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Crystal Palace striker Stephen Dobbie told Goals on Sunday his team are confident they can still challenge for automatic promotion to the Premier League this season.

Dobbie was part of Goal on Sunday's preview to the Capital One Cup final between Bradford and his former side Swansea. He scored one of Swansea's four goals in the Championship play-off final when Brendan Rodgers' side beat Reading to reach the Premier League in 2011. And he sees similarities between the way Rodgers motivated his squad in the latter stages of their promotion push two years ago and the approach of his current boss Holloway. "Brendan is quite similar to Ollie in that he was a great motivator. You find the players want to play for him because of the kind of man he is and I think that drove us on a lot in the last part of the season. "We managed to get win where we were may be struggling to at the start of the season. It is a hard league to get out of but you need to get a run going."

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