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Fulham vs Brentford Prediction & Betting tips
After more than three months of inactivity, the Championship will resume with a London derby! Without official matches in their legs, the numbers three and four of the competition hunt for three important points in the battle for promotion.
Fulham:
Before the Championship shutdown, Fulham was quickly on track to reignite West Bromwich Albion and Leeds United in the battle for direct promotion to the Premier League. With Derby County, Preston North End, Swansea City and Bristol City, Fulham had no queasy opponents in the last weeks of February. The Cottagers, however, played out the four games with a total of eight points. Therefore, after 37 games played, Scott Parker’s team is behind by six and seven points respectively on the numbers one and two of the rankings.
Parker hopes that his top striker Aleksandar Mitrovic will be able to record the same figures as during the first part of this season. The Serbian international has hit no less than twenty-three times and is the top scorer of Fulham and the Championship. Captain Tom Cairney follows at a humble distance with eight goals. The 25-year-old striker has easily surpassed his eleven goals from last season. A side note to this is that Fulham was still acting at the highest level in England at the time.
Fulham normally has the attractive way of football. The unexpected three-month hiatus could have a negative impact on Fulham’s tactics, but we have seen at Borussia Dortmund, among others, that the interruption should not be an excuse for not playing extremely attractive football. We’ll see Saturday afternoon how well Fulham has prepared for the resumption of the season.
Brentford:
In recent weeks, Brentford has played some exhibition games to get back to the rhythm it was in the months before the break of the competition. They played twice against a Premier League team and once against another Championship squad: Luton Town, of which they lost 4-2. Halil Dervişoğlu scored with The Bees. The former Sparta player did that earlier in the match won against Arsenal (2-3). The third friendly game was played against another citymate: Watford. The number seventeen in the Premier League won 0-2 against the team of Thomas Frank.
In an interview after the duel with Watford, Frank indicated that the physical status of his team did him good and that it was especially important that many of his players were able to make playing minutes in the exhibition games. Especially in the run-up to a very intensive end of the season, these three fitness games can be essential.
Brentford resumes the competition as number four with sixty points. The Fulham deficit is four points and with a win, Brentford can continue to interfere in the battle for direct promotion to the Premier League. When promoted, The Bees would play at the highest level in England for the first time since the Premier League came into existence in the 1992/93 season.
Fulham vs Brentford head to head matches
14.12.19 CHA Brentford Fulham 1 : 0
14.04.18 CHA Fulham Brentford 1 : 1
02.12.17 CHA Brentford Fulham 3 : 1
29.04.17 CHA Fulham Brentford 1 : 1
04.11.16 CHA Brentford Fulham 0 : 2