Fulham boss Marco Silva believes Tottenham's squad will be full of confidence going into Sunday's fixture at Craven Cottage.
Spurs kept their hopes of European glory alive with a 3-2 aggregate win over AZ Alkmaar to reach the Europa League quarter-finals on Thursday night, overcoming a 1-0 first-leg defeat. That result follows Tottenham's comeback against Bournemouth, where the Lilywhites came back from 2-0 down to draw 2-2.
“Last Sunday a tough first half, great reaction in the second half,” Silva told Fulham TV. “Then (in the Europa League) to be able to turn around the defeat from the first leg and they went through in the competition.
“And you know when you go through in an important competition and you go through the final stages, you know that gives you the confidence. I don’t need to say, they recognise the last two, three months for them in terms of results have not been the best, but more than all of us they know why, and of course if they have a lot of injuries it’s always much more difficult to handle and cope with that situation.”
Silva hopes to have Adama Traore back available after he missed their defeat to Brighton, but Spurs’ visit comes too soon for Harry Wilson, Kenny Tete and Reiss Nelson. Sasa Lukic also misses out through the second match of his two-game suspension for picking up 10 yellow cards this season.
“Right now we have three, four players out and it’s really tough to deal with it,” Silva continued. “Imagine when you have eight, nine, 10 players out (like Tottenham), what can I say?
“If they are at their best level they are a very, very good side, a lot of individual quality. They are brave the way they play, they are an aggressive side on and off the ball.
“That for us is clear. We like to have this type of challenge ahead of us, and we go into the game with the intention to win.”
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