Crystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson focused on his players 'in his post-match press conference following 's impressive comeback against West Ham United.

The Palace manager was first asked about VAR, which had a hand to play in Palace's second goal of their 2-1 win.

However, he was keen to turn his attention away from English football's hottest topic and instead discuss his side's convincing display.

"It works when it works in your favour of course," the Palace boss said. "My major disappointment is going to be that that's what you [the journalists at the press conference] are going to write about. I'd have preferred it if you write about the quality of our performance, that would give me more encouragement.

"VAR is what it is. I can quite understand the manager who's 'suffered' the decision as it were because it was unbelievably close, that's pretty obvious. That was pretty obvious I think when it took so long for the screen to show everybody the linesman at the game was right or wrong.

"And on this occasion, I'd say we came out on the right side of it. But I thought our performance over the 90 minutes meant that we don't need to apologise to anyone for the fact that we won here today. I thought we were good value for it."

He added: "It's a victory I think the players not only deserve but they certainly worked unbelievably hard for it and got it against a good West Ham team. We didn't win because West Ham were bad. We were lucky enough to get the decisions we got but good enough to give the quality of performance we gave."