Fulham hoping Mitro is firing for AFC Bournemouth meeting at Craven Cottage
Fulham striker Aleksandar Mitrovic remains an injury doubt for Fulham’s home game against Bournemouth on Saturday.
The Serbian striker was a major miss in last weekend’s 3-1 defeat at West Ham United.
The 28-year-old sustained ankle damage while on international duty.
And manager Marco Silva’s post-match comments after the fixture in east London made it sound like Mitrovic – such a vital source of goals for Fulham – is touch and go for this weekend’s fixture at Craven Cottage.
“Let’s see, day by day,” said Silva. “We expected him to be with us [at West Ham] but unfortunately the last two days he didn’t feel so well.
“We have to keep checking him, assessing him, to see when he can start working with the team again.”
Carlos Vinicius started in the absence of Mitrovic against the Hammers and struggled to get any joy against Craig Dawson or Kurt Zouma. The Brazilian was dominated in the air and it was noticeable that Fulham often passed up the crossing options from the edge of the box, something they would rarely do with Mitrovic leading the line.
Silva even opted to bring on centre-back Shane Duffy in the closing stages to play as a targetman, a move which does little to allay fears if Mitrovic is ruled out for any serious period of time.
One positive to emerge from a second successive reverse for the west London club was the return of Harry Wilson.
The former Liverpool winger, who scored 11 goals as Fulham romped to the Championship title, suffered a knee ligament injury at the end of last season but made his return as a 77th-minute substitute, replacing goalscorer Andreas Pereira.
Manor Solomon is still out after requiring knee surgery in August.
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