A goal from Croatian striker Ivan Klasnic put Bolton Wanderers on the right path at Craven Cottage but Fulham finally broke their resistance to secure a point thanks to Damien Duff. Despite the disappointment of failing to register an away win, Trotters boss Gary Megson was happy with the performance of his players.

 

The point gained ended a run of defeats. Whilst Bolton did have opportunities, Fulham were the more dominant. However, Megson said “When you're 1-0 up and defending as well as we were, what we needed was to score a second goal and I thought we would have gone on to win with that. But in terms of the honesty of the players, their integrity and their work rate - that was all there and that's something we need to use to kick on.” He was pragmatic on the overall result. "The way the game went, it would be a little bit much to say that we were that much on top that we're disappointed just to get a point."

Bolton became only the third side to deny Fulham all three points at the Cottage this season but Megson still believes that goal-scorer Klasnic can be better. "Ivan would probably be as good a finisher as there is in the Premiership, but there are other things that he needs to add to his game to be a Bolton player," said the Bolton boss, “

he has to link up the play a little bit more for us.”