Fulham news: ‘Get Adama Traore back out wide scaring defenders’

Fulham never really got going on Saturday. It was a rare sloppy show, their fans will hope just a blip.

One reason could have been they did not find a way for Adama Traore to fire up the afterburners. There are few more exciting sights than him at full throttle. He can frighten even the very best full-backs.

However, Traore consistently slowed the ball down, turning inside and searching for Emile Smith Rowe and Raul Jimenez.

He is at his best when he seeks to skin a defender and drill the ball in – as he did to set up Smith Rowe’s opener in the win over Nottingham Forest the previous weekend.

I would not be too concerned with the defeat, even one as flat as Saturday.

But for Fulham to get back on the European trail, they could do with utilising Traore’s USP.

Get him out wide scaring the defenders and leave the middle of the field to those better suited.