'Make or break for Silva's five-year project'

March has 'season defining' written all over it.

Our next three league games are against teams in the bottom four of the Premier League, starting against 18th-placed West Ham on Wednesday. And sandwiched in the middle of that, we have a home FA Cup tie against Championship opposition.

Southampton stand between us and a third quarter-final under Marco Silva.

Our win over Spurs this weekend was our eighth at Craven Cottage this season – but the game against West Ham is far from a foregone conclusion.

The Hammers have gained more than half their points total away from London Stadium this season and arrive at the Cottage showing signs of fight under Nuno Espirito Santo.

Our only trip this month is to the City Ground, to face a Nottingham Forest side who are without a win in five and have had more managers this season than home wins.

We round off the month at home to Burnley. The fans would love nothing more than getting another win over former manager Scott Parker, and with just one win in 10, anything less than three points is not acceptable.

The Whites already have wins this season against all three of our remaining March league opponents. Doing the double over them all – as we did Spurs – would probably see us rocketed into the top six before an extremely tricky April.

Lose too many and all conversation of European football and cup glory will be firmly on ice until August.

It certainly feels like make or break for Silva's five-year project.

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