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Fulham Head Coach Slavisa Jokanovic said he is not the magician David Copperfield and that improvements at Craven Cottage will take some time after losing his first game in charge.
Jokanovic's new side lost to play-off chasing Sheffield Wednesday thanks to a stunning strike from Ross Wallace.
It was Fulham's 10th defeat of the season and leaves them in 19th position in the Championship table, only six points above the relegation zone.
"It's normal I am disappointed with the result," Jokanovic said. "But I cannot be disappointed with the performance. We play 60 minutes of very good football, they score a fantastic goal and with this goal they get the three points.
It's a frustrating situation but I come here for working not to fix problems fast. I am not David Copperfield, it will take time.
"It will take commitment from my staff, my players and all the people who are involved in this project. It is life, you have to work hard and we try and find the right way for us.
"We have 71% possession of the ball but we do not make enough dangerous situations, we have to be a danger for the opposition.
We are a very good team with the ball but we need to improve without the ball.
"We are trying to find this balance between attack and defence. I expect a better balance and for us to be more competitive, that is very important for us."
The decisive goal arrived when Wallace cut in from the right on to his stronger left foot and unleashed a superb strike into the top corner from 30 yards.
Wednesday are seventh two points behind Ipswich, who occupy the final play-off place.
Carlos Carvalhal, the Wednesday manager, said: "I think we deserved the victory. The time we scored the goal was important because we were not playing well and Fulham had more of the ball.
But football is like this and after the goal a lot of things changed in the game. Especially in the second half we had a lot of control of the game.
"We created three or four scoring chances to make another goal. It was not easy because of the way that Fulham play but the reality is that Joe Wildsmith did not have too many saves to make and we could have scored more.
"I joked with Ross that he never scores goals like this earlier in the week.
I said he did it for Celtic 25 years ago but why not for us? Of course, I was joking, it was not 25 years.
I didn't make him score but it was a nice coincidence."
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