Manchester City piled more misery on Crystal Palace and extended their stay at the top of the Premier League table.

Leroy Sane scored City's opener, Raheem Sterling claimed a double, while Sergio Aguero edged closer to the club's all-time goalscoring record with the fourth, taking him to 176 goals, just one behind Eric Brook's long-standing record.

Substitute Fabian Delph made it 5-0 two minutes from time with a majestic curling effort from the edge of the box to compound another miserable day for Palace.

Roy Hodgson's men are still looking for their first goal of the season after drawing yet another blank to stay bottom.

Man City: Ederson, Walker, Stones, Otamendi, Mendy, De Bruyne Fernandinho, Silva, Sterling, Aguero, Sane.

Subs: Bravo, Danilo Mangala, Delph, Bernardo Silva, Gabriel Jesus, Toure.

Crystal Palace: Hennessey, Fosu-Mensah, Dann, Sakho Van Aanholt, Milivojevic, Cabaye, Townsend, Loftus-Cheek Schlupp, Benteke.

Subs: Speroni, Ward, Tomkins, McArthur, Sako Puncheon, Riedewald.

Referee: Neil Swarbrick (Lancashire)

GOAL City 3-0 (Sterling)

Sterling scores his second of the afternoon.

City are on the brink of running rampant.

Palace in trouble.

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GOAL City 2-0 (Sterling)

This is too easy for City.

Sterling gets on the scoresheet for the second week in a row.

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GOAL City 1-0 Palace (Sane)

It was predictable wasn’t it?

City were always going to find the net at some point and they did.

Smart finish from Leroy Sane to score his third Premier League goal of the season.

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Managers

Here are the two managers before the match.

Very contrasting seasons so far, with Guardiola scoring for fun while Palace are still yet to see the net bulge.

No goals today yet.

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Early team news

Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany could be back in contention for the visit of the Premier League’s bottom side Crystal Palace on Saturday.

The defender has missed the last four games with a calf injury but is back in training.

Midfielder Ilkay Gundogan will not feature after suffering a knee sprain in midweek but the problem is not serious and he should soon return to training.

Mamadou Sakho will make his first Premier League start since his permanent Crystal Palace move.

Boss Roy Hodgson has confirmed the former Liverpool defender will start at the Etihad Stadium, as the Eagles bid to rebuff rampant table-toppers City.

Wilfried Zaha remains sidelined with the knee injury he sustained on the opening day of the season.

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