'Palace have a really good squad and manager' - Kelly

Former Crystal Palace full-back Martin Kelly believes the current side "have a really good manager" and backed the Eagles' home form to help them survive in the Premier League this season.

Despite Palace being mired in the relegation zone, Kelly told BBC World Service's Sportsworld programme he does not believe their top-flight status is in danger.

"They've got a really good manager in Oliver [Glasner]," he said, "and the home form at Palace always gets them over the line. They always manage to get results against the big sides and it's the sides who are in and around the same position as Palace they'll be looking to try and get the results against.

"The injuries aren't great for Palace at the minute, but they've still got a really good squad."

Kelly spent eight years at Selhurst Park and experienced a wide range of managers during his time. He explained that certain philosophies were better suited than others to the group of players at the club.

"When a manager comes in, you know if you have the right players to play his tactics," Kelly said. "We went from Sam Allardyce, who really simplified the game of football to Frank [de Boer], who was total football at Ajax and tried implementing that in Inter but that never worked out and then came to us.

"It was the first big risk that the chairman at Palace and the board took with us as players and it was probably four or five seasons too early. If Frank was back now, it may have been different.

“The most modern manager we had was Patrick [Vieira] who was trying to imprint his philosophy and style of play of was playing out from the back and it was at probably the right time.

"The difficulty with Frank was we didn't have the players to play out from the back and in the Premier League you don't get time. We had the pre-season - that was it."

"The rest of the managers were all sort of similar, quite structured and Roy [Hodgson] was ultra defensive. Roy was very big on not conceding and never scored that much, which ultimately probably cost him his job in the end. Palace stayed up for so many years but wanted to see more football. Fair play to the fans for wanting that."