Fernando Amorebieta might have given away a penalty - but his boss was happy with the way the defender got stuck in.

Both he and Moussa Dembele were praised for their physical presence as Fulham struggled to a 2-2 draw with Reading.

Amorebieta's pointless shove in the box on Hal Robson-Kanu gave Royals a way back in after Dembele had put Whites ahead, but Slavisa Jokanovic could also see other sides to the defender's game.

The gaffer said: "It's kind of a characteristic of us our team that Moussa and Fernando were physical at the same level as Reading. In other parts of the pitch we were suffering.

"But without making chances in the second half we showed character, although we are suffering in this competition, and we need to be more sold.

"We started very well at the beginning; we dominated and scored but we weren't very clinical, and then we made many unnecessary mistakes on the way to this point.

"Was it a penalty (for the Reading first goal)? It was a small push and the referee could have gone one way or the other. At the beginning of the game, we dominated and scored we weren't very clinical."

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