Man City vs Crystal Palace LIVE: Kevin de Bruyne conjures up City comeback from two targets down
Manchester City welcome Crystal Palace to the Etihad Stadium as they attempt to further their bid for a Champions League place.
A dreary derby draw represented another disappointing performance from Pep Guardiola’s side in the absence of Erling Haaland, though their hopes of salvaging a difficult season have been boosted with the Premier League now guaranteed five qualification spots in Europe’s top tier. Manchester City can put the pressure on Chelsea and Newcastle, who play tomorrow, by climbing above the pair with victory here.
A win will not come easily, though, against a visiting side in fine form. A chaotic, card-riddled clash with rivals Brighton provided a fourth win in five league games as Oliver Glasner continues to take the south London club up the table. Three points here would continue their charge into the top half as they seek another strong end to the season.
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Manchester City 5-2 Crystal Palace
90 minutes: Seven minutes added on for Palace to try to not concede again.
Manchester City 5-2 Crystal Palace
88 mins: More subs for City. Kevin de Bruyne gets a standing ovation as he comes off along with Kovacic. Doku and Grealish are on.
CHANCE! Manchester City 5-2 Crystal Palace
86 mins: Palace get the chance to pull one back as they launch a rare counter-attack int his second half. Franca smashes a cross across the face of goal, with Sarr desperate to get there, but it drifts just wide. It goes out for a corner but Ortega manages to punch it away, and it’s out for another Palace corner.
Devenny misses a kick and Clyne smashes it over the bar.
Ederson goes off after mixed day at the office
Ederson has gone off after another idiosyncratic display. At fault for one goal, he created another. He has four Premier League assists this season, a total topped only by Savinho and De Bruyne. But his mistakes have been too frequent.
Manchester City 5-2 Crystal Palace
82 mins: Changes for both sides. Devenny and Franca come on for Wharton and Eze, and Marmoush and McAtee are replaced by Savinho and Bobb. McAtee gets a big hug from Guardiola.
GOAL! Manchester City 5-2 Crystal Palace
79 mins: Outstanding goal from O’Reilly for 5-2! City pile the pressure on once more, McAtee lobs in a cross, Palace fail to clear and instead knock it straight into the path of O’Reilly. The youngster shoots and it takes a slight deflection off Clyne and into the back of the net past a diving Henderson.
Manchester City 4-2 Crystal Palace
76 mins: Chilwell sends in a looping cross to Sarr in the centre of the box in the visitors most promising passage of play for a while, but it’s offside.
Those injury stoppages have sucked the life out of this game a little bit now.
Manchester City 4-2 Crystal Palace
74 mins: It looked like Ederson pulled something in his groin playing a short pass.
In a bit of a holding pattern now. Palace have a little bit of possession but look nothing like the bright, energetic side that scored two on the counter in the early stages of this match.
Manchester City 4-2 Crystal Palace
70 mins: McAtee goes into the book for sliding into Lerma.
Break in play as Ederson needs treatment for something or other, he looks to have injured his groin, and that’s the end of the day for Ederson. Guardiola has come out to bark orders at his players. Ortega makes the swap.
