Final Home Game At The Cottage

Bjorn Helge Riise is hoping for a continuation of the Whites' fine form of late. The Norwegian international played the full 90 minutes in Sunday's win over West Ham United and the midfielder was certainly pleased with the way the side performed.

"It was nice to play 90 minutes and nice to win," Riise told fulhamfc.com. "There were a lot of players today who haven't played a lot recently so to beat West Ham 3-2 is a very positive result. I enjoyed it a lot and hopefully I'll get to play a bit more in the last three games.

"Now it's important to beat Stoke on Wednesday to secure 10^th place, and then to finish the season at the Emirates will be magnificent. I've never been there before, but people tell me it's a great stadium, so I'm looking forward to that, and to play there would be really nice.

"We want to be in that top 10 so that when we look at the table on TV we're there in the top half. And to achieve that after the season we've had, and getting to the Europa League Final, would be a very good season."

Roy Hodgson was clear that he didn't want an 'after the Lord Mayor's Show feeling' to Sunday's game following on from Fulham heroics against Hamburg the previous Thursday - and the players certainly delivered a performance full of enthusiasm and energy.

"We live to play football games so there was never any question of us not being up for it," Riise explained. "For those of us that were on the bench on Thursday it was a chance to prove ourselves that we can play football and that was important for us.

"We don't want to lose games. Especially in the last weeks of the season and especially when we have a Final in 10 days so for us our aim is to get that 10^th place and if we beat Stoke on Wednesday I think we will be close to achieving that."

Don't miss Fulham's final home match of the season on Wednesday night (KO 8pm) when Roy Hodgson's Team take on Stoke City. Get behind the Whites at the Cottage - tickets are now on General Sale.