Fulham face an FA Cup replay after their 2-2 draw with Bristol Rovers.

Fulham twice had to come from behind after Danny Coles' deflected shot in only the third minute and Craig Hinton's powerful header on 65 minutes put Rovers in front.

David Healy equalised before half-time but there were only 16 minutes left when Danny Murphy struck a spectacular equaliser.

Yet new Fulham boss Roy Hodgson preferred to draw positives from only his second game in charge since replacing sacked Lawrie Sanchez.

The former Inter Milan, Blackburn and Finland boss said: "Sometimes you have to look a little bit beyond results and see exactly what happened.

"All I've said to the players is that they have no reason to feel ashamed of that performance in any way.

"They have done well to come back twice from being a goal behind - especially after the cold shower of being one down after only two minutes.

"I know some people will look at the result and say Fulham have been held to a draw by a League One team but what I saw was players showing a strong attitude and commitment, a desire to try to play their way back.

"A foundation, to some extent, was laid that I can work on. Nobody is under any illusions about an awful lot of work to be done and it is not going to be put right day-to-day. It will take a period of time.

"We've got a while now to work on the players and put right what we see as the wrongs. One obvious one is that the two games in which I've been here we have conceded four goals from set-plays.

"Today we couldn't clear a throw-in that bounced around the area and a straightforward free-kick in the air. We are not a big team but we've got to do something about that.

"But I never saw a scenario where we would lose the game and the way we played for 20 minutes before the first equaliser I thought we would continue and come out winners in the second half.

"Obviously the players are lacking confidence and have been taking a lot of stick for their performances but they kept trying to do the right things and that's important.

"The chairman has said he's not averse to us bringing in a few new faces in the transfer window but we are still fitting profiles to faces and I'm aware you can take too much of a risk on some players if you are not careful."