How Man City should line up vs Crystal Palace

Manchester City will take on Crystal Palace at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday afternoon, hoping to continue their undefeated start to the new season.

The Blues dropped points for the first time this term in a 3-3 draw at Newcastle last weekend, but returning to winning ways will be no easy task against Patrick Vieira's Palace.

The London side have become something of a bogey team for City in recent years, losing just one of their last four league meetings with Pep Guardiola's side. In this fixture last season, City lost 2-0.

Guardiola will be looking to avoid a repeat of that, although there are question marks surrounding the availability of some of his players.

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Aymeric Laporte continues to recover from knee surgery, and Guardiola was unsure whether Nathan Ake and Jack Grealish - who both missed the midweek trip to Barcelona - would be fit enough to feature.

Below, our City writers have picked who they think should start for City. You pick your own starting XI using the team selector widget at the bottom of the article.

Simon Bajkowski

City only have two fit centre-backs and the full-backs are automatic picks as long as they are fit, although Sergio Gomez did look good in the opening 45 minutes at Barcelona. While it got overrun at Newcastle, the midfield trio that have started the season so well deserve to carry on.

Bernardo Silva had a hand in two goals so should keep his place, but I would move him over to the left wing with Phil Foden having struggled to get into games and Jack Grealish likely absent with injury. Riyad Mahrez has had to be patient for opportunities but could do with coming in and starting a game.

Julian Alvarez looked