Vincent Kompany: 'Crystal Palace will be difficult to beat'

Vincent Kompany has said that he expects Crystal Palace to be hard to beat when they come to the Etihad Stadium this weekend.

Manchester City have a 100% record at home this season, but the Eagles have won three of their last five matches.

The captain told the team's official website: "Playing Liverpool on Boxing Day and then Crystal Palace again 48 hours later brings different challenges and there is a lot to take account of.

"As much as we would like to call ourselves favourites there will be fatigue and being the festive period, the games come thick and fast and there have already been one or two surprise results.

"Tony Pulis has done really well since taking over and my experience is that his teams are really organised and difficult to beat, but this is a home game for us and we should feel really confident of whoever we face on our own ground given the record we have at the Etihad this season."

City currently sit second in the table, while Palace are just above the relegation zone in 17th.