"Overall, Palace played well and we didn't and we were very poor, so what we want is a reaction from the players.

"We're eighth in the Premier League at the moment, with four games to go and we're just about to go into May.

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"We've also being competing in Europe so have probably played 12 or 13 games more than any of the teams who weren't in Europe.

"Liverpool have also played a lot of games but, to be fair to them, they've got used to it over many years.

"From our point of view, we're in there, we're still in with a shout with four games to go and we'll try to make Europe and it would be a great achievement to make it four years in a row.

"I don't think my teams over the years have done that, so I don't like it, I didn't like it at the time and certainly didn't like it after the event either.