Fulham boss Scott Parker needs to have a ‘massive affect’ on their match towards Southampton, regardless of being compelled to remain at house.
Parker will miss the Boxing Day conflict towards the Saints because of the authorities’s coronavirus guidelines.
A member of his family has examined constructive for COVID-19, which suggests he should self-isolate for a sure variety of days.
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Talking forward of the match at Craven Cottage, Parker mentioned: “I’m feeling nicely. Clearly because of the tips I’ve needed to self-isolate myself, so there’s no denying I’m disenchanted.
“The member of the family is ok and is on the mend, however clearly for me now I’m self-isolating and doing issues from the gap of the room actually.
“In fact I’ll do all I can from house. I’ll be in fixed dialogue and I’ll have a foremost feed going into the dugout.
“I’ll have a laptop computer and screens which have quite a lot of completely different angles of how I see the sport.
“Is that going to be nearly as good as being dwell and round it? In fact not, however that’s the predicament that I’m in presently. I’ve received nice coaches and nice employees who will take the reins extra personally there, but in addition I can have a giant affect from the place I’m.”
The Englishman is hoping to return for Fulham’s subsequent match towards Tottenham on Wednesday thirtieth December.
Within the meantime, assistant supervisor Stuart Grey and first crew coach Matt Wells will assist the crew.
When requested if the present scenario is just like the March lockdown, Parker mentioned: “It’s very related. Clearly I feel the lockdown interval gave us some concepts of tips on how to coach from afar, though this time it’s a little bit completely different as a result of we’re in competitors at current.
“Final time we weren’t in competitors, though we have been holding different gamers energetic and attempting to maintain them match for what was the rest of an vital season.
“However that is actual competitors and we have now a Premier League sport on Saturday which clearly I’m not going to have the ability to participate in.”