Slavisa Jokanovic is likely to ring the changes for Fulham's Carabao Cup tie with Wycombe Wanderers and he could hand debuts to some of the Whites' academy players.
This time last year, Ryan Sessegnon, Tayo Edun, Dennis Adeniran and Lucas De La Torre made their first senior appearances for the club in a 3-2 win over Leyton Orient.
Of the quartet, only Sessegnon has broken into the first team on a regular basis and, despite being linked with moves to Premier League clubs, agreed a new deal at Craven Cottage this summer.
And the likelihood is that Adeniran, who scored twice against Orient, Edun and De La Torre will be given a chance, once again to impress.
Jerome Opoku, Matt O'Riley and Steven Sessegnon were all given minutes by Slavisa Jokanovic over the course of pre-season and the trio could be involved at Adams Park.
And they would their names to the board at Motspur Park of players to have come through the academy and make a first team appearance for Fulham.
Adeniran is highly rated by the Whites with academy chief Huw Jennings telling GetWestLondon in September last year in a wide-ranging two part interview that he wasn't too far behind Ryan Sessegnon.
He said: “He's not too far behind Ryan. For Dennis, his pathway has probably been a bit tougher.
“He started life as a striker with us and didn't join the academy until he was 12, 13 which is later as Ryan was in at nine.
“So, it's been a harder pathway for Dennis but he's started to establish himself as a midfield player and he had a tough time against Middlesbrough for parts of the game but he got through it and managed himself pretty well and that was encouraging because emotional control is something Dennis needs to be working on and I was very pleased and encouraged by that.
“I have sort of forgiven him for getting booked for the celebration against Orient but he knows there's a pending fine if he lets himself down.
“With someone like Dennis, you see him grow in his belief. His self-belief has started to come on in the last 12 months.”
It will also give Fulham a glimpse of some of the players they could come across in the Checkatrade Trophy, which they are entering this year.
Jennings explained: “I don't think there's any one formula. I think it's a variety of formulas. You have to meet the need of the players.
“For some it's good for them to go out on loan, for some it's not. We'd have competed in the EFL Trophy had there been a place for us.
“We recognise the value of that. I reckon beating Middlesbrough was better than being in the EFL Trophy but there you go.
“I think we had discussions with the FA when they did their review about collaborations with lower league clubs and it's not everybody's favoured view because the 92 club mentality is understandably a unique feature of the game in this country.
“My job is to support young players and sometimes you get frustrated when you see players in their mid to late 30s continuing to get short term contracts at clubs because the manager is desperate to not get beaten on a Saturday and that's a short-term view.
“We're only going to get better in this country if we understand the value of promoting youth.
"It's all very well to have great big new shiny buildings around the country. They look fantastic and it's important to have high quality facilities developing them here.
"It's about the people and I feel very privileged with a great group of staff here.”
You can read Jennings' thoughts on youth development by visiting this page and his thoughts on Fulham's academy graduates at the time of writing by visiting here.
