Hodgson on Palace's 1-0 loss to Arsenal
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00:00 Hello, John.
00:01 At the end there, you pressed them so hard back against him,
00:07 do you feel as though he might have got something towards him?
00:11 Yeah, but we have to give Arsenal credit for their defensive organisation
00:17 and the fact that they defended the crosses very, very well
00:21 and got the blocks in when it was necessary
00:24 and then the goalkeeper was there also to pull out a few saves from the crosses
00:29 and divert the danger.
00:32 But I don't know that I could have asked that much more of the players in that situation.
00:37 In fact, I don't know I could have asked much more of the players throughout the 90 minutes.
00:41 I thought it was a very well organised performance, a very disciplined performance.
00:46 Tactically, we did most of the things we wanted to do
00:50 and on another day we wouldn't have conceded the penalty
00:53 and we would have maybe got an equaliser despite conceding the penalty.
00:58 Do you think that it was revealed that it was a foul?
01:04 Well, what I saw and what I've seen on the video replay is a block.
01:09 The player who wants to get in the area and who we designated to get into that area
01:14 to stop them taking that free kick and play it in there couldn't do so because he was blocked off.
01:18 That's what I saw.
01:20 Obviously, the referee and the VAR didn't so there's no point in talking any more about it.
01:25 OK. Mark?
01:28 Maybe you could have come to the penalty.
01:32 I don't know. I've not seen that on the video.
01:35 I haven't actually seen that one. I've not had a chance to analyse that through video replays.
01:40 From where I'm standing in the dugout, of course, every time a player goes down with some sort of force
01:47 you hope maybe he's had some contact before but I really don't know. I haven't seen it.
01:53 Possibly on the internet. Alex?
01:57 Hi, Roy. You've also won the Jedrack Cup here in Nairu, Arhemada and only eight subs on the bench.
02:03 Do you feel like you need to bring a few more tacklers maybe to help you out?
02:08 I think when you look at Arsenal today and you saw that when they needed some help
02:13 playing with ten men and obviously having some sort of pressure to deal with
02:18 it's quite interesting to see the number of players they bring on, the quality of the players they bring on.
02:25 At the moment we aren't in that situation. To be fair, we're waiting on Alisso, we're waiting on Franco,
02:31 we're waiting on Will Hughes and Mateta has gone down with a sore knee just a day ago.
02:39 So had those four been around and available then I might have been saying, 'No, we've got plenty.'
02:46 But at the moment we don't have those so it does limit us in those attacking spheres
02:52 and that's why we have to turn to Arhemada who's hardly played a game in the first team
02:57 and Jeswe Xhaki whose last game was in the first division with Charlton.
03:02 Okay, any other questions? Matt, you can use the mic. Thank you.
03:07 Hi, Roy. What's the reason that Shonvali Mateta wasn't on the bench today?
03:13 Who?
03:14 Shonvali Mateta.
03:16 Injured? He's got a sore... He came in after a training session the following day,
03:23 he told me he had a sore knee so he couldn't take part, so he can't take part.
03:27 Thank you.
03:29 Any others? No? Okay.
03:33 Good. Okay.
03:36 Thank you.
03:38 Thank you.
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