Man City vs Crystal Palace prediction and odds: Eagles no pushover for Premier League champions

Check out our 11/10 Man City vs Crystal Palace prediction below

If Manchester City had a bogey side in the Premier League last season it was surely Crystal Palace. The Eagles were one of only two sides to win at the Etihad before holding Pep Guardiola's side to a 0-0 draw at Selhurst Park in March.

City have actually only won this fixture once in the last four seasons, so this isn't the formality of game the odds imply and punters rushing in to back the Premier League champions at 1/5 with Betway are by no means certan to be on a winner. Patrick Vieira's side are 12/1 to repeat last year's trick and influct a first defeat of the season on City.

This looks a distinctly tougher fixture for City than their last home game against Bournemouth, which they dominated in the extreme. Palace are well organised and incredibly dangerous on the break, as they showed at Anfield a couple of weeks ago.

City did enough to take all three points against Newcastle last weekend but showed some vulnerabilities in allowing the hosts several big opportunities (xGA 1.8). That is by some distance the most trouble City have looked in during a game so far this season and it will surely provide Palace with a good deal of optimism that they can go to the Etihad and cause the hosts problems.

Palace followed their point at Anfield by dispatching Aston Villa with relative ease last weekend, a game in which Wilf Zaha scored twice. The former Manchester United winger has looked really sharp in the opening games of the season and City cannot allow him the time and space to run at defenders in the final third.

City have a score to settle with Palace after losing this fixture last term but that doesn't mean that this is a formality for short-odds