Roy backs Cottagers strikers
05 Apr 2008 - 08:13:54
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- Roy backs Cottagers strikers
Fulham manager Roy Hodgson has backed his strikers to fire the struggling club to Premier League safety.
The goal-shy Cottagers are six points adrift of safety in 19th place in the table after winning just two of their 14 games since Hodgson took the helm in late December.
Clint Dempsey remains their top-scorer with a paltry return of six strikes, but ahead of Saturday's must-win visit of Sunderland, Hodgson has backed his forwards to rediscover their goal touch.
Hodgson has a full complement of forwards to select from with fit-again Brian McBride and David Healy joining the likes of Eddie Johnson, Diomansy Kamara and the veteran Jari Litmanen.
"We haven't chopped and changed too much but we've got quite a lot of strikers at the club," he said.
"They all want to play and they're all committed to the task so it's fairly obvious that when we are not scoring enough goals they will get chances.
"I think creating goal scoring opportunities is an area that has improved over the last few weeks and I hope that improvement will continue and give us further momentum.
"I'm quite confident that the strikers we have at the club at the moment can help us in that respect.
"Certainly on the training field I see their enthusiasm, energy and motivation. I do know that they're all good enough players to score goals given the chance."