Crystal Palace 0-3 Man City LIVE – Guardiola praises players’ resilience and fight after win

“Absolutely, he has a lot of margin to understand the game. He will not improve his incredible quality because he’s top, but understanding the game in certain moments, the way you have to play and sometimes accelerate the game, just the timing and the tempo, everyone has margin to improve.”

“I think Phil today was not good. He didn’t play at his best. He lost a lot of balls. He was rash in the decisions, so anxious. And he has to play, just keep the ball, be associated with the other ones, and at the right moment make an explosion that only he has in terms of goals and assists.

“But before he arrives there, he has to be more calm. Sometimes he makes the situations not clear but in terms of work ethic defensively, how he presses and how he comes back, it’s invaluable. It’s incredible.”

“Ruben (Dias) is an incredible leader. Consistent, no injuries, his professionalism. How he leads. He’s an incredible signing for Man City for many years and for many years to come. He’s a real captain, a real leader.

“And Josko today, again, made a top game, didn’t make mistakes with or without the ball and this is the step he has to make.”

More from Guardiola when asked about the fight his team showed: “When you win in the past, you believe the past was always perfect, always brilliant, always red carpets, always was easier. When we won 100 points and all the titles, we won’t talk about all we achieve because we’ll be too late to go home to sleep, we had a lot of games like today. The resilience was part of that.

“There are moments where you struggle and Madrid was not a perfect game. Madrid was not where you have to be to win important things but it’s a step. We were there. We fought with five in the back in the last moments. We fought unbelievably to achieve that and that builds something, then after we will see.”

Guardiola in his post-match press conference: “Many things we have to improve. Madrid gave me a lot of signals that we are not ready in terms of how to approach certain games because they are young, some players.

“But of course we are really, really pleased because I know how tough they (Crystal Palace) are and to win 3-0 here is a good statement for us.”

Pep Guardiola speaking to Sky Sports: “It is a really tough place to come. When you lose the ball they attack incredibly well but we were patient. We were lucky when they hit the post from Wharton but really pleased for the performance and victory to grow our mentality.”

Phil Foden speaking after City’s win: “The most important thing is patience. I think we maybe tried to attack too quickly. In the second half we did a lot better. That was the key for getting the result today.

“We had more control and more passes that is the City way. It is a full team performance.”

Full time at Selhurst Park and it’s a comfortable win for Manchester City!

There will be five minutes additional time.

Rayan Ait-Nouri, Nico Lewis and Omar Marmoush replace Bernardo Silva, Erling Haaland and Nico O’Reilly.

Haaland converts from the spot!

Game, set and match.

Palace push forward, and it allows Savinho with the entire of Selhurst Park to run into, he then takes the ball round Dean Henderson who takes him out and City now have a chance to score a third.

Man City continue to live dangerously in their own penalty area, but they manage to block Palace’s advances.

Tijjani Reijnders is off for Savinho.

Good save from Donnarumma to deny Nketiah from close range.

The Italian then gets his hand on the ball to punch away the Palace corner.

Ismaila Sarr is denied once again from close range as City try to see out the game.

Nathaniel Clyne comes off for Christantus Uche.

Much more like Manchester City now. Controlling the ball, looking dangerous going forward and more assured in possession.

That should be the game for Manchester City, as Phil Foden fires from range to extend the visitors advantage.

Will Hughes replaces Kamada.

Kamada is down and receiving treatment, Will Hughes is getting ready to come on and replace him.

Jean-Philippe Mateta is replaced by Eddie Nketiah.

Daichi Kamada is shown a yellow card for clattering into Rayan Cherki.

One day, one of these chances will go in for Crystal Palace.

Pino tees up Wharton who strikes first time, but his effort balloons over the bar.