Hodgson Relieved

Fulham trailed 2-1 with just seven minutes of the 2nd Round tie remaining at Craven Cottage but eventually managed to secure a 3-2 victory thanks to goals from Danny Murphy and Jimmy Bullard in the closing stages.

"We were playing a very good team with their tails up and they gave us an awful lot of problems," admitted the Fulham boss.

"Thank goodness we re-found our tempo in the last 20 minutes and got through with two wonderful strikes.

"We were not guilty of complacency. It was just that our game went to pieces with those two goals Leicester scored, but we have come out of it with a couple of positives.

"One is that we were able to find our game again and two is that we learned a lot of lessons without paying the full price."