Wolves vs Fulham Preview: Team News & Prediction
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Wolverhampton Wanderers earned a potentially pivotal win at the weekend to move away from the bottom three as they now welcome a frustrated Fulham side to Molineux this week.
Kick-off date/time: Tuesday 25th February, 2025: UK – 7:30pm / US ET – 2:30pm / US PT – 11:30am
How to watch on TV: UK – TNT Sports / US – Not televised
How to watch online: UK – TNT Sports app / US – Peacock
Wolves Preview: Improvement under Pereira
In mid-December, Wolverhampton Wanderers took the decision to replace Gary O’Neil with Vitor Pereira. Results immediately improved before drifting, though performances have remained much-improved and they come into this one on the back of a vital victory.
Away at the Vitality Stadium against UEFA Champions League chasing AFC Bournemouth at the weekend, Wolves took advantage of Bournemouth going down to ten men in the first-half by defeating the Cherries by a goal to nil thanks to a Matheus Cunha winner.
Fulham Preview: Inconsistent Cottagers
Marco Silva’s Fulham will believe they have the quality and depth to finish in the top eight and the European spots in the Premier League this season but the Cottagers have been left down by the occasional lacklustre performance at home and that happened again at the weekend.
The Cottagers had won three of their previous four matches before welcoming Crystal Palace to west London the other day and suffering a 2-0 loss at home to the Eagles due to a Joachim Andersen own goal and then a strike from Daniel Munoz.
Wolves Team News: Quite a few absentees
In his pre-match press conference, Vitor Pereira has confirmed that Emmanuel Agbadou, Rodrigo Gomes and Hwang Hee-chan will remain unavailable for this weekend. As well as that trio, the hosts also remain without the likes of Yerson Mosquera, Enso Gonzalez, Goncalo Guedes and Sasa Kalajdzic.
Predicted XI (3-4-2-1): Sa; Doherty, Bueno, Toti; Semedo, Andre, J. Gomes, Ait-Nouri; Bellegarde, Cunha; Munetsi
Unavailable: Agbadou (Injured), Mosquera (Injured), Chiwome (Injured), R. Gomes (Injured), Gonzalez (Injured), Hwang (Injured), Guedes (Injured), Kalajdzic (Injured)
Questionable:
Fulham Team News: Creative midfield doubts
Frustratingly for Marco Silva, midfield duo Tom Cairney and Emile Smith Rowe both picked up knocks against Crystal Palace and will have to be assessed ahead of the trip to the midlands. The visitors remain without Kenny Tete as well as attackers Harry Wilson and Reiss Nelson.
Predicted XI (4-2-3-1): Leno; Castagne, Andersen, Bassey, Robinson; Berge, Lukic; Traore, Pereira, Iwobi; Jimenez
Unavailable: Tete (Injured), Wilson (Injured), Nelson (Injured)
Questionable: Cairney (Injured), Smith Rowe (Injured)
Wolves vs Fulham Prediction
Wolverhampton Wanderers have opened up a five-point gap between themselves and the bottom three and the relegation places in the Premier League and they will be confident of extending that in the final couple of months of the campaign. Fulham need to bounce back at Molineux this week and, with the possibility of playing on the counter-attack more likely, they may well be more suited for this match up. However, given their general improvement and home advantage, siding with Wolves remains the way to go for this one.
Wolves vs Fulham Tip: Double chance – Wolves to win or draw
