Crystal Palace boss, Roy Hodgson has claimed that Chelsea is a tough team to beat, despite their ongoing struggles in the Premier League this season.
The Blues will take on Palace at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday night with hopes of bouncing back from the disappointment of losing 2-1 to Wolves the last time out.
Chelsea are 11th on the log at the moment, while Palace are 15th, and Hodgson admits Mauricio Pochettino’s men will be a tough test.
He told cpfc.co.uk: “When you look at their squad and their players, I think most teams will look at it and think this is going to be a very, very tough game because they’ve got some very, very good players.
“The thing about form is it could just be that some of the players are finding their feet at the club and playing as well as their reputations would suggest. Football, at any level, is not rocket science. If you are a very, very rich club and you have the ability to bring in players who actually cost a lot of money, that maybe other clubs can’t afford, sooner or later there’s a chance those players will start performing in the way that everyone expects them to perform.
“That’s basically what we will have to expect… I believe that we’ll go there, and we’ll give them as good a game as we’ve given the last three teams we’ve played, all of which are teams who are European teams. One’s a European champion, the other one’s a European champion a year ago, and Brighton are playing in European football after a very good season.
“There’ll be other teams that we’ll play in the league going forward that maybe don’t have European ambitions and maybe haven’t spent the sort of money that some of these other clubs have spent.”