confirmed that goalkeeper Claudio Bravo will miss
the rest of the season with a calf injury.
Bravo is one of four City players ruled out of
Saturday's game against Crystal Palace, with
Sergio Aguero, John Stones and David Silva also
missing.
The Chile captain was injured while catching a
cross in City's 0-0 derby draw with Manchester
United, while Aguero sustained a groin injury in last
weekend's 2-2 draw at Middlesbrough.
"Aguero is out. Hopefully he'll be back for
Leicester," Guardiola said. "Silva is still not perfect.
Yesterday [Thursday] was his first training session.
"Stones and Bravo are out. Claudio until next
season and John will maybe return in the next
games."
Palace are still looking over their shoulder at the
bottom of the table, but Guardiola expects a tough
test from Sam Allardyce's side.
"I know how tough is Crystal Palace," he added.
"They won against Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool,
Leicester - the last champions - West Brom, Tony
Pulis is always complicated.
"But it's in our hands and we are able to take a
step forward to qualify [for the Champions League],
if we win all three games we will be in Champions
League maybe third position so it depends on us.
"Our home games was not perfect [this season] so
we have to change it and after three games we
want to play in Europe next season."
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