Crystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson wants his players to die for the club

ROY HODGSON is looking for players to “roll up their sleeves and die for the cause” at Crystal Palace.

00:15, Tue, Sep 19, 2017 | UPDATED: 00:15, Tue, Sep 19, 2017

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Roy Hodgson lost his first Crystal Palace game in charge

Hodgson faces his second game in charge tonight as he takes on high-flying Huddersfield in the Carabao Cup third round.

The manager, 70, was beaten 1-0 by Southampton on Saturday in his first match in charge and, after Huddersfield, his team face Premier League matches against Manchester City, Manchester United and Chelsea.

He has already spoken of his belief that it could be some time before 20th-placed Palace significantly improve, despite his confidence he will inspire them to safety.

Having similarly succeeded with Fulham and West Brom, he revealed one of the first stages of that process.

“I’ll have a chance on Tuesday to see a few more players,” said Hodgson, who last week signed a two-year contract at Palace, 14 months after resigning from his post with England.

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I’ll have a chance on Tuesday to see a few more players
Crystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson

“Going forward, I’ll have a much better idea of the playing personnel, and that’s a very important factor.

“That was an important part at Fulham: looking at the playing personnel, working out who’s going to be good enough on the field and who’s going to be really ready to roll their sleeves up and die for us in this cause, because we’re not doing too well.

"That’ll be the main thing.

“In terms of confidence you’ve got to be careful. You can’t just go round to people all the time saying: ‘You’ll be OK, you’ll be fine, that was all right, bad luck’, because they need more than that.

“What you have to have is: ‘Look, what we’re doing here, or what you’re doing there, that’s not what we want, that’s not good enough, you’ve got to do this, that and the other’. And we’ve got to show them that in training, that’s what I mean by working in training.”

Huddersfield manager David Wagner, however, has warned his players that league success over Palace will count for nothing.

Wagner’s side made a superb start to Premier League life with a 3-0 victory at Selhurst Park on the opening weekend of the season – but laughed off suggestions that his team might be favourites.

He said: “This is a serious question? We have beaten them once, but that doesn’t mean we will beat them again.”