Zamora sends Cottagers through

The Coca-Cola Championship side took a second-half lead through Jason Scotland in the fifth-round replay at Craven Cottage but two goals inside three minutes, through Zamora and Clint Dempsey, ensured the Premier League side progressed.

It capped a fine week for Zamora, who had endured a long barren spell before netting against West Brom on Sunday.

Jordi Gomez was causing problems early on for Fulham and he forced Mark Schwarzer into a low save at his near post from a free kick.

Swansea again went close when Gomez drilled another free-kick firmly along the ground with Schwarzer pulling off a fine save with his legs after a slight deflection.

The Swans were then caught out committing too many forward at a corner, with Simon Davies sprinting fully 60 yards out of defence to feed Bobby Zamora, who shot tamely.

Dorus De Vries did well to parry a Erik Nevland volley wide eight minutes before the interval but he appeared beaten when Brede Hangeland's towering header crashed against the woodwork three minutes later.

Just 90 seconds after the restart Swansea ended the stalemate. Scotland was afforded far too much room by Aaron Hughes and John Pantsil, who between them allowed Mark Gower to roll the ball to Scotland 15 yards out and he shot past Schwarzer.

Dickson Etuhu went close with a fizzing volley as the chances stacked up and it was no surprise when Dempsey steered home Davies' corner from the right to level the scores in the 77th minute.

The American nearly made it two after superb work from Zamora put him one on one with De Vries just moments afterwards. The Dutchman made a fine sprawling save but had no chance a minute later when another Davies cross found Zamora and he nodded back across goal to make it 2-1.