Crystal Palace boss Sam Allardyce says David Moyes can keep Sunderland up.

Allardyce left the Black Cats last summer for the England job.

"It was never going to be easy (for Sunderland to survive again). I hadn't signed a player when I had left and that was far too long. And it wasn't because I was going to England. It was because we couldn't find the right player for the right money we had.

"So I hadn't strengthened the squad by the time David took over and he didn't have a lot of time to do that. He did in the end and all those players have to bed in so late. That is a disruption.

"(But) if you have got Jermain Defoe, you have always got a chance, as it was with me last year."