Source: SKY_Sports
Hodgson hopes to learn lessons
Roy Hodgson hopes Fulham's 3-0 defeat at Manchester United will not do any lasting damage to his team's season. Fulham were comprehensively beaten at Old Trafford and have yet to win away from home this term, scoring just three goals in 13 matches on the road.Hodgson had no complaints with the final result and acknowledged the Cottagers faced an uphill task from the moment Paul Scholes volleyed the Premier League leaders ahead after 12 minutes."I think we were a bit unlucky in the sense that the early goal from Scholes was a wonder volley from a corner kick and it's hard to come back from a blow like that," Hodgson told Sky Sports."I've got to say throughout the game that United played superbly and their passing and movement was very good."I wasn't that happy with our first-half performance, we maybe sat off too much, but we did better in the second half, much better."But, basically, when you come in two goals down against a team of this quality you know your chances of getting back into it are very, very minimal, so in the end I think this is one where we just have to accept defeat graciously, congratulate the better team on three points and make certain it doesn't do any lasting damage."Writing on the wallUnited have now gone 14 Premier League games without conceding a goal, but Hodgson was not concerned about the prospects of his team ending that sequence.The Fulham boss added: "To be honest, I've no particular interest in being a record breaker, but I'd have liked us to get a goal in the game to improve our goal difference."Having said that this was a game where the writing was on the wall from Scholes' excellent volley and then a somewhat unfortunate second goal that we conceded. I'd have preferred it if the goals had come from their flowing movement and not in the way they came."We lost to a better team, but we stuck at it."We have to accept we've got some big games ahead of us and hope we'll be able to learn lessons from today and play better in the games ahead."