Crystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson has praised Sean Dyche ahead of their FA Cup tie with Everton.
Palace meet Dyche's Everton in Third Round on Thursday night.
Hodgson said: I think he's done an excellent job, there's no question of that and not least of all in this most recent period when he has had to face the body blow, really, of being told that you're doing okay in the league, but we're going to take 10 points from you.
I think he and the team have reacted quite brilliantly to that. He's just a very good manager. He knows the job, he knows what needs to be done and he has the ability to engender those results with the players he works with, and to get the players believing in what needs to be done in his team to win matches.
He's done that at Burnley for very many years and now he's doing it at Everton, so I like him. I have enormous respect for him. I think he's an outstanding manager, but I'm only really saying everything which anyone else in this league who's worked either with him or played against him would say."
On Everton, he also said: They'll be organised, they'll be very disciplined, they'll be hard-working. They know exactly what their jobs are on the field. They have a very clear philosophy that they'll know exactly what they think they need to do to stop us playing and to cause us problems when they've got the ball.
I'm really describing something which a good manager and coach should be trying to produce in his team. And I'm talking about a good manager and coach, who's got good players, so it's a very, very tough game.
If you're going into the third round of the FA Cup, you wouldn't exactly pick Everton as your first opponent, but that's what we got coming out of the hat, and so that's what we'll deal with. We know they'll make it hard for us, but it'll be our job to make it hard for them."
