Dickson Etuhu is happy to be back in the first team at Fulham.

Etuhu is now looking to establish himself as part of a Fulham side which is approaching a pivotal point in the season, with QPR and Wolves up next following the visit of Tony Pulis' side at the weekend.

"I can build from that [game against City]," Etuhu told fulhamfc.com. "Obviously in this week's training I've got to try and push on and get my fitness up but I'm looking forward to the game at home against Stoke. That's probably the more important one for us and hopefully we can get the three points.

"It's always tough when you play Stoke but we believe we can win at home. We're looking to obviously go and win our home games and I'm sure that if we play the way we can we'll do that."