FULHAM left the Reebok convinced that they could have claimed all three points if they had been prepared to gamble.

Jean Tigana's expensively assembled Londoners were frustrated in their attempt to rack up their fourth successive Premiership win by a Wanderers' side that proved impossible to break down.

The Cottagers' boss, who rarely offers public comment, kept his thoughts to himself. But we know from his assistant and fellow Frenchman, Christian Damiano, that he felt a bolder approach to the game might have reaped a greater reward.

"Perhaps we needed to take more risks," Damiano suggested.

"We arrived with good intention to play and I think we played well.

"We had no big chances to score but we lacked, perhaps, the power up front. But we played well and we were always trying."

Damiano paid compliment to Wanderers, however, when he admitted he was content with a draw.

"We have only one point," he acknowledged, "but I think it is a good point because we played against a Bolton side that was a very good team at the beginning of the season. They play on the counter-attack and they play well.

"It was a different game than last week against Newcastle (a 3-1 win) because that game was more open.

"Bolton pulled back nine players into defence and we needed one fantastic strike or one set-piece to open the game up.

"But Bolton kept their confidence."