Palace Preview: In-form Man City provide stern test for Eag

Crystal Palace will look to make it three games unbeaten at the Etihad Stadium as they travel to Manchester City on Sunday, 17th January (19:15 GMT).

It will be no easy task against a Manchester City side in fantastic form, on a run of seven straight victories in all competitions. In that time, City have conceded just twice while scoring 16 times.

Indeed, since a 1-0 victory over Olympiakos in November, Pep Guardiola’s side has kept 11 clean sheets in 14 games. It’s a defensive record that Roy Hodgson is aware can be daunting to opponents.

“Victories where they’re not conceding goals or conceding many goal chances – that’s always a worry for an opponent like ourselves,” he said in his…