Crystal Palace manager Sam Allardyce has admitted it has taken him longer than expected to turn around the Eagles' fortunes in the Premier League.
Allardyce, who is considered a specialist in relegation battles, took charge of the London club in December.
However, like his predecessor Alan Pardew, he has not yet managed to stop the Eagles' free fall down the table and Palace have won just one of their eight league fixtures to occupy 19th spot in the table.
But Allardyce feels he can soon take Palace on a run just as he did with Sunderland last season.
"Sunderland started to change about now but I had been there a lot longer," Allardyce told Sky Sports.
"Getting here in late December meant that there wasn't a lot of time to assess the players.
"The turnaround hasn't been as quick as I would have liked. People will look at my track record and say, 'Sam will do it' but I can't do it on my own, the players have got to do it for me.
"But then you look at what has happened at Swansea with Paul [Clement] and people are looking for that change around immediately.
"We just haven't had that but there is still enough time to come between now and the end of the season to get that three wins out of four or four out of five.
"We can have that little run - we'd have liked it quicker, obviously - but somewhere along the line, that run of undefeated games which took us away from the bottom at Sunderland last year has to come."
Source: tribalfootball.com