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·11 Desember 2025

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Find out everything you need to know ahead of City's Premier League clash with Crystal Palace.

WHEN AND WHERE

Pep Guardiola’s side travel to the Capital on Sunday 14 December, with the game scheduled for kick-off at 14:00 (UK).

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The game will be shown live in the UK on Sky Sports Premier League, NOW TV, SKY GO Extra and SKY GO. You can also keep across all of the action via mancity.com and our official app, as well as the key moments on X/Twitter: @ManCity.

Supporters living around the world can find out how they can tune in via our global TV listings below, courtesy of liversoccertv.com

Opposing manager - Oliver gLASNER

Glasner played professionally as a defender for 19 years, making over 500 appearances for Austrian club, Ried.

Three years after his retirement he coached the same side for one season before taking over at German side Wolfsburg in 2019.

There he managed to qualify for the Champions League by finishing fourth in the 2020-21 Bundesliga season. Since then they have not recorded a higher finishing position.

The Austrian remained in Germany but changed to Eintracht, where his talents where displayed in the 2021/22 Europa League, reaching the final before beating Rangers 5-4 on penalties. This earned the club Champions League qualification for the first time in their history.

Glasner was appointed Crystal Palace head coach in February 2024.

The 51-year-old Austrian has since guided Palace to back-to-back record points totals in the Premier League and led them to a first major trophy as they claimed a 1-0 victory over the Blues to lift the trophy at Wembley last season.

That led to a first ever appearance in a major European competition, while they also beat league winners Liverpool to win the Community Shield.

Pep Guardiola preview

The City boss will address the media on Friday 12 December from 12:30 (UK).

You can follow along live on mancity.com and our official app, with a full written recap available shortly after its conclusion.

Danger men

Jean Phillipe Mateta has become a reliable goal-scorer in the English top flight, with 16 league goals in the 2023/24 season and 14 last campaign.

The 28-year-old is enjoying another good season with the Eagles, scoring seven goals in 13 Premier League appearances and netting nine times in all competitions. He recorded an impressive hattrick against Bournemouth scoring in the 64th, 67th and 90+7 minutes.

Ismaila Sarr has been in top form this season as a regular goal contributor. His pace and creativity will stretch the defensive line and his direct runs will exploit any last line of defence.

Former Arsenal youngster, Eddie Nketiah has already scored some important goals this season including the opening goal in Palace’s most recent league win over Fulham.

Previous meeting

We last faced the Eagles in the FA Cup final in May, as Eberechi Eze’s 16th minute goal was all that separated us from claiming the title.

Turning back to the Premier League, we faced Palace the month prior to our head to head in the cup as we played out a 5-2 victory at the Etihad Stadium.

The Blues found ourselves 2-0 down following goals from Eze and Chris Richards, before staging an incredible comeback.

With Kevin De Bruyne sparking it all, in his first appearance at the Etihad since confirmation that he was set to leave City in the summer.

The Belgian narrowed the deficit with a first half free-kick before then being involved in Omar Marmoush’s leveller before the break.

It was then De Bruyne again who set up Mateo Kovacic a minute after the restart to fire City ahead, before James McAtee – on his first Premier League start for City – extended the advantage via an outrageous Ederson assist.

Nico O’Reilly then rounded it all off by registering his first Premier League goal.

Last time out

City fought back from a goal down to secure a thrilling 2-1 victory over Real Madrid and move back into the top-eight of the Champions League table.

After falling behind to Rodrygo’s 28th minute strike, City roared back with first half goals from Nico O’Reilly and an Erling Haaland penalty to swing the points in the Blues’ favour.

Global TV listings

Supporters around the world can find out how to tune in to watch the match live by clicking here, courtesy of livesoccertv.com.

Listings correct as of Thursday 11 December.

Match officials

Referee: Darren England

Assistants: Scott Ledger, Akil Howson

Fourth official: Anthony Backhouse

VAR: Matt Donohue

Assistant VAR: Peter Wright

Crystal palace v city app coverage

Our official Man City app allows you to follow all of the action from West London in one place.

Minute-by-minute text updates will begin in our Matchday Centre two hours before kick-off, while our Matchday Live show will begin at around 12:45 (UK).

Amos Murphy and Steven McInerney will be the guests on the latest Matchday Live show, offering their expert insight before, during and after the action.

During the game you can also listen to live audio commentary from Alistair Mann and Michael Brown while our text commentary continues.

Make sure to have push notifications turned on as well, so you can be alerted to key moments in the action, including goals, red cards and the team news.

We’ll have a quick-hit 2-minute highlights package available from 17:45 (UK) while you can sign-in to watch a free 8-minute edit from midnight.

On CITY+ meanwhile, from midnight there’ll be our popular full-match replay as well as our new extended highlights offering which features the best 20 minutes of action from the game.