{"id":463007,"date":"2026-02-09T03:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/463007\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T03:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:32:08","slug":"familiar-frailties-return-yahoo-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/463007\/","title":{"rendered":"Familiar frailties return &#8211; Yahoo Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the camera panned to Silva moments before the full-time whistle, his face told the story of another sorry afternoon for the home side.<\/p>\n<p>The Fulham manager was in a state of shock as his side &#8211; not for the first time this season &#8211; proved to be masters of their own downfall.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>For much of the afternoon, it seemed as though Everton had no answer for Silva&#8217;s side and the slick transitions they produced as Chukwueze, Smith Rowe and Jimenez came close to adding a second.<\/p>\n<p>But in the end it was a familiar sinking feeling for the club&#8217;s fans as six days on from a gut-wrenching defeat at Old Trafford, they conceded a late winner once more.<\/p>\n<p>For all of the talent that has arrived at Craven Cottage in recent seasons &#8211; namely Smith Rowe, Iwobi, Kevin and, of course, Chukwueze &#8211; it is Fulham&#8217;s weakness in defence that continues to prove costly.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Having gone seven Premier League matches without a clean sheet, with the last coming against West Ham on 27 December, Silva will know exactly where his side need to improve if they are to kick-start their push for European qualification.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770607928_789_.gif\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the camera panned to Silva moments before the full-time whistle, his face told the story of another&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,189175,44357,59304,189176,4550,189174,561,82,8525],"class_list":["post-463007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chukwueze","tag-everton","tag-fulham","tag-iwobi","tag-silva","tag-smith-rowe","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-west-ham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}