Guardiola: No room for complacency against Palace

Despite City's strong start to the new seoason, the Spaniard is aware of the relentless nature of the Premier League and it keen to ensure that his side are focussed ahead of their game against the Premier League's whipping boys and revealed that he has been using video footage to demonstrate Palace's threat to his players.

Speaking ahead of the clash, Guardiol told the press: ‘It’s the Premier League. From the beginning, every single team can beat the others, that is the best expression I learned since I arrived.

‘I show to my players all the chances they create in just two games. They didn't score but they have quality. When you see (Christian) Benteke, (Andros) Townsend and (Yohan) Cabaye, they have quality.

‘It depends on us. If we keep our level we'll win the game. But you have to be careful. I want to see the respect for the opponents. They have to know we can lose the game. 

'They have to know that. They have to go to sleep tonight and know that tomorrow, we can lose that game. If that happens, we will be closer to winning that game.’

Roy Hodgson will be the man in the Palace dugout after the 70-year-old replaced Frank de Boer to become the oldest newly-appointed manager in Premier League history.

Guardiola expressed his admirtation for the former England boss, though he brushed off suggestions that he would coach until he was that age.

‘Definitely not,’ he replied, when asked if he would still be coaching at the age of 70. ‘I promise you. I love golf!

‘But I admire him. He’s had a long career and I respect that. I love the people who stay there for a long time. They have ups and downs, success and not success, and they keep going, because of their passion.

‘I admire him at 70 to have the energy to put in front of the players, to prepare for the games, have the adrenaline to know what's going to happen. He's been with England and Switzerland. For a long time, he was the England team’s national coach, so that’s good.’

Sergio Aguero can become City's all-time reocord goalscorer if he can repeat his hat-trick heroics of last week and Guardiola says that it is only a matter of time before the man that he has decribed as a City 'legend' makes the reocord his own.

‘The first thing is, that is going to happen. He'll take that record. Secondly he has to be proud and City has to be proud. Being a long time in one place and breaking the record is so fantastic. I'll try to help him score more goals,‘ Guardiola concluded.