Fulham cruised into a third-round qualifying tie with an emphatic 4-0 home win on the night, making a 7-1 aggregate victory over Crusaders from Northern Ireland. Andrew Johnson effectively settled the tie when he opened the scoring after 19 minutes and whilst there was no further scoring up to half-time Fulham always looked in control.
This dominance by the Cottagers produced three more goals after the break from Damien Duff followed by two strikes in four minutes around the hour mark with Bobby Zamora and Steve Sidwell both finding the back of the net.
Recent signing John Arne Riise made his home debut for Fulham setting up Johnson for the first of the night.
Martin Jol's team will now face a third-round qualifying tie against either Domzale or RNK Split.
Referee: Marios Stamatis (Cyp)
Venue: Craven Cottage
Attendance: 15,676
Fulham scorers: Johnson 19, Duff 56, Zamora 66, Sidwell 70 Crusaders scorers:
FULHAM 01 Schwarzer 05 Hangeland 07 JA Riise 14 Senderos 18 Hughes 28 Briggs 04 Sidwell 13 Murphy 16 Duff 08 Johnson 25 Zamora
Substitutes 38 Etheridge, 02 Kelly, 06 Baird, 17 BH Riise, 20 Etuhu, 21 Frei, 42 Trotter
CRUSADERS 01 O'Neill 02 McKeown 03 McBride 04 Leeman 05 Magowan 07 McCann 11 Gargan 14 Dallas 16 Watson 09 Adamson 18 Owens
Substitutes 19 Murphy, 20 Gibson, 22 Roy, 21 Faulkner, 10 Rainey, 15 McMaster, 17 Halliday
