Crystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson is delighted with the way the players and club have responded to his return.

Hodgson has comfortably guided Palace away from the dropzone since his succeeding Patrick Vieira and has helped Ebe Eze to a first England call.

He said, "I will look back on this time working here with this group of players with a lot of satisfaction in the end, and what it has done is it has given us a lot of good moments in games when we have played well and got reward for playing well.

“That's the thing you are always concerned about as a coach. Can you get the team playing well and doing the right things, defending as you want to defend and attacking as you want the team to attack, but then to get any rewards from it you have to win.

“The good attacking movement has to finish with a goal, not a shot which hits the crossbar or is saved by the goalkeeper or goes behind, because they get forgotten. The move will only be discussed or analysed or dissected by the pundits at the end of he game if the ball has gone in the back of the net.

“They don't do too much dissection in those little snippets we get after the game where he pundits are showing us what a team has done and how it has worked… if it's not a goal at the end of it we don't see it.

“That's the one thing, of course, you are concerned about, that you might be happy with what you see and think: 'Well, we actually attacked well today or defended well today'. But if you let a lot of goals in or don't score them, unfortunately you are always starting from square one. Only you might be able to get some satisfaction from it."