Arbeloa: We've made mistakes but Fulham on right path

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Having gone winless in your first six games and conceded goals at a rate of almost two a game, there are worse ways to recover than a pair of gritty 1-0 victories.

It is still early days in the Alvaro Arbeloa project at Fulham but the optimism that a narrow but entertaining opening-weekend 3-2 defeat to Chelsea had brought from his debut in the dugout had waned with that run, which had left them stranded bottom of the Premier League.

That openness which had initially seemed a welcome tonic from the sometimes pragmatic Marco Silva era had quickly become a problem, with the Cottagers losing 3-2 again - this time to previously winless Crystal Palace - and shipping two late goals to Ipswich earlier this month to lose at Portman Road too.

Something had to change, and after six league games with his players Arbeloa felt he had seen enough to know where that lay.

Source: Sky Sports