Fulham boss Roy Hodgson won't blame Jimmy Bullard for his wayward finishing after their defeat to West Ham.

He said: "We can't blame him for that. He has scored goals and produced wonderful crosses that maybe kept us in this league so I will be the last one to criticise him for it.

"He's disappointed because he sees every one of those situations as a great goal-scoring opportunity and I do as well.

"It just goes to show how well we did in the second half to get so many opportunities despite the fact we were playing with 10 men.

"He is good at those and it is a high skill to be able to lift balls over the high walls of today and the quality of goalkeepers and put it in the net. He is the best man we have for that job."