Crystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson urged fans not to panic after their thrashing at Manchester City.

Palace lost 5-0 to continue their dismal losing start to the season.

Hodgson said, "It's ridiculous to sit here and talk about positives when you've been beaten five goals to nil. Admittedly we're playing against a really top quality team and they certainly, when they get in the lead, are capable of showing the full register - their technical ability and the ability to take goal chances.

"We wanted at least to repeat what we had done in the first half [in the second], where we had matched them or kept them certainly at bay for 44 minutes and on the counter attack we had created some good moments of our own. When that doesn't happen in the second half you've got to be very disappointed.

"We've got to accept that we've been given a headache and now during the course of the week we've got to try to find the aspirins which will ease the headache and keep working on the things that we are trying to work on because unfortunately there's a risk that Man United and Chelsea will also be as capable as Man City have been. They will punish us if we don't get things right."