Fulham Boss Marco Silva Reflects on Tottenham Draw and Tom Cairney’s Red Card

Following his team’s away draw against Tottenham, Fulham manager Marco Silva shared his thoughts with BBC Match of the Day, stating: “I think that everybody should recognise that the team who deserved to win this afternoon was ourselves. We deserved to win.” Silva continued, adding: “We played our way, with our identity, on the pitch. Myself, the players and the fans should be proud of it. We should have been leading the score with the chances we had. We have to be realistic, Tottenham had chances as well.” Addressing the red card issued to Tom Cairney, Silva remarked: “Firstly, I know him. Tom Cairney is not the player for that, everybody knows. I have to be realistic and honest with you, everybody knows I am the first one asking him to be more aggressive in the right way, to keep some principles as a midfielder in that situation, but he is not the type of player to do that type of thing.” He further elaborated: “He stamped on his leg and, of course, looking through the images it should be a red card and we have to accept it, knowing that Tom Cairney was really unlucky because he is not that type of player.” Regarding his team’s response after being reduced to 10 men, the manager stated: “What a reaction from us. The reaction was good – 15 minutes with 10 men and the reality is that Tottenham didn’t create one chance.”