‘The reality is that we didn’t lose the confidence’

Fulham boss Marco Silva following the 2-1 win over Brentford: “We definitely deserved the three points. No doubts about it.

“We saw a little bit of what has been our season so far – being dominant in most of the games, the best team on the pitch most of the games and creating much more chances than the opposition side. But the reality is that, in some moments, we didn’t get so far the points that we deserve from the game.

“From the first minute, on the front foot was Fulham. First 20 minutes of the game, I think we did create two or three clear chances to score. And from nowhere – they didn’t have anything until that moment – the shot 25 yards from the goal, and they scored.

“The reality is that we didn’t lose the confidence. We tried and tried, kept pushing them back and trying many different ways to score, and the result was really unfair at half-time.

“I told the players that we have to keep pushing hard, and it’s going to be tough for [Brentford] to keep always blocking everything. I have to give credit to them. They defended really hard their box – 10 players always around their box, a lot of bodies there. But the reality is that we didn’t give up.

“Normally, Harry Wilson plays more on the right-hand side. In that moment, we tried him a little bit closer to Rodrigo in the pocket areas to arrive. We know that he smells it – he has good timing to arrive in the box. We were rewarded for that.”

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