Fulham captain Danny Murphy is already looking to Saturday's London derby and believes West Ham will be tougher under Gianfranco Zola.He said: "West Ham will be a tougher proposition due to their new manager.
"Obviously when a new manager goes to a club they have an immediate effect. Everyone is trying to impress, everyone is fighting for a position, so their players will all be up for it, but I think they would be anyway. It's a London derby and their fans are very passionate like ours, so they'll want their team to perform."
Murphy wants to put Fulham's disappointing back-to-back Premier League and Carling Cup defeats behind him with a good display against London rivals who will also be looking to play some football.
"I'm expecting a good game. I think any team under Zola will be a good footballing one," he said.
"I don't think for a second he's going to have them launching it from the back! So I think from a spectator's point of view it will be a good game of football.
"I'm sure there'll be chances for both sides because it's between two attacking sides who like to win matches. So, it's a game that everybody is looking forward to, especially us because we had the bad result last weekend and we want to put that right."
