Luis Boa Morte came off the bench to keep Fulham’s 100 per cent record intact at Norwich.

Jean Tigana’s men looked set to drop their first points of the season until the former Arsenal man pounced just two minutes from time.

A sweet move from left to right saw Sean Davies and Bjarne Goldbaek exchange passes before the former slid the perfect pass into Boa Morte’s path and he coolly prodded it past Andy Marshall.

After slipping straight into their passing game and making a bright start that saw Louis Saha force the first save

from Andy Marshall, Fulham were soon hassled and harried out of their stride.

Despite the imperious promptings of John Collins and the industry of Goldbaek, the Cottagers were soon forced onto the back foot as Lee Marshall started to emerge as an attacking threat down the right.

Having been switched to counter the threat of Collins, the 21-year-old created his side’s two best chances.

First he wriggled round Rufus Brevett and crossed for Iwan Roberts to flash a volley wide of the far post and then threaded a delightful through ball to Chris Llewellyn only for his effort to skim agonisingly across the face of goal.

Fulham’s frustration boiled over on 25 minutes as Barry Hayles sparked a shoving match between both sets of players that saw the striker and City duo Fernando Derveld and Darel Russell booked.

To their credit, Tigana’s men regained their composure the quickest and a neat move down the left ended with Collins pinging a crisp drive straight into the arms of Marshall.

Whatever Tigana said during the interval seemed to work and just four minutes after the restart Saha latched onto a clever pass from Sean Davies, beat Marshall with a toe-poke but saw the ball bounce off the foot of the post.

But that was the last time Fulham really showed their class until the 88th minute when Boa Morte made the most dramatic of impacts.

Amazingly he could have had a second after Marshall had blocked Saha with his legs but even though he rolled the ball wide of an open goal, it will be of little comfort the Canaries.

Norwich: A. Marshall, Sutch, Derveld, L. Marshall, Fleming, Kenton, Whitley, Russell, Roberts, Giallanza (McVeigh 85), Llewellyn (Forbes 42 (De Waard 85)).
Subs Not Used: Green, McGovern.

Booked: Derveld, Fleming, L. Marshall, Forbes.

Fulham: Taylor, Finnan, Brevett, Melville, Coleman, Clark (Fernandes 75), J. Collins, Hayles (Boa Morte 62), Goldbaek (Lewis 81), Saha, Davis.
Subs Not Used: Hahnemann, Symons.

Booked: Hayles, Davis, Finnan, Coleman.

Goals: Boa Morte 88.