Our prediction for this Championship match:
All eyes will be on the Hawthorns when West Bromwich Albion and Fulham go head to head in the Championship derby on Tuesday evening. The Baggies were producing fine displays at the start of the season, but they do not seem to be at their sharpest ahead of the visit of Fulham. Since WBA are seven points behind the playoffs berth, this has to go down as yet another must-win game for them.
Both Daryl Dike and Kean Bryan are sidelined with injuries, but there are no suspended players in the home team. The Cottagers, on the other hand, are leading the chase for automatic promotion. The league leaders are 14 points clear of third-place Huddersfield, meaning that the hosts want this win more than the visiting side. The likes of Neeskens Kebano and Terence Kongolo should be the only absentees in the away side.
Highlighted Player (Callum Robinson):
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Born in Northampton, Callum Robinson started his career at Aston Villa. Having gone through the youth ranks with the Villans, Robinson was given his first-team debut in 2013. As a product of the Aston Villa academy, Robinson unfortunately never got a chance to prove his worth at the club and ended up playing no less than 4 league appearances during his three-year stay at Villa Park.
Various loan spells – at Preston North End on two occasions and Bristol City – brought mixed fortunes for the striker up until 2016 when he sealed a permanent move with the Lillywhites. Robinson represented England at U16, U17, U19 and U20 levels but raised plenty of eyebrows when he declared for the Republic of Ireland in March 2018 through his late grandmother who was from Monaghan.
The striker made his senior team breakthrough in Republic of Ireland’s 2-2 draw with Celtic in Scott Brown’s testimonial match and will be hoping to prove doubters wrong and prove his motive is bigger than career opportunism.
Highlighted Team (Fulham):
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Fulham are a club from London that play in the Premier League. The capital club dropped to the English second tier at the end of the 2013/2014 Premier League campaign after failing to impress in the elite competition, but managed to return in season 2018/2019.
Fulham were founded in 1879 and they play their home matches at Craven Cottage. Fulham are the oldest-established club from the English capital to have played in the top flight.
Fulham finished the 2008/2009 Premier League campaign in seventh place in the standings and that is considered the team’s biggest success, speaking of their participation in the Premier League.
The Cottagers played in the Europa League twice and they did well to reach the FA Cup final in 1975, but they were beaten by their local rivals West Ham United in the title game (0-2). Chelsea are regarded as Fulham’s bitter rivals as well and the two teams take on each other in the North London derby.