'Congestion offers chance to do something special this season'

Fulham are annoying. That is what the 19 other clubs in the Premier League must think because, under Marco Silva, we are always going to give it a right go.

And, increasingly, we are coming out of games with something to show for it.

You rarely get an inept performance from this side. But when you do - as against Wolves - the reaction is longer and louder.

Our point against Arsenal on Sunday came just three days after we took all three against Brighton at Craven Cottage, and means we've taken five points from nine since our Wolves capitulation - all against top 10 sides.

Yet, the Premier League remains so congested that we sit just outside that top 10, despite being only six points off second place.

This congestion offers clubs like us the chance to do something special this season. Remain competitive, and you will rise up the table quickly.

We will fancy going to Anfield next weekend and pushing league leaders Liverpool, as we did in the Carabao Cup semi-final last season.

However, we will have to do it with a makeshift centre-back pairing of Issa Diop and summer signing Jorge Cuenca because Joachim Andersen remains injured and Calvin Bassey will miss out after picking up his fifth yellow of the season against the Gunners.

Our record Premier League points tally is 53 and our highest top-flight finish is seventh, both achieved in 2008 under Roy Hodgson. We still needed the Fair Play League to get into the Europa League back then, but we all remember what happened next, don't we?

That is the most exciting thing about this Marco Silva Fulham side. We are more than capable of beating that points total and final placing. And after that? There is no limit.

Of course, there is a long way to go. But we are on track to break some records - and there is absolutely nothing annoying about that.

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