{"id":368670,"date":"2025-08-24T02:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T02:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/368670\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T02:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T02:12:13","slug":"team-news-update-ahead-of-fulham-v-man-utd-24-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/368670\/","title":{"rendered":"Team news update ahead of Fulham v Man Utd | 24 August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FULHAM TEAM NEWS<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>Cottagers vice-captain Antonee Robinson missed the 1-1 draw at Brighton last Saturday, as he was still recovering from the minor knee surgery he underwent over the summer. <\/p>\n<p>Robinson has been working with the team again at the club\u2019s Motspur Park facility, and could be in contention to play on Sunday\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Sessegnon, who is Robinson\u2019s deputy at left-back, was the only other absentee at the Amex Stadium, after picking up a knock in the Londoners\u2019 final pre-season friendly.\n<\/p>\n<p>Calvin Bassey filled in on the left side of defence against the Seagulls, while Fulham\u2019s only summer arrival \u2013 goalkeeper Benjamin Lecomte \u2013 was an unused substitute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to have another session [on Saturday], and we will take a decision on both Sessegnon and Robinson,\u201d said Silva on Friday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn&#8217;t want to take the risk with Sess last week. Calvin did so well [at Brighton] &#8211; [Isaac] Cuenca can play there too\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FULHAM TEAM NEWS Cottagers vice-captain Antonee Robinson missed the 1-1 draw at Brighton last Saturday, as he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[127836,748,393,1592,4884,18,2465,12,99,20,16,15,21],"class_list":{"0":"post-368670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-2025_08_24_craven_cottage_london","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-first-team","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-like","14":"tag-manchester","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-ruben-amorim","17":"tag-search","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-united-now"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115081323766687952","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}