Pep Guardiola has decided to give his Manchester City players an extra hour off on Christmas Day

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola will be able to call upon Kevin De Bruyne when they take on Crystal Palace on Saturday. Ahead of the game, Guardiola has faced the press and discussed many topics. First of all the manager provided injury updates: David Silva, Vincent Kompany, Benjamin Mendy are all still injured, while Danilo could return after training with the team and De Bruyne and Aguero came through Tuesday unscathed. What are the challenges of going back to a club as a manager? I don’t know! When a manager has the chance, it is because he is able to do it. What happened in my case was similar. Klopp said there are no weaknesses in City but Guardiola says his team definitely do. Yeah, of course. Any team has strong points and weak points. We are working on it. Of course, we have but that’s normal. These kinds of comments, I put them in perspective. Christmas plans We’re going to adapt to the calendar. On previous days we played 26th and 28th, this time we have three or four days between games. We’re probably going to train on the afternoon of the 25th before travelling to Leicester. Normally we train at 3 or 4, maybe [on Christmas Day] we are going to train at 5 or 6 to give a few more hours for people at home. The players know we have to play.

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