Live football Man City 2-1 Crystal Palace: Grealish, Lewis score

GOAL! Crystal Palace reduce the gap

Man City 2- 1 Crystal Palace

Schlupp assisted. Mateta scored.

This was a situation where Man City's defense was high, Dias did not follow the opponent's striker's escape.

Man City still completely controlled the game. Crystal Palace did not have any attack in the second half.

Henderson dived to block Silva's shot. The save caused the Crystal Palace goalkeeper to be hurt.

GOAL! Lewis scores for Man City

Man City 2-0 Crystal Palace

Rodri broke through the visitors' defence and the ball fell to Lewis, who fired it into the Crystal Palace net.

Rico Lewis scored his first Premier League goal. (Photo: Getty Images)

Alvarez took a free kick. Rodri ran in and let the ball slip past the away team's goalkeeper, surprising him. However, the referee flagged the Spanish midfielder for offside.

Second half begins

Man City have not made any substitutions. Crystal Palace were forced to take captain Ward off in the first half due to injury. David Ozoh (52) came on as his replacement.

End of first half

Man City 1-0 Crystal Palace

Man City controlled the ball nearly 75%, launched 14 shots but only had one goal in the first half.

Man City completely dominated. (Photo: Getty Images)

The visitors' first chance came from a dangerous free kick by Olise. Before that, Crystal Palace asked the referee to give goalkeeper Ederson a red card for a foul outside the penalty area.

Foden took a surprisingly long-range shot. The ball flew beyond the reach of the Crystal Palace goalkeeper but missed the target.

Goalkeeper Henderson again blocked Gvardiol's shot.

Man City pushed the opponent's formation close to the goal.

Crystal Palace goalkeeper saves against Gvardiol. This is the situation where the Man City left-back appears as a striker.

VAR - Goal Confirmation

VAR took 3 minutes to check Grealish's goal. The referees' conclusion was that the goal was valid.

Grealish scored in two consecutive matches. (Photo: Getty Images)

GOAL! Man City open the scoring

Man City 1-0 Crystal Palace

Foden assisted Grealish to score.

Rodri rushed in and shot very strongly but luckily for Crystal Palace the ball hit Mitchell's foot right in front of the goal.

The away team had to constantly defend against the opponent's attacks. Man City did not allow Crystal Palace to keep the ball.

Man City win the ball very quickly. Their centre-backs are often present in the opponent's field. (Photo: Getty Images)

Dias advanced close to the penalty area and shot from distance off target.

The home team pressed hard from the first minutes of the match. Their central defenders Dias and Ake both had situations where they pushed up very high on the opponent's field.

Alvarez positioned himself between the Palace defenders to meet Walker's perfectly placed cross. The away goalkeeper made a superb save.

THE MATCH BEGINS

Man City 0-0 Crystal Palace

Man City vs Crystal Palace lineup

Man City: Ederson (31), Josko Gvardiol (24), Nathan Ake (6), Ruben Dias (3), Kyle Walker (2), Rico Lewis (82), Rodri (16), Jack Grealish (10), Phil Foden (47), Bernardo Silva (20), Julian Alvarez (19)

Crystal Palace: Dean Henderson (30), Tyrick Mitchell (3), Marc Guehi (6), Joachim Andersen (16), Joel Ward (2), Chris Richards (26), Jairo Riedewald (44), Nathaniel Clyne (17), Jeffrey Schlupp (15), Michael Olise (7), Jean Mateta (14)

Premier League Table 2023/24

XH	Team	Battle	BT-BB	Point
1	Liverpool	16	36-15	37
2	Arsenal	16	33-15	36
3	Aston Villa	16	35-20	35
4	Man City	16	38-18	33
5	Tottenham	17	35-23	33
6	Man Utd	16	13-21	27
7	Newcastle	16	33-21	26
8	Brighton	16	33-28	26
9	West Ham	16	26-30	24
10	Fulham	16	26-26	21
11	Brentford	16	23-22	19
12	Chelsea	16	26-26	19
13	Wolverhampton	16	21-26	19
14	Bournemouth	16	21-30	19
15	Crystal Palace	16	15-23	16
16	Nottingham Forest	17	17-30	14
17	Everton	16	20-20	13
18	Luton Town	16	17-32	9
19	Burnley	16	16-34	8
20	Sheffield United	16	12-41	8

Man City vs Crystal Palace Prediction

Man City are fourth in the Premier League, three points clear of second-placed Liverpool but not far behind leaders Liverpool (four points). Recent wins over Luton Town and Red Star Belgrade have given the defending champions a boost in confidence after two consecutive games without a win.

Meanwhile, Crystal Palace are 15th in the table. The gap of 7 points from the relegation zone is safe enough at the moment. However, Crystal Palace have just gone through a series of 5 consecutive matches without a win in all competitions, including 4 defeats.

Haaland is absent due to injury. (Photo: Getty Images)

Man City have just gone 7 consecutive matches without keeping a clean sheet. In the last 10 rounds of the Premier League, Man City have only once kept their opponents from scoring (a 3-0 win over Man Utd).

Crystal Palace are among the top five clubs in the Premier League with the lowest expected goals (a measure of the quality of chances created) and only Sheffield United (bottom of the table) have scored more goals.

In the last 5 matches hosting Crystal Palace, Man City lost 2 matches and drew 1 match. They only kept one clean sheet and in the remaining 4 matches, they conceded at least 2 goals.

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