Marco Silva spoke about Fulham facing Liverpool at Anfield on Saturday in the late kick-off.
The Cottagers have climbed back into the comfort of mid-table after a sluggish start to the season in terms of results, and they will fancy their chances against the fallen Premier League champions.
Silva’s side sealed a point at Craven Cottage in the first fixture of 2026 when Harrison Reed scored a screamer in injury time of the second half, and they will take confidence from that contest.
‘We want to be competitive’
“It is always a real opportunity. Because, as you mentioned, the last results against them, the last performances, last games, they have been very, very good – good performance, some good results from us, very, very competitive always, home and away, and this is what we want to be again.
“Of course, all the clubs, they have ups and downs. In a big club, any defeat probably hurts more.
“A defeat is always a defeat, I know, and I had this conversation with our players, for example, after the two defeats that we had in a row [against West Ham and Southampton] in a short period of time before the Nottingham Forest game.
“With other clubs and other players and other managers, it’s the same thing. It’s part of a season. Of course, it’s always the way you are going to react for the bad moments that is going to be decisive.”
“We come from a good result [against Burnley], we come from a result where we were losing and we won the game in a good way at home. We went for the international break with three points, massive three points in my opinion, for us.
“And let’s hope we can start in the same way against a very, very good side – with the bad run, it’s true. They lost three games in a row in different competitions, and if it’s going to have an impact or not in the game, we don’t know.
“We prepare for the best Liverpool possible. We want to be competitive like we did show last season, against them this season already [too], and let’s hope we can repeat the same type of performance.”