Sport | Football Fulham manager Marco Silva conceded his side should have finished the season in a stronger fashion. The Cottagers ended another solid campaign in 13th to confirm their third successive season of Premier League football but were unable to follow up on last year’s top-half finish. A run of only two wins in nine games following the March international break saw the season peter out somewhat having previously looked on course to at least match last year’s finishing spot in tenth.
“We all know how it’s been tough for us, how it’s been challenging for us as well, but the way we have been getting this job done has been really enjoyable for all of us,” said Silva after Sunday’s 4-2 win over Luton. “This season – I’ve been saying to you, but I will say it again – when we have been playing at our best level, we have been really strong, enjoyable to see, to watch, and achieving great results for the football club. “I cannot hide to you, in one moment of the season, before the last international break, my ambition, my feeling, I expected us to fight for something more.
“You know myself, I’m always a really ambitious person, but not just because of ambition, because of what I see every single day in the training sessions. For many reasons [it didn’t happen], and that is for me to analyse why and to take the conclusions that I need. Still, while Silva has lofty ambitions at the club, he did concede that losing star striker Aleksandr Mitrovic l.
