Bobby Zamora can shoulder goal-scoring responsibility - Fulham boss Roy Hodgson

Striker 'big enough' to cope with pressure...

By Alan Dawson

EPL: Bobby Zamora - Marc Wilson, Fulham v Portsmouth (Getty Images)

Fulham striker Andrew Johnson may currently be sidelined, but manager Roy Hodgson has every faith in Bobby Zamora in filling the goal-scoring void now that the powerful Englishman has sufficiently recovered from a virus and a broken collarbone.

Currently in tenth-spot in the Premier League, Hodgson is hoping that a goal-scoring run from his strikers will help catapult the Cottagers up the division.

Fulham play relegation-threatened Burnley on Tuesday evening, and Hodgson has tasked Zamora with re-finding the form that saw his name linked with an England call-up earlier in the season.

"There is a lot of responsibility on him, but Bobby is used to responsibility and has taken it on his shoulders ever since he came to the club," Hodgson is quoted by Sport to have said.

"When we were playing well before Christmas, getting through in Europe and doing well in the Premier League, he was in splendid form.

"There will be a lot of weight on his shoulders, but he is big enough to carry it."

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