MAMADOU Sakho felt "aggrieved" at being penalised for the penalty which cost Crystal Palace a point in their 2-1 defeat at Cherries, according to Roy Hodgson.

The defender appeared to elbow Jefferson Lerma in the face after Ryan Fraser’s free-kick was delivered into the area, leaving referee Mike Dean with no option but to award a spot-kick three minutes from time.

Substitute Junior Stanislas capitalised by scoring his first Premier League goal since his return from a serious knee injury, consigning Palace to a fourth defeat from seven.

But Hodgson defended Sakho and said: "He feels aggrieved. In football, when you give a penalty away it's because you've deliberately stopped a player scoring a goal but not with an unintentional collision.

"Mamadou Sakho had no intention to elbow the player or use an elbow to stop the player getting to the ball.

"I can't deny that, when you see it on the television, he does catch the player and as a result the referee is quite within his rights to give the penalty.

"It's always frustrating losing to a needless free-kick given away and then to a penalty.

"We paid a high price for the mistakes we made. We ended up with nothing to show for our efforts."