Fulham boss Roy Hodgson was ruing his side's luckless performance after going down 2-0 to Tottenham at White Hart Lane.

The Cottagers missed a great chance to close the gap on eighth-placed Birmingham and Hodgson said it was a fair showing by his team who did not get the result required.

"We dealt with Tottenham's play reasonably well," he told Sky Sports 2. "They're a very talented team.

"We were a bit unlucky with the second goal (to David Bentley), it took a cruel deflection.

"And I thought in the second half we certainly definitely evened things out, but to be fair their back four did well, ours did well too.

"But with their second goal it meant they could relax a bit more.

"I'm disappointed for the lads."