Kick-off: 2000, 23/01/2023
Stadium: Craven Cottage
TV: Sky Sports
Tottenham suffered a second-half collapse versus Manchester City but had shown enough to suggest they can prove too strong for Fulham again.
Spurs have won seven of the last eight meetings between these London teams and have prevailed on six straight trips to Craven Cottage.
We’re backing Antonio Conte to lift his side and 23/20 for an away win is our first Fulham vs Tottenham prediction.
Fulham Odds
Admittedly, it is a long time since Fulham were better placed in England’s top flight.
They returned from the World Cup break with four consecutive league victories and were unfortunate to taste defeat at high-flying Newcastle.
Aleksandar Mitrovic appeared to have broken the deadlock against his former club but was adjudged to have accidentally touched the ball twice when taking a penalty.
Alexander Isak went on to claim an 89th-minute decider at the other end with a point-blank header from Callum Wilson’s cross.
Marco Silva was left feeling aggrieved that Dan Burn wasn’t sent off for a tug on Andreas Pereira in the box.
He said: “The game would be completely different if you play it with 10 players from that moment.”
The fact remains, though, that the Cottagers have had six encounters with top-five teams this term and lost them all.
Five of those defeats were by a one-goal margin and 29/10 for that to happen again stands out from the Fulham vs Tottenham odds.
Last Fulham line-up: Leno, Tete, Kurzawa, Ream, Diop, Reed, Decordova-Reid, Pereira, Willian, Palhinha, Mitrovic.
Tottenham Hotspur Odds
Tottenham matched City throughout the first half at Etihad Stadium on Thursday and were rewarded with goals from Dejan Kulusevski and Emerson Royal just before the break.
However, Julian Alvarez and Erling Haaland hit back early on in the second period before Riyad Mahrez’s double gave the Blues a 4-2 triumph.
That was a third loss in four Premier League matches for Spurs but contained more encouraging signs than last weekend’s derby defeat by Arsenal.
Conte has raised doubts over his long-term future at the club but said: “I want to improve the team and the club with my vision, with my ideas, with my suggestions.
“My task is to be part of this process and try to, with a team in transition, to start to become solid and to build a solid foundation and try to build a team ready to fight to win.”
Similarly to Fulham, Tottenham have lost five straight encounters with teams above them in the table, but that feels like a psychological issue, rather than having any technical limitations exposed.
Spurs threatened to score almost every time they attacked against the Cottagers on home turf earlier this season, when having 23 attempts on goal in a 2-1 win.
They finished 10-3 up in terms of corners that day and 9/10 for them to lead the way in this department again is added to our Fulham vs Tottenham betting tips.
Overall this season, Spurs are fourth in the table for corners taken with 118, which is 17 more than their opponents.
Last Tottenham line-up: Lloris, Dier, Romero, Davies, Hojbjerg, Emerson, Perisic, Bentancur, Son, Kane, Kulusevski.
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