For the second time in three days, Manchester City those four goals to win your match Premier League. After Wednesday’s 4-1 win against Aston Villa, this Saturday they won as a visitor by 4-2 a Crystal Palace in a game in which they lost three minutes into the game. Thus, the Citizen have 70 points, the same as Liverpool, with a better goal difference and their game on date 32, in their visit to Manchester United, scheduled for this Sunday. Arsenal, who beat Brighton 3-0, He is provisionally the only leader, with 71.
Jean-Philippe Mateta He opened the scoring with a cross shot that hit the base of a post and went in, after a quick counterattack on a ball lost by City in the rival field. A bad pass from John Stones to Julián Álvarez, who started, triggered the surprise with the Frenchman’s goal.
Crystal Palace’s first goal
The tie came 10 minutes later, with a great goal from Kevin De Bruyne. The Belgian hooked, angled and took a right hand that slipped into the corner at the far post, after receiving Jack Grealish, who accelerated from the left and invented a pass between two rivals, almost on the edge of the baseline. The reaction of Pep Guardiola was to raise your arms to celebrate and throw kisses pointing to the author of 1-1.
Kevin De Bruyne’s great goal
From that moment on, City dominated the game, although with a big scare near the end of the first half, when goalkeeper Stefan Ortega Moreno appealed to a dribble to save a mistake from Rodri. The Spaniard touched back without seeing that Mateta was there and the goalkeeper had to resort to that risk to move the ball away from the forward and clear.
Ortega Moreno’s dribble to save City
He had to wait until the second half to take the lead and begin to settle the Manchester City duel. After 2 minutes, Once again Grealish went deeper into an advance and launched a center to the middle of the area that received Rico Lewis after a detour and defined, between legs that crossed and another detour. It was 2-1.
Lewis’ goal for Manchester City
The third was from Erling Haaland, the tournament’s scorer. The Norwegian reached 19 points, who went ahead of his marker and pushed an assist from De Bruyne into the net, again with City attacking from the left.
El gol de Haaland para Manchester City
The 4-1 score was another great goal, with De Bruyne scoring at the near post after a combination with Manuel Akanji, Rodri and Grealish, who took out two rivals inside the area before looking for a back pass. There were 20 left and the visitor had already finished the game.
De Bruyne’s other great goal for Manchester City
Guardiola, who left Phil Foden on the bench and only gave some minutes to Bernardo Silva and Mateo Kovacic, He continued with the rotation thinking about the beginning of the Champions League quarterfinal series against Real Madrid and Julián Álvarez was replaced. In that context, Crystal Palace’s discount came, with a touch on the Frenchman’s near post. Odsonne Edouard after a center from Jeff Schlupp, in a combination between two that entered the second half.
Edouard’s goal for Crystal Palace
Given the numerous losses suffered by the current European and Premier champions and in anticipation of next Tuesday’s duel with Real Madrid, Guardiola lined up a mix of starters and substitutes that gave him good results.
After this victory, City shares second place with Liverpool, before the Reds play on Sunday at Old Trafford against Manchester United. One point above both is Arsenal, who beat Brighton 3-0 at the end of the day on Saturday, who is ninth and aspires to reach a qualifying position for an international cup.
The summary of Arsenal’s win
With such a tight fight, each point can be decisive and City had a complicated outing to Selhurst Park, on the outskirts of London.