Crystal Palace vs Man City LIVE: Premier League result and final score as Bernardo Silva misses sitter

Kick-off only a few minutes away at Selhurst Park. A ‘football stands together’ message adorns the side of the pitch as the lights dim and the colours of Ukraine light up the ground.

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola tells Sky Sports: “It’s always a nice test, a tough test. [Patrick Vieira] was one of the best midfield players of all time. In his first season [as manager] he has got good results. He has a lot of quality up front and they are solid defensively as well.”

An in-depth discussion on Sky Sports’ Monday Night Football show about football club ownership in the Premier League, with both Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher typically articulate on the topic. They warn of a key turning point for English football and say it could be the end of state-linked money investing in the game.

Some pictures from a moody night in south London:

Meanwhile there are no changes by Patrick Vieira, who names the same XI which beat Wolves last week. Palace are 11th and can climb to ninth with victory here against the champions.

So Joao Cancelo is passed fit after Pep Guardiola had said in midweek that he could be a doubt due to illness. Ruben Dias misses out so Aymeric Laporte and John Stones continue in defence, while its Riyad Mahrez, Jack Grealish and Phil Foden up front.

Crystal Palace: Guaita, Clyne, Andersen, Guehi (C), Mitchell, Kouyate, Schlupp, Gallagher, Olise, Mateta, Zaha. Subs: Butland, Matthews, Ward, Tomkins, Riedewald, Ayew, Eze, Benteke, Edouard.

Manchester City: Ederson, Walker, Stones, Laporte, Cancelo, Rodrigo, De Bruyne (C), Bernardo, Mahrez, Foden, Grealish. Subs: Steffen, Carson, Ake, Sterling, Gundogan, Jesus, Zinchenko, Fernandinho, Mbete.

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Patrick Vieira has issued a hands-off warning to potential suitors of Crystal Palace youngster Michael Olise ahead of tonight’s visit of Manchester City.

The £8m signing has flourished in his first campaign in the Premier League, scoring four times and creating five goals in all competitions.

Olise spent time at Chelsea and Manchester City as a teenager before Reading took a chance on the attacker, and he won Championship Young Player of the Year with the Royals last season.

It helped secure a summer switch to Selhurst Park and his form in south London has earned plenty of admirers, but his manager says the 20-year-old is happy where he is.

“No, all I can tell you is Michael is a Palace player and we love him,” Vieira said when asked if Olise’s contract included a release clause.

“He is happy being with us and enjoying his football. Hopefully he will be with us for a long, long period of time.”

Olise took time to settle at his new club, with a back injury forcing him to wait until September for his debut.

An impressive cameo display at the Etihad in October was a sign of things to come from the playmaker, who has been a regular since the turn of the year.

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola insists he is not motivated by the prospect of winning a treble.

City are chasing silverware on three fronts this term but, despite winning eight of them in his six years at the club, Guardiola says it is not the trophies that drive him on.

“It doesn’t motivate me, absolutely zero, lower than zero,” said Guardiola on Friday, whose side lead the Premier League and are through to the last eight of both the Champions League and FA Cup.

“These are fairy tales. The reality is tough. Sport at a high level is so difficult.”

Guardiola is instead focusing on winning individual games and the next of them is tonight’s league trip to Crystal Palace.

With second-placed Liverpool, who trail by six points, having a game in hand and visiting the Etihad Stadium next month, the title race is tight.

Guardiola feels there is little margin for error in any game remaining this term and will treat them all as cup finals.

“Selhurst Park is always a difficult place to go,” the Spaniard said. “It is a final for us and we know it. Hopefully we can prepare well to arrive on Monday in good shape to face the opponent.

“Always in my mind when we start to play the last 10 games of the Premier League every game is a final. When you have to play 55 games it is not a final but when you have 10 games left it is a final.”

Palace beat City 2-0 when they met in Manchester in October and Guardiola anticipates another tricky encounter.

He said: “The team we faced was really good and seeing the run Crystal Palace are having right now - just one loss in the last eight games in all competitions, the physicality they have, the organisation, the quality up front, especially with (Wilfried) Zaha and when they defend deep it’s so difficult to break down, good counter-attack - they are always difficult for us.”