‘I’d be fuming’: Pundit explains why Fulham will beat Tottenham; it will be Mourinho’s fault

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A fired-up Fulham have every chance of beating Jose Mourinho’s Tottenham Hotspur in Wednesday night’s re-scheduled Premier League clash, Gabby Agbonlahor told talkSPORT (9.15am, 12 January).

In these strange and unsettled times, nothing is set in stone; not even the fixture schedule.

Tottenham were slated to face Aston Villa in midweek but, thanks to a sudden COVID outbreak at the Midland giants, it is now Fulham who will be travelling to North London instead.

Cottagers boss Scott Parker was far from impressed with what he deemed a ‘scandalous’ decision, pointing out that his players have had just two days to prepare for a daunting trip to one of the division’s most fearsome sides.

It wasn’t long before the fork-tongued Mourinho responded, of course, with all the subtlety of a herd of rodeo bulls at Antiques Roadshow.

“If they come with half of the team, I will be the first one to apologise to them. And I will be the first one to say we played this game with an advantage. If they come with their best (team), I think they should apologise to all of us,” Mourinho said, via the Standard.

“Come on, let’s play football. Let’s behave the best we can. Let’s protect our industry. Let’s protect our image and let’s play football.”

But former Aston Villa captain Agbonlahor believes Mourinho may regret stirring the pot, tipping the unfancied Fulham to upset the applecart and pull off one of this season’s most surprising results.

“If I’m those Fulham players, or Scott Parker, there’s no better way to get up for this game. And I fancy them to upset Spurs tonight and get a result,” Agbonlahor said.

“And if I was in this position now, as a Fulham player, I’d be fuming. The manager is probably getting you into meetings saying; ‘We’re going to beat these tonight’, because of Jose Mourinho’s words.

“It’s going to lift you up for a game. As a player, you’re going to be thinking; ‘Let’s go and beat these and see what Mourinho has to say afterwards’.

“That would spur me on.”

A much-improved and suddenly well-drilled Fulham are unbeaten in their last four Premier League matches and took four points off Leicester City and Liverpool recently.