Summary

  • First top flight meeting between the sides

  • Fulham have conceded a league-high 25 goals this season

  • Cherries have won four of their past six games in all competitions

  1. Postpublished at 2 mins

    Fulham 0-0 Bournemouth

    Bournemouth aren't showing the home side much sympathy, pressing them back early on, as a Charlie Daniels cross flashes across the face of goal.

    Slavisa Jokanovic has tweaked the shape of his side for this match, with Fulham appearing to be playing a 4-4-1-1 with Schurrle just in behind Mitrovic.

  2. KICK-OFFpublished at 15:00

    Fulham 0-0 Bournemouth

    Today's referee Andre Marriner blows his whistle and Bournemouth get us under way - they're shooting fromright to left in this first half.

    If you're just joining us, here's a reminder of how the visitors and Fulham are lining up this afternoon...

    fulham xi
    bournemouth xi
  3. Postpublished at 14:58

    Fulham v Bournemouth (15:00 BST)

    This is Fulham's last home game before Armistice Day, so before today's match Craven Cottage is observing a minutes' silence to mark 100 years since the end of World War One.

  4. 'Goals Fulham concede are embarrassing'published at 14:56 British Summer Time 27 October 2018

    Fulham v Bournemouth (15:00 BST)

    Jermaine Jenas
    Former England midfielder on Radio 5 live

    When I am looking at score lines and numbers I am seeing with regards to Fulham, tactics go out of the window for me.

    You have to really start looking at attitudes and personnel and whether they actually want it. Whether they have actually got it about them to dig in and start getting a result.

    Three goals every week, two goals here, five goals here, it is ridiculous. And it is actually embarrassing as a footballer.

  5. Trouble at the Cottage?published at 14:55 British Summer Time 27 October 2018

    Fulham v Bournemouth (15:00 BST)

    Jonathan Pearce
    BBC Match of the Day commentator

    Forwards can win a match with a moment of individual brilliance. Clean sheets only come through bonded mutual defensive reliance.

    Slavisa Jokanovic unglued the bond that had tied his team together through the grinding promotion campaign in the first game of this season, fielding six new players against Crystal Palace.

    Half of the promotion team had been discarded. Dressing room division! Twenty five goals conceded.

    .Image source, Getty Images

    Bournemouth got it right. They stuck by their promoted team, strengthening gradually into a hardened unit capable of winning four of its last six games.

    If Fulham don't defend soon with an 11-man bond, they'll go down.

  6. Postpublished at 14:55

    Fulham v Bournemouth (15:00 BST)

    The two teams are making their way out to the pitch at Craven Cottage.

    Both sides are wearing their traditional kits, with Fulham in black and white and Bournemouth in their red and black stripes.

  7. Lawro's predictionpublished at 14:53

    Fulham v Bournemouth (15:00 BST)

    Mark Lawrenson
    Ex-Liverpool defender and BBC football expert

    I know people are looking at Fulham and thinking they are in trouble but I am still confident they will get a positive result soon.

    This will be an open game, because Bournemouth are an attacking team too, and I think that will suit Slavisa Jokanovic's side - I am expecting a little bit of a revival at Craven Cottage.

    Prediction: 2-0

  8. Team newspublished at 14:51

    Fulham v Bournemouth (15:00 BST)

    Fulham boss Slavisa Jokanovic makes three changes to the side that lost 4-2 at Cardiff last time out.

    Segio Rico, Timothy Fosu-Mensah and Aboubakar Kamara come in, with Marcus Bettinelli, Calum Chambers and Stefan Johansen dropping out.

    Tom Cairney is named on the bench for the hosts, having only played 26 minutes as a substitute since August because of an ankle injury.

    Fulham XI: Rico, Fosu-Mensah, Odoi, Ream, Sessegnon, Le Marchand, McDonald (C), Seri, Kamara, Schurrle, Mitrovic.

    Fulham graphic

    Meanwhile, Eddie Howe makes one change to the side that drew 0-0 with south coast neighbours Southampton a week ago.

    Full-back Charlie Daniels returns for the Cherries, with Joshua King - who is not named as a substitute - dropping out.

    Bournemouth XI: Begovic, Francis (C), S Cook, Ake, Daniels, Lerma, Wilson, A Smith, L Cook, Brooks, Fraser.

    Bournemouth XI
  9. Mixed fortunespublished at 14:50

    Fulham v Bournemouth (15:00 BST)

    Hello and welcome to our live text commentary as Fulham host Bournemouth in the Premier League.

    It's been a chastening few weeks for the Cottagers, who have conceded more goals than any other top flight side so far this season - including 12 in their last three games - to drop to 18th.

    craven cottageImage source, Getty Images

    But it's a different story for Eddie Howe's Bournemouth, who are flying high in sixth - a position they'll look to consolidate this afternoon in a match where the Cherries will start as slight favourites.

    There are about 10 minutes to go until kick-off in west London, so let's have a look at how they line up...