Scott Parker believes his side's defeat to Newcastle United was a 'snapshot' of Fulham's season as they failed to mark their exit from the Premier League with a win.
Goals from Joe Willock - his 7th in 7 games - and Fabian Schar secured the points for the Magpies but Parker believes his side improved in the second half but failed to take advantage.
Speaking after the game, the Fulham boss said: "That game was our season in a snapshot.
"Certainly, in the second half I thought we played the game in their half for the majority, but we missed some big chances – (Ivan) Cavaleiro’s chance that goes over is a massive chance.
“Then they enter our box three or four times, we give away a penalty and the game is done.
“I didn’t like us, first half. I thought we lacked intensity, I thought we lacked a stimulus really, the game was flat - I thought both teams were.
“I thought that in the second half we were well improved and we did very well, we just didn’t manage to be on the right side of things.”
Fulham did indeed improve in the second 45 - having 79% of possession, and attempting 19 crosses but failed to punish Newcastle who stepped off the gas having gone one-up through Willock.
Their dominance - and failure to make it pay is perhaps no more shown in the fact that they made 235 accurate passes out of 266 attempted - while Newcastle completed just 76 out 104.
Newcastle keeper Martin Dubravka was not called into action, at the end of the day only one thing mattered - that was the scoreline, and the Magpies' two-nil win sees them finish 12th for the season.
