O’Neill looking forward to Sunderland trip to Fulham

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MARTIN O’Neill plans to enjoy his day in London tomorrow but will only be happy if he leaves the capital with all three points in the bag.


The Sunderland manager has confessed that he loves going to Fulham’s Craven Cottage because of its history and tradition.

“It’s a great ground,” he said. “Very picturesque.

“I enjoyed going there as a player, I enjoyed going there as a manager and I’m looking forward to being there tomorrow.

“It’s an attractive fixture for us but we’re about the serious business of trying to win a football match which we need to win to get into the top

half of the table.

“We want to go there and give them a good game.

“But most of all we want to be as competitive as we can possibly be and get the three points.

“It would be nice for us to win a game again because we’ve gone close several times now without getting over the finishing line and with games running out we want this to be a good weekend for ourselves and our fans and most of all we want to come back with the victory.”

O’Neill appreciates that will not be an easy task – especially with Fulham producing such a strong finish to the season and having such formidable home form.

Should Fulham beat Sunderland this weekend in their last game at Craven Cottage this season, they will have won 10 out of their 19 league games on home soil.

“Their form at home has been fantastic this season as it has been for several years and that will be the order of the day tomorrow I’m sure,” said O’Neil.

“They seem to just raise their game a couple of gears when they are at Craven Cottage.

“No-one is disputing that Fulham are capable of beating us but we want to go into the final game against Manchester United next weekend on a bit of a high and that means winning this weekend.”