ROY'S PLEA: GIVE ME A FAREWELL I CAN BE PROUD OF

ROY HODGSON wants his leaving gift from his Crystal Palace players to be an honourable farewell rather than another humbling from Liverpool.

- NEIL SQUIRES

Having lost 7-0 at home in December, the 73-year-old will take charge of the Eagles in his 162nd and final game at Anfield with no Ebere Eze, or Luka Milivojevic, and a doubt over Christian Benteke.

Palace look vulnerable to another mugging, but a repeat result would be no way for one of football’s gentlemen to ride off into the sunset.

“It is going to be a tough afternoon for us,” admitted Hodgson. “We are still reeling from the last time, when we were taken apart by them. We have got to at least mobilise enough strength, power, desire, determination and pride in performance to make certain that on this occasion we don’t succumb to a heavy defeat.