Scott Parker has said he’s pleased with how his side reacted after their weekend defeat at Stoke City, winning 3-2 against Luton Town in the Championship last night.

Fulham rectified the Stoke City defeat at the weekend with their win over Luton Town last night, but the Hatters didn’t make it easy.

Aleksandar Mitrovic gave Paker’s side a 2-0 lead before the hour-mark, but his side were pegged back by defender Dan Potts who headed Luton back in the game minutes after Mitrovic’s second.

But the Championship’s top scorer would score his third of the night and his first hat-trick in English football shortly after, heading home a Joe Bryan free-kick for his 11th Championship goal of the season.

Kazenga LuaLua clawed back a consolation for Luton, but the home side saw out the 3-2 win to go 7th in the table, level on points with Preston in 6th.

Speaking after the game, Parker said:

“Probably our early downfall was that we weren’t clinical enough in the right areas. We got the ball there and we got some big opportunities but going in 1-0 it felt like from where I was watching that we were in full control and that we should’ve gone in a bit more in front.”

Fulham dominated for large parts of the game having 65% off the ball, twenty attempts on goal and registering nearly 200 passes more than their opponents.

“Then second-half 2-0” Parker continued, “Luton haven’t got a lot to lose and they start putting bodies into the box and they commit a lot of men and get a goal back.

“Before this game I said to the team and in my interviews to the press that the most important thing this year will be when we face a little bit of adversity or have a bad result it’s about how we’re going to bounce back and tonight the key thing was the result.”

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The verdict

It was another fine attacking display from Fulham last night but again their defensive woes were revealed.

Graeme Jones’ side scored two easy goals against Parker’s last night, and the latter will have to eradicate that from his side if their to mount a serious promotion push this season.

It’s Fulham’s third win in five though and they look like they’re hungry to break into the top-six, and they can further ascend up the table when they travel to struggling Middlesbrough at the weekend.