Crystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson says there's no reason to adjust their season targets.

Hodgson insists staying up remains their goal.

Ahead of facing Burnley on Satruday, he said: “In this league, basically, all the time you're ahead of the curve, i.e. you've got more points than games played, you're doing okay.

“38 points now will keep us in the league and I'm certain that's what many teams other than ourselves are also thinking, unless of course it's teams that have really got the one ambition which is to be in the European leagues, in which case you need more than that.

“So all the time after a start and you look at the table and you're at least ahead of that one point a game curve, it's not too bad. We were doing extremely well with 12 points from eight games but then we had to go to Newcastle and play Tottenham, so it's knocked us back down again.

“You don't have to be a real football expert to realise that that's what's going to happen unfortunately. Unless you think you've got really the team that can match those teams, then you have to be in their group, which we are."