The Crystal Palace supervisor has revealed the reasoning behind his substitution of Eberechi Eze with followers not pleased with the choice.
The Eagles had been knocked out of the FA Cup on Wednesday evening after their third-round replay in opposition to Everton completed 1-0 to the house aspect.
Andre Gomes scored the one objective of the sport when he curled a good looking free kick into the again of the web on the 42nd minute.
Followers weren’t impressed by Hodgson’s choice to substitute arguably their greatest attacking risk, Eze, off for Matheus Francs within the 64th minute.
The travelling assist may very well be heard chanting ‘you don’t know what you’re doing’ as their aspect chased the lead.
Talking after the sport, the England supervisor said that the choice was primarily based off health with an eye fixed on this weekend’s conflict in opposition to Arsenal.
‘If I used to be a fan, I wouldn’t have needed to see Eze taken off both, as he’s one among our greatest gamers.’ He mentioned through The Normal.
“However I additionally can be extraordinarily disillusioned as a fan if he’d have performed one other 30 or 35 minutes and acquired injured within the course of.
“We play at 12:30pm on Saturday [against Arsenal] and we want individuals like Eze”