Crystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson admits defeat at Brighton was a "very bad day".

Palace were thrashed 4-1 by the Seagulls on the day.

He said: "A very bad result. In the first half we were comprehensively outplayed. They played extremely well.

"I thought in the second half the players did the best they could to stay in the game to give ourselves a chance. It is a derby game, a game that is important to Palace people and when you lose 4-1 it is a bad day.

"It is really decisive when you concede a corner after a minute and the opposing team scores. It does affect you.

"You can always try to analyse a game and find a way of saying 'if only this or that happened' but the bottom line was that Brighton were better than us today, they deserved to win the game. I would say at 3-0 down we kept going despite once again injuries to key players."

On injuries to Marc Guehi and Michael Olise, he added: "Very, very disappointing. With hindsight I know people will say at 3-0 down why bring him on, we brought him on because we had the green light from the medical people that he was able to play the second half. They told us to put him on the bench and not start him. When you have one of your best players on the bench, he is there and everyone thinks if he is ready to play half a game, you want to take advantage of that.

"It would have been tough to say 'stay sitting there'. There's no crystal ball. If someone had said 'if you put him on, he will pull a muscle' then we wouldn't have done so."