Crystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson was happy with victory over Sheffield United as their Premier League status was confirmed for another season.

Hodgson said he felt Palace were never "really in danger of relegation", but explained that the Premier League by its own nature exerts pressure on teams regardless of their safety.

He told Palace TV: "The strange thing about the Premier League is you put pressure on yourself all the time and we are going to put pressure on ourselves to win those [final four] games or play well in them. So I don't anticipate much of a relief of pressure or stress – that's always going to be there.

"Will I be able to tweak the team in the sense of giving one or two players a rest and giving other players a game? I think I can be able to do that, which could be very, very useful going forward. But that's basically what it will be, it won't be a question of wholesale changes all the time or giving people a game for the sake of it.

"It will be constantly trying to put a very competitive team on the field so we can reproduce what we did today and I would say go even further: reproduce what we did for long periods against Man City, who are frankly in a different league to ourselves. The top three or four teams in this country, they are in a different league."