The visitors are a team transformed under Harry Redknapp, with five wins and a draw in their last six games.

That hot streak could not be a bigger contrast to the results scraped under previous manager Juande Ramos and his assistant Gus Poyet.

Striker Fraizer Campbell has declared Spurs now feel almost "invincible" once Redknapp sends them out of the dressing room but Hodgson was confident his players would be equal to the task.

He said: "It is an eye-catching thing to say but also a positive one. In football there is no doubt that if you are in the right mental flow you do feel you are invincible and whatever you attempt will be successful.

"They have got to be feeling confident with the results they have had against quality opposition. And now they are coming to Fulham, who I'm sure they don't have quite the same respect as the Liverpools and the Arsenals of this world.

"I can only hope there is some complacency but I have also got to be concerned that this feeling of invincibility could produce another top-quality performance.

"It is up to our boys to show they can handle it and I don't have any fears that the Fulham team will be going on to the field with an inferiority complex."

Hodgson was also sympathetic towards the sacked Ramos, who had led Spurs to glory in the Carling Cup final last season.

He said: "Everyone has been heaping superlatives on to Harry's head for the job he has done and quite rightly so.

"I congratulate him as well but I feel a bit sorry, I must say, for the previous coach because the players are still the same.

"Harry hasn't brought in any new players and I always think as a manager that the players should be taking some sort of responsibility.

"I'm pretty sure that Ramos and Poyet must be seeing those players playing like they are now and asking why they weren't doing that a few weeks ago.

"I saw them in the 1-1 draw at Chelsea and they looked like a good team then. No matter who the manager is you would be hoping they would perform to the height of their ability."

Sunday's 2-1 victory at home to Newcastle lifted Fulham out of the relegation zone and all the way to 10th but Hodgson admitted his team was still a work in progress.

He said: "We are on the right track although there is a lot of work still to be done. The work-rate and desire is there but we can improve on four victories, although by January last season we had only won twice."