Late lapse may prove costly as Madlung spoils Fulham’s night

FULHAM, the conquerors of Juventus in the previous round, gave themselves a healthy chance of adding Bundesliga champions Wolfsburg to their list of victims as their season clocked up game number 52.

Damien Duff’s well-taken goal after Bobby Zamora had opened the scoring looked like being enough to give Roy Hodgson’s a strong lead but a late Wolfsburg reply put the tie back in the balance.

Fulham boss Roy Hodgson claimed his side made Wolfsburg looked “reasonably ordinary”.