Manchester City beat visiting Crystal Palace at the Etihad Stadium

Guardiola’s side sit at the top of the Premier League with 16 points after six games.

Guardiola was reluctant to entertain stylistic comparisons between the Barca and Bayern Munich sides he led and his current crop, again taking the opportunity to remind his players that achievements at the season’s end are the ones that endure.

“After the first few matches it does seem like they now have a squad capable of winning the league”, Scholes is quoted as saying by Sportstar on the sidelines of the ongoing Premier Futsal.

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has insisted that there is still key improvements needed from The Citizens despite another high-scoring victory on Saturday with a 5-0 win over struggling Crystal Palace.

“It’s great to see players playing for the team even at a big club where they’re expected to go and dominate”.

“The players know it is September”.

Combined with a 4-0 thrashing of Feyenoord in the Champions League, and a more modest 2-1 victory over West Brom in the League Cup, City’s momentum since the last global break has been formidable. Manchester City had more chances to win this match than Crystal Palace when we look at the last 14 matches in all competition.

Speaking via the Manchester Evening News, Pep said: “We need our fans – hopefully they can come”.

Sane delivered a low cross to set up an easy tap-in in the 51st for Sterling, who then scored from close range from Sergio Aguero’s cushioned volley in the 58th. We’d played some good football. “We need to keep improving and working hard”. That is the secret. Everything is clicking and we are lucky enough to watch this game in and game out.

Manchester City was leading Crystal Palace, 1-0, but you’d never have known by the actions of its coach.

With the form of these two clubs recently, Manchester City should be able to win this match easily.

City only have a couple of injury issues with Vincent Kompany unlikely to play despite being back in training for over a week. “The club trust him – that is why we have invested a lot of money in him”.

It was not long though before he made amends as De Bruyne played the ball to the far post and Aguero put the ball into the path of Sterling, who made no mistake, to continue their fine form in front of goal this season. With six goals and two assists, he has now been involved in more goals in his first six Premier League appearances than any other Chelsea player.