This match features two teams living in the basement of the Premier League, Fulham holding 20th place and West Bromwich Albion lying 17th. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
Fulham form and stats
Three Premier League home games done for Fulham, who are not happy collecting 0 points from these matches. It's been an uphill battle for Fulham in their home games for quite some time now, as four matches in a row are lost here. Not since the Sheffield Wednesday game have they avoided the disappointment of defeat.
Fulham's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 1-2 versus Crystal Palace (placed 8th). 1-1 away at Sheffield United before that.
Alphonse Aréola had a busy but productive day in the Crystal Palace match. Despite making eight saves the loss could not be prevented.
This is expected to be a close game, with Fulham perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Fulham as a small favourite), we find four games. Fulham has won two of these, drawn zero and lost two.
The lack of attacking qualities in Fulham means that they have only scored 1 goal in 3 league home games, less than half a goal per match. Defensively there's plenty of potential for improvement as Fulham have allowed the opposition to score 8 goals here at Craven Cottage.
West Bromwich Albion form and stats
The Premier League season is young and West Bromwich Albion, who have the the worst goal difference (-5) away in Premier League, have only just started going through their travel schedule, with 3 away games done and still no victory. 1 draw and 2 defeats so far. The sun doesn’t shine and the birds do not sing for West Bromwich Albion, who have now gone ten games without a victory. The Derby County game was their last win and it’s been a dry spell since.
WBA are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 1-1 draw at Brighton & Hove Albion (placed 16th). Preceding that match was the 0-0 draw at home vs Burnley.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found six similar matches played by WBA in our archives, and the results are: three wins for West Bromwich Albion, one draw and two defeats.
WBA have scored 3 goals on their travels this season, from 3 away games in the league. West Bromwich Albion are struggling defensively in their away games, having conceded 3 goals in these matches.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three Fulham victories, six draws and one West Bromwich Albion win. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  A. Mitrović 2 goals |   C. Robinson 2 goals |  T. Cairney 1 goals |
Fulham missing players
West Bromwich Albion missing players
| Fulham | West Bromwich Albion | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 14 | 8 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 8 | 14 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 83% |
| 83% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 83% |
| 67% | 100% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 50% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 33% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 33% | 33% |
| 50% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 67% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 50% | 67% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 50% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.2 | 2.7 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0.3 | 0.8 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 74 | 39 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 10 | 23 | 51 |
| 18 | 7 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 4 | 11 | 19 |
| 28% | 14% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 27% | 32% |
- All of Fulham's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- All of West Bromwich Albion's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Fulham has the the worst goal difference (-9) in Premier League
- Fulham have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Fulham have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Fulham have lost all their home matches so far.
- Fulham haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- West Bromwich Albion has the most conceded goals in the second half (10) in Premier League
- West Bromwich Albion has the the worst goal difference (-5) away in Premier League
- West Bromwich Albion have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- West Bromwich Albion have yet to win a game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Everton | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 |
| 2 | Liverpool | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 13 |
| 3 | Aston Villa | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 12 |
| 4 | Leicester City | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 12 |
| 5 | Tottenham Hotspur | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 8 | 11 |
| 6 | Leeds United | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
| 7 | Southampton | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 10 |
| 8 | Crystal Palace | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -1 | 10 |
| 9 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -2 | 10 |
| 10 | Chelsea | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 9 |
| 11 | Arsenal | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| 12 | West Ham United | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 8 |
| 13 | Manchester City | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 14 | Newcastle United | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | -2 | 8 |
| 15 | Manchester United | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | -3 | 7 |
| 16 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | -2 | 5 |
| 17 | West Bromwich Albion | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | -8 | 3 |
| 18 | Burnley | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -6 | 1 |
| 19 | Sheffield United | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | -6 | 1 |
| 20 | Fulham | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -9 | 1 |
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