{"id":15256,"date":"2017-10-27T12:59:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T11:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=15256"},"modified":"2017-10-27T12:59:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T11:59:59","slug":"roy-hodgson-looking-to-build-on-chelsea-and-newcastle-performances-against-west-ham-in-bottom-of-the-table-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/roy-hodgson-looking-to-build-on-chelsea-and-newcastle-performances-against-west-ham-in-bottom-of-the-table-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Hodgson looking to build on Chelsea and Newcastle performances against West Ham in bottom of the table clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Roy Hodgson was keen to downplay the notion that this weekend\u2019s clash against West Ham in particular is a \u2018must win\u2019 game for Crystal Palace, who sit bottom of the Premier League with just three points. <\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At Thursday\u2019s press conference, he said: \u201cI don\u2019t believe in \u2018must win\u2019 matches because I don&#8217;t know how you get a team to win the must win game. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The only way to win a must win game is if you are good enough and if you&#8217;re better than the opposition.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udcaa Roy is expecting a first class work rate from the boys on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the press conference on <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TTogt6KZzQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/TTogt6KZzQ<\/a> now! \ud83c\udfa5 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CRYWHU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CRYWHU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eXKlwn2qVD\">pic.twitter.com\/eXKlwn2qVD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Crystal Palace F.C. (@CPFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CPFC\/status\/923577335093366784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He added: \u201cfor me every game is a must win game and if we climb out of the relegation zone I will still tell the players it\u2019s a must win to get higher up the table.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Crystal Palace manager was wary of overstating the confidence gained from the performances against Chelsea and Newcastle in recent weeks. He insisted:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cthis league is sufficiently tough and sufficiently equal that even if you are at the top and playing the team at the bottom, if you say &#8216;I am confident we will win\u2019\u2026 that\u2019s a bold statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Confidence is the wrong word; satisfaction with the way the players are trying to do what we are asking them to do. Confidence that we won&#8217;t let the fans down in any other way than the result. Out work rate will be first class.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When asked whether team morale took a hit after the midweek defeat to Bristol City in the Carabao Cup, Hodgson was adamant that the first team remain in high spirits:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u201cIt [morale] would have [taken a hit] if we\u2019d played worse. That sounds strange when you&#8217;ve been heavily beaten but it was five shots at goal. It wasn\u2019t a question of us being penned in our own half and for long periods of the game we played some reasonable football.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hodgson, born in the Croydon area, expressed sympathy with the fans who voiced their dissatisfaction on Tuesday night: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cFans at the game show their displeasure at coming all that way and seeing their team beaten and I can fully understand that, and I think they are more than entitled to do that. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;We know how important they are to us in particular because they are very much a 12th man when we play at Selhurst and they give us fantastic support away from home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve got to give them something to cheer about, either in terms of performances or results. Ideally both.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Saturday\u2019s game sees Palace face West Ham United, whose manager Slaven Bili\u0107 has come under a lot of pressure after West Ham\u2019s continued run of bad form. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is understood that the Hammers\u2019 boss has two games to save his job but Hodgson disapproves of this approach: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI think that managers are either good enough to be running their teams or they are not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;The slings and arrows of fortune which will see you either win the game or lose it, if it&#8217;s as simple as that &#8211; that one&#8217;s competence as a coach is going to be simply decided on the fact that you were totally outplayed but you got an unbelievably lucky win &#8211; ok you stay. Or you played brilliantly you should have easily won the game, you&#8217;re done a fantastic job but unluckily have lost it in the last minute you&#8217;ve got to go. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t understand that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chung-yong Lee became the latest addition to the casualty list at Selhurst after he \u201cgot a nasty kick\u201d in midweek against Bristol City, but Hodgson is hopeful that midfielder James McArthur will recover from a knock picked up against Newcastle in time for the West Ham game. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Christian Benteke remains out alongside Connor Wickham but the Belgian striker is \u201con track\u201d with his recovery from a knee injury sustained against Manchester City in late September.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words: Reuben Pinder | Subbing: Oliver Browning<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Hodgson was keen to downplay the notion that this weekend\u2019s clash against West Ham in particular is a \u2018must win\u2019 game for Crystal Palace, who sit bottom of the Premier League with just three&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":15257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,116],"tags":[813,1287,1639,2470,2979,3769,4449,4979,5818,6864,7059],"class_list":["post-15256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-bilic","tag-chelsea","tag-crystal-palace","tag-football","tag-hodgson","tag-london","tag-newcastle","tag-premier-league","tag-sport","tag-west-ham","tag-zaha"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}