With Brentford and Wolverhampton drawing within the early kick-off and Crystal Palace and Everton failing to attain on Thursday, Fulham turned the primary crew to progress to the fourth spherical of the FA Cup with a perfunctory victory over Rotherham United.
On a night distinctly wanting FA Cup magic, {a partially} closed floor hosted a near-silent crowd as one crew who – for all of the slenderness of their successful margin – by no means wanted to interrupt sweat, hosted keen however woefully restricted guests.
Backside of the championship and with out an away victory since November 2022, Rotherham appeared to be ideally suited guests for Fulham. So it will show, besides head coach Marco Silva took no possibilities: aside from Afcon-bound Alex Iwobi, all of the outfield gamers who started in opposition to Arsenal on Sunday had been starters or substitutes.
The group’s measurement and tone steered the general public of South-West London had not been particularly engaged by Rotherham’s go to. And neither had been Rotherham themselves. Having didn’t mount an assault within the first 24 minutes, Sebastian Revan dallied in his personal space. Harry Wilson picked his pocket and the ball spun to Bobby De Cordova-Reid, who expertly curled his second purpose in every week past Viktor Johansson from the sting of the world.