By the end of the 2018/19 season, Marco Silva’s stock was sky-high. Everton had just finished eighth in the Premier League after a strong end to the campaign, narrowly missing out on a UEFA Europa League qualification place by three points.
There was new-fangled confidence in the team and the coaching staff from the fanbase, an element that is desperately absent from the Goodison Park crowd today.
However, within four months of the 2019/20 season, Silva’s reign unravelled at lightning speed. His stock plummeted lower than a Bear Stearns hedge fund and the former Olympiacos boss was dismissed by Farhad Moshiri’s ruinous sleight of hand.
Silva did not enter work again until the summer of 2021 when the newly-relegated Championship side Fulham came knocking. The wounded 44-year-old rejected advances from Turkish giants Fenerbahçe to confirm his appointment to the dugout at Craven Cottage.
Silva still had a point to prove in English football and prove it he certainly has as a free-scoring Fulham have been promoted at the first time of asking, playing some of the most scintillatingly enchanting football in the country this season.
Unlike Bear Stearns, Silva’s stock is now on the up again, and so are the Lilywhites who will play in the Premier League next season, this time hoping to keep the ship afloat for at least another year.
But how did Fulham manage to win the Championship relatively unscathed? This video will be a tactical analysis of the Londoners under Marco Silva. It will be an analysis of Marco Silva and his tactics that were key to their early promotion.
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