Like I said on the Fulham Fix, the way we’ve been playing was giving the fans hope, we just weren’t getting the results our performances merited. But the last couple of weeks have been great for us, and that hope is getting stronger and stronger. It’s not just that we’ve got a glimmer of hope, we’ve got a real chance now. The lads are playing so well, and to take seven points in seven days is amazing, what a return that is from difficult fixtures.
To go away to a place like Everton, when they’re riding high, win 2-0 and play them off the park, is fantastic. When you get a result like that it’s so hard to back it up, but we did that with a solid point in Burnley, which you’d take all day long before the game as they’re so hard to play against. And then we got a gritty 1-0 win against another side in the relegation zone. It’s a great turnaround, but I had been feeling that this was coming.
Goodison Park and Turf Moor have always been bogey grounds for Fulham, and I think a lot of people would have written us off ahead of those matches, so for us to get four points away from home in the space of a few days is great form. Then we had Sheffield United, who haven’t been playing badly. They’ve won a fair few games over the last couple of months, even going to Manchester United and turning them over. Clean sheets are what’s going to keep us in the Premier League, so it was brilliant to get another one in the bank on Saturday.

The Blades were so defensive that it was difficult to break them down, but the lads remained patient and kept faith that we’d put a chance away when it came, and so it proved. You know what you’re going to get when you come up against teams like that, so it’s just a case of staying in the game and biding our time, because we know we’ve got the quality.
Crystal Palace also won their last match but I can’t see us going to Selhurst Park on Sunday with anything other than a mindset of trying to win. They struggled to create much against Brighton but, to their credit, stayed in the game and put away the two openings they did manage to have. The stats about how much they struggle without Wilfried Zaha were doing the rounds before the game, so they’ll be pleased that they’ve shown they can win without him. But that said, I reckon right now confidence is as high as it’s been all season, so I fancy us at the weekend.
After that, the run of Tottenham, Liverpool and Manchester City looks awful on paper, but I don’t think any of those sides will relish the idea of facing us right now. Anyone can beat anyone in the Premier League this season. We’ve already shown what we’re capable of against those sides. Okay, Man City beat us, but we should’ve seen off Liverpool, and Spurs was a good example of how we stayed in the game until an opportunity to equalise came our way. With the quality in our side, we’ve always got someone who can provide a bit of magic for us to score a goal.