Hodgson insists Fulham strikers will begin to produce goals

Fulham boss Roy Hodgson believes his strikers will being to produce some much-needed goals.

The Cottagers have been starved of forward action, netting just four times in six Premier League matches, but Hodgson insists that Bobby Zamora and Andy Johnson will begin to make the most of their chances.

“It is a problem in the sense that to win games you have to score goals and, against Arsenal, once again we created the chances but didn’t score them,” he said.

“It’s not something that bothers me in the longer term because I know if we continue to play as we are playing, with the chances we are creating, we will score the goals.

“Maybe on another occasion two or even three of those very good chances we created would have been scored and therefore you’d be saying: ’you scored as many goals in one game as you’ve scored all season.’

“I’m really rather happy with the way Zamora and Johnson are playing together. If they can continue the next 30-odd games then they’ll create a lot of problems for other defences, perhaps defences a little bit weaker than the Arsenal’s.”