Solanke: “We need to find consistency”

Dominic Solanke is striving for consistency as we prepare for the final two months of a busy season.

The striker cut a frustrated figure after our 2-0 loss to Fulham in the Premier League at Craven Cottage on Sunday. Dominic went close on three occasions before Rodrigo Muniz opened the scoring for the home side on 77 minutes. Ryan Sessegnon secured the points two minutes from time.

Dominic has now joined Thomas Tuchel’s first England squad for World Cup qualifiers against Albania (Friday, 7.45pm UK) and Latvia (Monday, 7.45pm UK).

A derby clash against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge is next for us on Thursday 3 April (8pm UK), the first of our final nine Premier League fixtures, with the two legs of our UEFA Europa League quarter-final against Eintracht Frankfurt on 10 (home, 8pm UK) and 17 April (away, 8pm UK).

Talking to us at Craven Cottage, Dominic said: “It’s a difficult one to take, we came here from the game in the week against AZ and wanted to try and build on that, build momentum, go on a bit of a streak, but we didn’t manage to do that.

“We pride ourselves on being a fit team that can run for the full 90 minutes, a lot of the time that works in our favour at the end of the games, but they scored first quite late in the game and that killed our momentum. We don't want to be that team that’s great one day and then bad another day. We want to win every game, so we need to find that consistency.”