{"id":819722,"date":"2025-01-14T08:11:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T14:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/it-was-important-fulham-head-coach-explains-basseys-exclusion-from-fa-cup-win-over-watford\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T08:11:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T14:11:53","slug":"it-was-important-fulham-head-coach-explains-basseys-exclusion-from-fa-cup-win-over-watford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/it-was-important-fulham-head-coach-explains-basseys-exclusion-from-fa-cup-win-over-watford\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt was important\u201d \u2013 Fulham head coach explains Bassey\u2019s exclusion from FA Cup win over Watford"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fulham head coach, Marco Silva, has revealed why he opted not to field Super Eagles defender, Calvin Bassey, in his side\u2019s 4-1 win over Watford in the FA Cup, Soccernet.ng<\/a> reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 25-year-old has played all but one of Fulham\u2019s 20 English Premier League games this season. He missed his side\u2019s 2-2 draw against Liverpool due to an accumulation of yellow cards.<\/p>\n

Bassey\u2019s Nigerian counterpart, Alex Iwobi, has played every game for the Cottagers this season, and Marco Silva emphasized the need for both Nigerians to rest.<\/p>\n

While Bassey didn\u2019t feature in Fulham\u2019s win over Watford, Iwobi was withdrawn shortly after the hour mark, and the Portuguese gaffer explained why.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt was important to rest Robinson. Bassey and Iwobi have been playing a lot of minutes too. He has to rest his body, and mind, but he is ready for tomorrow,\u201d the former Watford manager said in quotes revealed by Jack Kelly<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Calvin Bassey and Alex Iwobi of Fulham celebrate at full time
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Despite news surrounding Fulham\u2019s need to reinforce their attack for the second half of the Premier League season, Marco Silva revealed his side will most likely not be involved in the transfer market this month.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s going to be really quiet for us, it\u2019s going to be really difficult. That is normal in January. For us to improve the squad we have to spend money but we have confidence in our players. If we can add quality, we are going to do it,\u201d the 47-year-old concluded.
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Fulham travel to the London Stadium tomorrow to take on West Ham United, who recently fired Julen Lopetuigi to appoint Chelsea\u2019s ex-coach, Graham Potter.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n\t\t\t\tAdefolahan is a multilingual journalist and writer at Soccernet Nigeria.<\/p>\n

With a track record of involvement in College sports, Adefolahan is focused on crafting engaging football content and utilising his language skills and extensive sports knowledge to enhance content accessibility for a global audience.<\/p>\n

He has interviewed Nigerian stars like Finidi George, Junior Lokosa, and Abraham Onahi Ogbu.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Soccer Fulham head coach, Marco Silva, has revealed why he opted not to field Super Eagles defender, Calvin Bassey, in his side\u2019s 4-1 win over Watford in the FA Cup, Soccernet.ng reports. The 25-year-old has played all but one of Fulham\u2019s 20 English Premier League games this season. He missed his side\u2019s 2-2 draw against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":819723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36971,157,2005],"tags":[44104,6300],"class_list":{"0":"post-819722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-it","8":"category-important","9":"category-soccer","10":"tag-it","11":"tag-important"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}