Watford boss Roy Hodgson admitted it would be tough to pick up his team after their loss to Brentford.

The Hornets were beaten at the death by the Bees in the Premier League at the weekend.

The result means that any slim hopes of avoiding relegation are likely gone, as the club stares down the barrel of another drop to the Championship.

"I mean that is the hardest time to pick people up… it would have been pretty hard to pick them up from 1-1 because we'd have realised that the chance of those three points had eluded us and we'd only got one," Hodgson said, per Watford Observer.

"But we could have perhaps then taken a little bit more comfort from the fact that we came very close to the three points, now when you don't even have that comfort to use in your attempts to motivate people to continue along the same lines, it's much harder.

"But it's part of the job, I make no complaints about that, I knew when I signed up for it that that would be part of the job but there is certainly no easy answer to your question, or certainly no words that I can use which will change the situation.

"We've got to go out in the next six games and play in the same vein as we did in the second 45 minutes today."