Crystal Palace need their upcoming winter break more than anyone after another damaging result against Everton.
Palace's 3-1 defeat at Goodison Park left them six points off the relegation zone and nobody in the division has scored fewer than their 23 in 26 matches.
'We are going to use the time allotted to us. We aren't taking the players away as a team but we are allowing them to go away individually,' said manager Roy Hodgson, whose next fixture is a six-pointer against Newcastle in a fortnight.
'The idea of this winter break is that the players should be given a mental and physical break.