The Tanner Report: Stoke City 2 Fulham 3
There is a cliche in football that runs “A cold night in Stoke”.
It is normally applied to the skilful, fancy Dan, footballer who may not fancy it in cold, harsh conditions.
Stoke is certainly a hard place and a team that traditionally gives no quarter.
To win there is never easy and for us this time all the more challenging as we had neither top scorer Alex Mitrovic nor Harry Wilson, who has been in fine form of late.
We could not have got off to a worse start as Stoke opened their account in 40 seconds.
The scorer was Wright-Phillips, the grandson of Ian Wright and son of Sean.
However Rodrigo Muniz almost immediately equalised.
It was a fine goal holding off the challenge of two defenders, swivelling and firing the ball high into the net.
Fabio Carvalho’s heel struck the ball and it trickled in for Fulham to take the lead.
Stoke equalised but Bobby DeCordiva-Reid hit the winner with another fine strike after Muniz headed against the bar.
It was not a vintage performance but the result puts Fulham 8 points clear with a goal difference of 48. Fulham are the top scorers in Europe and look set to break the Championship individual and team records.
All credit to coach Marco Silva.
