Fulham boss Marco Silva knows the fans are desperate for a derby win against Chelsea.
Fulham will host their West London neighbours on Monday night.
Silva said, You recognise how important it is when you feel the fans. It's probably the closest club from our football club, and that makes the derby slightly different, but we have some others in London as well.
You feel that the game is important for our fans. We want to be competitive, want to fight for the three points. We are playing at home and we want to make their life really difficult.
Last season I had that feeling, how it's important for our fans, for sure. We gave them a very good week last January when we played against them at the Cottage.
After the match, we felt how they were proud of ourselves. This [game] is really special for them.
We want to get a good result, we want to make them proud again, and what we can promise is that we are going to give our maximum again for the shirt and to make them proud again.
It's a big thing for us that we are going to play at home, in our environment. We love everything about Craven Cottage matches and, for us, it will be a very good feeling again."
He added, Of course, we respect them, it's no different than the respect we had for Palace last week, with Luton the week before, with Norwich, or the next one against Sheffield United.
We cannot hide that it's a derby, and always a special one. For our fans it's a really special derby.
What we want really, and what we can promise them, is just that we are going to give our maximum really for the shirt and to make them proud."