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Frank Lampard is asked how he expects mid-table Palace to perform. “A team fighting at the bottom of the table will have their own reasons. A team in Palace’s position will want points to keep going up the table, because they’re professionals, but maybe they can be somehow more relaxed. What I do know is, they’ve a great manager. I worked under Roy. And they’ve got great quality players so it’ll be a hard game on its own merits.”
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Roy Hodgson is asked what target he’s set his players in these final five games. “Get through them, quite frankly. It was never going to be easy, it was a difficult programme for us. We’ve always known three games a week is not something our squad is set up to do, because we have a lot of experienced players and a lot of players who are a little bit older. So it’s going to be an uphill struggle but we’ll do the best we can.” Continue reading...

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