{"id":397128,"date":"2026-01-09T11:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T11:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/397128\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T11:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T11:37:08","slug":"fulham-2-1-chelsea-player-ratings-liam-delap-passes-the-audition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/397128\/","title":{"rendered":"Fulham 2-1 Chelsea, Player Ratings: Liam Delap passes the audition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With new head coach Liam Rosenior in attendance, this game was a literal audition for many, and we certainly showcased some of our familiar habits, both good and bad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Delap of course already worked with Rosenior, a couple years ago when they were both at Hull City, so he\u2019s not a complete unknown for the new man in charge, but he certainly made a strong case for getting more minutes going forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That\u2019s back-to-back good games for Delap, who\u2019s struggled to adjust, settle, and perform at the club since arriving in the summer. Injuries haven\u2019t helped, but he looks fully fit and fully motivated. And now he\u2019s off the mark in the Premier League for us, too!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It wasn\u2019t Bob\u2019s best game; it wasn\u2019t his worst.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">And that easily made him one of our best performing players on a disappointing night.<\/p>\n<p>3. REECE JAMES (6.0, sub)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Same goes for Reecey, who came off the bench in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>vs. FULHAM (PL, A, L 1-2)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">EXCEPTIONAL (8.5-9.5): \u2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">GOOD (6.5-7.4): Delap (6.7)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">AVERAGE (5.5-6.4): S\u00e1nchez (6.2), James (6.0, sub), Hato (5.9, sub), Santos (5.8), Caicedo (5.7), Gusto (5.7), Enzo (5.5)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">SUBPAR (4.5-5.4): Palmer (5.2), Chalobah (5.1), Acheampong (5.1, sub), Tosin (4.9), Neto (4.7)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">BAD (3.5-4.4): Jo\u00e3o Pedro (4.4, sub)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">TERRIBLE (2.5-3.4): Cucurella (2.5)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With new head coach Liam Rosenior in attendance, this game was a literal audition for many, and we&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[60667,403,99],"class_list":["post-397128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-chelsea-fc-premier-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}