Fulham FC seemed all set for the UEFA Europa League round of 32 until Djiby Fall's last-gasp header for the already eliminated Odense BK also ended the 2010 finalists' campaign.
Teenager Kerim Frei had made one for Clint Dempsey before scoring his first senior goal to put Fulham in seeming total control at the break. But Hans Henrik Andreasen pulled one back for OB midway through the second half and Fall's leveller allowed Wisła Kraków to snatch Group K second place with a 2-1 defeat of FC Twente.
Home goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer was ruled out with a spinal injury hours before kick-off giving Neil Etheridge a club debut in a much-changed lineup that took time to settle. Once they did, Chris Baird forced a diving save from Stefan Wessels while Bernard Mendy made a superb tackle to deny Bobby Zamora.
Now Fulham were rampant and Brede Hangeland rose to meet a corner which Wessels and Bashkim Kadrii combined to stop. With Wisła ahead, Fulham needed a goal themselves and got one on 27 minutes, Frei sprinting down the left and crossing low, Zamora touching back and Dempsey rolling a low shot past Wessels. Four minutes later it was 2-0 as Frei turned in Moussa Dembélé's centre after another flowing move.
Ruud made Etheridge work early in the second half with an angled shot but the goalkeeper was caught out on 64 minutes by a low Andreasen free-kick into the bottom corner. Suddenly OB sensed a chance and there was a real tense feel to Fulham's play as they retreated into their own half.
However, it seemed the 2010 finalists were holding on and might even score themselves when Ruud broke down the right and put in a cross for substitute Fall to head the equaliser, the very last touch of both OB and Fulham's campaign.
