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Ivan Cavaleiro (right) has scored in his past two league appearances for Fulham

Fulham closed the gap on the automatic promotion places with a narrow victory at Hull City.

Ivan Cavaleiro, who made his loan switch from Wolves permanent this week, gave the visitors the lead with a fine finish from distance.

The home side nearly grabbed an equaliser in six minutes of time added on, with Jarrod Bowen seeing a shot clawed away from goal by Marek Rodak, before Tom Eaves was denied on the rebound by defender Alfie Mawson.

Victory for Scott Parker's side, coupled with Leeds United's home defeat by Sheffield Wednesday, moved them to within seven points of the second-placed Whites.

Cavaleiro's goal, a superb curled effort from the edge of the area, was the only real moment of quality in a game that was hampered by strong winds.

Parker's delight at bouncing back from defeat by Reading in their previous league game will have been tempered by seeing Championship top scorer Aleksandar Mitrovic taken off on a stretcher with 10 minutes to go.

Hull were not lacking in endeavour but aside from their stoppage-time opportunities struggled to create anything of note.

Fulham host improving Middlesbrough on Friday, while the Tigers travel to Derby County on Saturday.

Hull City manager Grant McCann told BBC Radio Humberside:

"I thought it was a bit of a scrappy game really. They probably started better than us, our tempo was a bit slow, we took too many touches on the ball.

"Second half we were better, we huffed and puffed, we weren't great and a moment of quality has won the game.

"I thought we got what we deserved today. The moment of quality won the game, if it had of been a 0-0 it would have probably been a fair result but look we are no the wrong end of it.

"We pride ourselves on entertaining the paying public, today we didn't give them any reason to cheer."

Fulham manager Scott Parker told BBC Radio London:

"It was a very good goal. Cav's been working on that over the past few weeks in terms of coming inside, I think we've seen a replica of the Huddersfield goal earlier this year and a couple of others he's scored.

"It was worthy of a match winner and there were limited chances for us, but once you get your noses in front it was about digging in and keeping that 1-0.

"A clean sheet today is very pleasing and we move on to the next."