Fulham 0 Spurs 0 (From Haringey Independent)

Fulham 0 Spurs 0

7:13pm Saturday 6th March 2010 in

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SPURS must wait to see if they will be going to Wembley this season after a goalless stalemate at Craven Cottage this afternoon.

This was a fast and frantic FA Cup quarter-final, but short on quality in the final third.

Neither side really did enough to have deserved the win and now they must do battle all over again in a replay at White Hart Lane.

However, Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp will perhaps be the more satisfied, as Fulham have a fine record on home soil and this tie was never going to be a pushover for the Lilywhites.

It was a tight opening 45 minutes, with nothing between the two sides and with little goalmouth action.

The first shot on target did not come until the 19th minute, Fulham's Bobby Zamora forcing Heurelho Gomes to save low at his near post.

Tottenham's first effort came from Niko Kranjcar, but home keeper Mark Schwarzer did not have too many problems palming out his shot.

Peter Crouch then forced Schwarzer to push away a header, while from the corner a Sebastien Bassong looping header finished harmlessly on the roof of the net.

Though the first half was a lively and competitive affair, there was no sight of a goal and neither keeper was really tested.

It was certainly not the classic the neutral sitting at home watching on TV had hoped for.

Fulham started the second half much better and Gomes had to be on his toes to push out a Zoltan Gera header within a minute of the restart.

A Dickson Etuhu header then went straight at the Spurs keeper, as the Cottagers kept up the pressure.

But Spurs also looked a lot sharper after the interval and forced a number of corners, before Michael Dawson, up for one of them, screwed a volley just wide.

At the other end, Damien Duff was just wide, the game at last starting to liven up.

Both sides were now really going for it, the pace getting even quicker, with both sets of fans sensing a goal was not too far away.

It was end to end stuff, but the game, on so many occasions, lacked the decisive ball in the final third and neither outfit could break the deadlock in the closing stages.

Vedran Corluka almost sliced the ball into his own net with a minute to go, but the ball flashed wide much to the relief of his team-mates.