Palace v Manchester City

Selhurst Park, Sunday 12.00pm

Selhurst Park

Team news

Eagles manager Roy Hodgson will assess his players on the day of the game with many carrying knocks from Thursday's defeat at home to Arsenal.

Hodgson may decide to rest a couple of names against City due to the heavy festive fixture schedule. However, defender Mamadou Sakho (calf) and striker Connor Wickham (knee) are definitely out.

Manchester City stars David Silva, Fabian Delph, Vincent Kompany and John Stones are injury worries for manager Pep Guardiola, while Phil Foden (ankle) is out.

Quotes

Roy Hodgson

"We have a few knocks. There's no doubt that when I see the players tomorrow there will be several doubtful. Not necessarily serious injuries, but they may be sufficient to keep them out [against] Man City. The squad is not enormous.

"I know our fans will be back on Sunday to support us in the same way. We'll put out the best 11 we can and those players will be doing their level best."

Pep Guardiola

"It's not easy to maintain our focus in [the festive] period, everyone is on holiday, everyone has a party at home.

"To be focused after 17 games in a row is not easy but we did it [against Newcastle]. We are so happy to win again and just think about Selhurst Park now.

"Of course we are so happy to break records, because we keep having one more, one more, but when we prepare for games we don't speak about records, we just speak about what we have to win."

Manchester City - league stats

Position	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points
1st	20	19	1	0	58

Full league table

Last five results

Date	Type	Home Team	Score	Away Team
23/09/2017	League	Manchester City	5 - 0	Crystal Palace
06/05/2017	League	Manchester City	5 - 0	Crystal Palace
28/01/2017	FA Cup	Crystal Palace	0 - 3	Manchester City
19/11/2016	League	Crystal Palace	1 - 2	Manchester City
16/01/2016	League	Manchester City	4 - 0	Crystal Palace

All time results

Last meeting

Manchester City 5-0 Palace

Saturday September 23 2017

Manchester City: Ederson, Walker, Stones (Delph, 70), Mendy (Danilo, 29), Otamendi, Sane, Silva, Fernandinho, De Bruyne, Sterling (Silva, 61), Aguero

Subs not used: Mangala, Toure, Gabriel Jesus, Bravo

Goals: Sane (44), Sterling (51, 59), Aguero (79), Delph (89)

Bookings: Mendy, Sane, Danilo

Palace: Hennessey, van Aanholt, Dann, Fosu-Mensah, Sakho, Townsend, Milivojevic, R Loftus-Cheek, Schlupp, Cabaye (Puncheon, 57), Benteke (Sako, 72)

Subs not used: McArthur, Ward, Riedewald, Speroni, Tomkins

Bookings: Schlupp