Fulham needed to show maturity, says Silva

Boss Marco Silva felt Fulham were punished for a lack of maturity in their home defeat against Bournemouth. 

Whites centre-back Joachim Andersen was shown a red card just minutes after Bournemouth’s Ryan Christie was dismissed, leaving both sides with 10 men.

“You know, in football, sometimes if the opposition side gets a red card, you have to be more careful. You have to be much more mature,” said Silva.

“I’m not saying that was a clear red card for Andersen. But you have to be more careful – much more mature.

“I don’t want to go very deep on it. I’m trying to see all the images that I can have assessed for that. So far I didn’t see one that showed to me that it’s a clear red card for Andersen.

“Probably they are there and probably in the next few hours I’m going to see. But I repeat again, what I said before, we have to be more careful.”

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The defeat was a crushing blow to Fulham’s hopes of securing a European place.

“Until the red cards, the game was completely on our side,” Silva argued.

“The result didn’t show that because of moments when we weren’t clinical enough.”