Fulham boss hails duo

Hughes was thrilled with the performance of the duo.

“I thought he [Johnson] was excellent again today even without the goals,” Hughes told Sky Sports.

“In his general play and his performances of late you can see he was getting back to the level he was before his bad injury and he just needs games now.

“Every game he plays now he’ll be stronger and faster and we’ll benefit from him.

“I was really pleased with Damien’s performance today he was really positive, going at his full-back and causing him problems all day long.

“He’ll be encouraged by that as we wanted him to isolate his full-back if he could. He created a lot of opportunities for us today.”

“We played well today I thought it was a very accomplished performance,” added Hughes.

“We scored a great opening goal and created a situation which led to a penalty. At 2-0 we were quite comfortable.

“Even before that I thought we played like a more accomplished side and deserved to win today.

“We haven’t had a penalty for quite some time so I wasn’t quite sure who was going to take it myself so I think it was one of those where Clint grabbed the ball to take it.”