Fulham vs Luton Predictions

• Luton have lost each of their three games in the Premier League this season
• Both teams scored in 23 of Fulham’s 38 league matches last term
• Andreas Pereira scored four league goals last campaign

Luton make stuttering start to Premier League life

It has been a baptism of fire for Luton in their maiden Premier League campaign and things are unlikely to get any better for the Hatters when they visit Fulham at Craven Cottage on Saturday.

After gaining promotion via the playoffs, Luton had a relatively modest summer transfer window with Ross Barkley and Tim Krul among the club’s most notable acquisitions.

And only three games into the season, Rob Edwards’s side look out of their depth.

They opened with a 4-1 mauling away to Brighton before losing 3-0 to a subpar Chelsea team at Stamford Bridge.

Adjustments being made to Kenilworth Road meant Luton did not play their first Premier League home fixture until just before the international break and that too ended in a 2-1 defeat to West Ham, leaving them pointless after three matches.

Sandwiched between those results was a win in the second round of the EFL Cup but even that was only against Gillingham, who ran them close in a 3-2 defeat.

Fulham able to bounce back from tricky start

It has been a pretty underwhelming start to Premier League life for Luton and they are worth opposing away to Fulham, who achieved a top-half finish last season.

Since then they have lost star man Aleksandar Mitrovic, who moved to Saudi Arabia, and they have not had the best start to the Premier League season themselves.

That said, the Cottagers have not had the easiest of opening fixtures, having faced last season’s top two – Arsenal and Manchester City – on the road in their last two league games.

They managed a 2-2 draw away to Arsenal before they were thrashed 5-1 by Manchester City but in-between those games they also knocked Tottenham out of the EFL Cup.

Pereira can strike for Cottagers

Fulham have four points on the board thanks to that Emirates stalemate and a 1-0 win away to Everton on the opening weekend of the season and it has not been a disastrous start by any means.

They are worth a bet to win this contest and 2-1 looks a decent correct score prediction given Marco Silva’s men have not kept a clean sheet since their season opener.

As far as goalscorers go, Fulham need someone to step up to the plate now that Mitrovic has departed and Andreas Pereira could fit the bill.

Pereira bagged the opener against Arsenal in August and only Mitrovic (15) scored more goals in all competitions than the Brazilian midfielder (five) last term.