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BT Sport chat to Roy Hodgson, and he fills up plenty of airtime with some metaphorical musing. “When you get this far in the competition, you see the Wembley towers in front of you and you dream of getting there. So you know how important it is to give a good performance on the day. It’s never easy going away from home, to a Premier League club, but we’ve got this opportunity and I hope the players will do their level best. It would be wonderful if we could reach the semi-final. I’ve never reached the semi-final in England, I’ve been lucky enough to do it once or twice in foreign countries, but the quarter-final is the first time I’ve got so far in the FA Cup, so it’s an opportunity for the players to elevate me to a new milestone in my career! It would be very nice if they do! I don’t know why our away form is so good, it’s quite strange. Our level of performance hasn’t varied enormously. I think we’re being shown quite a lot of respect at home these days. We don’t have a vastly different approach. Wilf Zaha has a tight hamstring, we’ve been nursing it all week, unfortunately he didn’t come through so we didn’t want to risk him.”
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Written by Scott Murray
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