Following Saturday’s bruising encounter against Wolves, Mousa Dembele spoke of his satisfaction at securing all three points and maintaining the Club's unbeaten start to the season.
Dembele’s 90th minute free-kick earned Fulham victory on what was a bitter-sweet afternoon but the Belgium international was delighted his Team played their way to victory.
“We had to win the game on Saturday and I’m very pleased we did,” Dembele told fulhamfc.com. “If we didn’t win it was really no good for us. Games like that are the ones we really have to win.
“It was not an easy game against Wolves but you could see we were the better team. We just had to finish it and thankfully we did. It’s normal in football to have a battle and our match against Blackpool was a similar game – they were both very physical matches.
“It was a good game on Saturday and it was important for us to keep playing our own game. We have the players to play nice football. All the big teams play their football and the other teams have to adapt – we should also do that.”
Fulham’s win on Saturday was soured by Bobby Zamora’s first-half injury and Dembele was clearly saddened to see his fellow striker suffer such a cruel blow.
“In the dressing room, for me personally, I was in shock,” said Dembele. “Bobby is one of the most important players in the Team and to lose him to injury is very hard for us. It’s not going to be easy for us now.”
Zamora underwent a successful operation on Sunday and as Dembele explained to fulhamfc.com, his team mates will now share the striking duties until Fulham’s star man returns from injury.
“I’ll play wherever the Manager wants me to play. We have a lot of players that can play up front and behind the attack. On Saturday Clint and I split the work.”