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Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Defeat is a 'bitter blow' - Hodgson
Roy Hodgson's future as Liverpool boss remains in the balance following their 3-1 loss to Blackburn on Wednesday.
That defeat left the 18-time English champions 12th in the Premier League, four points above the relegation zone.
After the game the under-fire manager said he would not discuss his future, saying he felt "dejection, bitter disappointment, frustration".
But Friday's media conference ahead of Saturday's FA Cup tie with Manchester United will be hosted by Hodgson.
The 63-year-old former Fulham manager replaced Rafael Benitez at Anfield in July, but has struggled to win over the Liverpool fans so far this season, as the team have laboured in mid-table.
Earlier in the season they suffered an embarrassing Carling Cup home defeat at the hands of League Two outfit Northampton, and face a two-legged tie against Sparta Prague in February after progressing past the group stage of the Europa League.
A win over fierce rivals United on Saturday would help Hodgson's case hugely, and go some way to making up for recent results such as the 1-0 home defeat by Wolves on 29 December.
After that game, Hodgson suggested frustrated fans would be better served by getting behind the team rather than on their backs, a comment which he was later forced to retract and apologise for.
Last weekend's last-gasp 2-1 win over Bolton seemed to buy Hodgson valuable breathing space, but the pressure on him returned following the loss at his former club Blackburn.
The former Inter Milan and Switzerland boss was appointed by Liverpool before the current owners, New England Sports Ventures, took over the club in October.
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