Crystal Palace vs Manchester City (1-3)
Raheem Sterling scored doubly as Manchester town won 3-1 at Crystal Palace to maneuver back on top of the metropolis to the highest of the Premier League table.
With the Reds reception to Chelsea soon Sunday, town place pressure on their title rivals despite Fernandinho, United Nations agency uncomprehensible December’s loss to the Eagles, being absent with Associate in Nursing injury which will rule out of next week Champions League quarter-final second leg against Tottenham.
And the town boss was any annoyed as his aspect lost their clean sheet to Luka Milivojevic’s 81st-minute free-kick, though the defending champions were still able to shut out another end at Selhurst Park due to Gabriel Jesus’ precise finish.
Sterling wasted a golden chance to place town ahead within the tenth minute, somehow missing from shut vary when being bright founded by David sylva.
But Britain forward was before long celebrating his twentieth club goal of the season altogether competitions, athletics on to an ideal pass from the recalled Kevin Delaware Bruyne to raise an excellent end into Vicente Guaita’s top-left corner, with the goalkeeper’s positioning questionable.
Guaita saved from Delaware Bruyne when Ilkay Gundogan’s chip into the Palace box caused chaos and Benjamin Mendy unemployed straight at the goalkeeper before the interval.
Palace was holding on praiseworthily. However, town unbolted the door once more within the 63rd minute.
Aguero’s substitution, the striker, taking place the tunnel when being replaced by Jesus, might affect City’s possibilities of clinching a historic quadruple and that they had to endure a nervy couple of minutes when Palace captain Milivojevic exploited a large hole within the wall to beat Ederson.
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Goals Crystal Palace
| 81′ | Crystal Palace | L. Milivojevic |
Goals Manchester City
| 15′ | Manchester City | R. Sterling |
| 63′ | Manchester City | R. Sterling |
| 90′ | Manchester City | Gabriel Jesus |
Crystal Palace Lineups
| 31 | Vicente Guaita |
| 29 | Aaron Wan-Bissaka |
| 34 | Martin Kelly |
| 6 | Scott Dann |
| 3 | Patrick van Aanholt |
| 10 | Andros Townsend |
| 18 | James McArthur |
| 4 | Luka Milivojević |
| 15 | Jeffrey Schlupp |
| 11 | Wilfried Zaha |
| 17 | Christian Benteke |
Manchester City Lineups
| 31 | Ederson |
| 2 | Kyle Walker |
| 4 | Vincent Kompany |
| 14 | Aymeric Laporte |
| 22 | Benjamin Mendy |
| 17 | Kevin De Bruyne |
| 8 | İlkay Gündoğan |
| 7 | Raheem Sterling |
| 21 | David Silva |
| 19 | Leroy Sané |
| 10 | Sergio Agüero |
Crystal Palace – Manchester City Match Statistics
Crystal Palace |
Manchester City |
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| 7 | Shots Total | 20 |
| 3 | Shots on goal | 6 |
| 2 | Shots off goal | 7 |
| 2 | Shots blocked | 7 |
| 3 | Shots inside box | 11 |
| 4 | Shots outside box | 9 |
| 5 | Fouls | 11 |
| 2 | Corners | 9 |
| 1 | Offsides | 2 |
| 4 | Saves | 2 |
| 27% | Possession Time | 73% |
| 273 | Passes Total | 723 |
| 195 | Accurate Passes | 652 |
| 71% | Accurate Passes% | 90% |
FULL-TIME | Not without a little scare, we get the job done! COME ON!!
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— Manchester City (@ManCity) April 14, 2019