Should the Tractor Boys of Ipswich Town continue to leave Championship foes battered and bruised in their wake, top-flight meetings
with Fulham could be on the menu for 2024-25, but Marco Silva’s men subjected their second-tier hosts to a harsh reality check in the EFL Cup.
For all of Ipswich’s feats in the final third, the Tractor Boys have often forgotten to keep the back door closed, and Fulham took full advantage on Wednesday evening as Harry
Wilson, Rodrigo Muniz and Tom Cairney made the net bulge, and Ipswich goalkeeper Christian Walton will not want to watch the former or latter’s goals back.
Elkan Baggott’s 79th-minute header came too late to inspire a fightback, and a place in the semis will be up for grabs when Fulham square
off with Everton next month, but regaining some much-needed top-flight consistency is now priority number one on Silva’s Cottagers checklist.
Thanks to a Joao Palhinha drive an all-around domineering performance from the touch-tackling Portuguese, Fulham held Brighton &
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Hove Albion to a 1-1 draw in their last top-flight affair, denying the Seagulls their first-ever Premier League win against them but dropping to 14th place as a result.
Three wins, three draws and four losses in the Premier League so far can certainly be described as a mixed bag, and while two of
those victories have come at Craven Cottage, newly-promoted sides Luton Town and Sheffield United were the victims.
