Despite having plenty of experience in getting teams out of trouble, Crystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson has admitted relegation battles are getting tougher with age, the Telegraph report.
The 71-year-old, who took over at Selhurst Park last year, guided the club to safety last season, however, the Eagles are slipping into another relegation battle during the current campaign.
Palace have won just once in their last 11 Premier League fixtures, with that victory coming against Burnley last month.
Hodgson’s side currently sit 16th in the table, just two points clear of the drop zone, after suffering back-to-back away defeats against Brighton and West Ham earlier this month.
And talking ahead of the Eagles’ home clash with Leicester City on Saturday afternoon, Hodgson admitted being involved in a relegation battle ‘gets worse as you get older’.
All of the top managers I have come across during my career, they suffer as much with the defeats and when things don’t go their way late in life as they did early in life. In fact, I would say probably the opposite.
You can get over it a bit easier when you are younger because then maybe you haven’t got a record to protect, you haven’t got a period in your life when you have been successful and won games. Those periods are still to come, they are still in front of you so you have got that optimism if you like that ‘yeah it’s going badly at the moment, but my day will come’. So I think it gets worse as you get older.
Palace are also set to be without star man Wilfried Zaha against the Foxes after picking up a suspension.
The Eagles have failed to win any of their last 13 matches without the Ivory Coast international in the squad, a run which stretches back to September 2016.
