Marco Silva highlighted “the brutal first part”, the Premier League highlighted the entire debut match. João Palhinha was unable to celebrate victory in Fulham’s English league debut against Liverpool, with the Londoners leading twice but the European and English runners-up still reaching a draw. However, the midfielder was one of the best on the pitch, even going so far as to join Team of the Journey. Almost everything went well in the field, almost everything went wrong after the meeting – and then came another lesson.
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“After the game we talk to four or five TVs and then when you’re dressed you still have to go talk to the radio. I liked it, the worst thing was the team bus that didn’t wait for me. I got outside, I was with some fans, looking for the bus and they said that I had already left, they forgot about me I ended up taking a walk from the closet and I went in the material van”, he said in an interview with Channel 11, where he also highlighted the main differences he felt in the first meeting in England.
Fulham’s form allows João Palhinha to slot into the centre-backs in the first phase of preparation and play simpler passes without exposing his blindside, and he also benefits from having Tosin Adarabioyo at his side in the first phase.@lebzygold: https://t.co/lS2q08vdbU pic.twitter.com/PdHyn8vQL4
– Breaking the lines (@BTLvid) August 20, 2022
“I was nervous, it was the first game at home, with a lot of visibility. I felt a different anxiety, I played and it went well. It has always been a dream to play in the Premier League, evolve among the best. From the outside it already seemed extraordinary to me, but being here… It doesn’t stop here, it’s always with a very high intensity, as if it were Sporting-Benfica every day. I know that I am an aggressive player but it is in a good way, always without malice. Here there is more freedom. In Portugal it was more conditioned. In England they celebrate the cuts as if it were a goal. It just makes me hungrier,” he added, referring to Fulham’s 1-0 draw with Liverpool in which he inadvertently stepped on Jordan Henderson’s heel.
João Palhinha’s first Premier League goal. ⚽ pic.twitter.com/REqXSacUqq
— Squawka News (@SquawkaNews) August 20, 2022
In the reception at Brentford -the same one that thrashed Manchester United 4-0 last weekend-, after another goalless draw in the visit to Wolverhampton (and with a Mitrovic penalty saved by José Sá in the last quarter of an hour ), João Palhinha was the starter again and this time he did not get rid of a yellow card, after a loop in the air and an uncontrolled jump that took the giant Ben Mee, but he gave other reasons for celebration that were not cut off: mid the first half, the midfielder went high on a right corner kick scored by Andreas Pereira and scored his first Premier League goal just a couple of hours after the debut of former teammate Matheus Nunes in the English league with Wolverhampton, who fell in London against Tottenham.
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– ONCE Portugal (@ElevenSports_PT) August 20, 2022
The 20′ goal had a special dedication for his wife and for the couple’s first child, who helped Fulham win 2-1 at half-time after Bobby Reid opened the scoring with only 44 seconds left and Christian Nörgaard trim above. the rest. However, the second half still had a lot of history to tell, with Ivan Toney annulling the equalizer by VAR (49′), Mitrovic with a flagrant chance isolated in the area but allowing the defense (66′), Toney even scoring the 2-2 with just under 20 minutes remaining (71′) and Mitrovic himself watching David Raya make a fantastic save on the line (82′) before Score 3-2 at the top of the 90th minute.
I love that Palhinha celebration https://t.co/WV3FiwDa11
— ☯️♈⚛️ (@MaxiEffect) August 20, 2022
The Serb who last year scored 43 goals in 46 games in the Championship reached his third goal in this Premier League in the same number of games, with a real explosion of joy at Craven Cottage and with João Palhinha, who several times complained about the left foot that he had since the start of the game, celebrating behind the goal with the fans who were celebrating whoever was the Fulham’s first London derby win in their last 25 Premier League games, after five draws and 19 losses.
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???? order yellow ✅#PremierEleven #RatersGonnaRate pic.twitter.com/zG5GPyTLxD— GoalPoint (@_Goalpoint) August 20, 2022
Source: Observadora
