoing today, I think.
"Sometimes Kamara is a little bit dozy." Yep. Poor giveaway by Clint in the offensive third leads very quickly to a counter.
Kamara with an open header on a corner, he places it wide of goal. The announcer isn't too happy with that header, thinks he should have easily scored.
That's why they call him DCM Instant Kamara. He requires hours in a dark room with plenty of chemicals to develop.
There's a reason he's a center back who hasn't scored in 6 years... I can't get too upset with him for that miss.
Great control from Clint as he drives the ball across the face of goal for Kamara to tap in. And then Fulham give a goal up right away.
Holy crap! Dempsey with pure class taking on two defenders in the 6 then crossing it to Kamara for a sitter. 1-0 And then they inexplicably give up the equalizer. Um, OK. 1-1