Manchester City 3-1 Crystal Palace: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 15 January 2005

Result

Manchester City 3-1 Crystal Palace

Premier League · Saturday 15 January 2005, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Manchester City 3-1 Crystal Palace: match report

Manchester City defeated Crystal Palace 3-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 15 January 2005. It was 2-1 at half-time.

Shaun Wright-Phillips opened the scoring in the 12th minute. Manchester City's goals came from Shaun Wright-Phillips (12'), Robbie Fowler (15') and Shaun Wright-Phillips (90'). Crystal Palace scored through Darren Powell (32').

Discipline: Manchester City received 2 yellow cards; Crystal Palace received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Manchester City were 9th on 28 points from 22 and Crystal Palace 17th on 18 points from 22. Manchester City went on to finish that season 8th with 52 points, and Crystal Palace 18th with 33.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Manchester City win, 0 draws and 0 for Crystal Palace.

Going into the match Manchester City's last five read D-W-D-L-W and Crystal Palace's W-L-D-L-L.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 12'Goal · Shaun Wright-PhillipsManchester City · 1-0
  • 15'Goal · Robbie FowlerManchester City · 2-0
  • 32'Goal · Darren PowellCrystal Palace · 2-1
  • 67'Yellow card · Richard DunneManchester City
  • 81'Yellow card · Mikele LeigertwoodCrystal Palace
  • 90'Yellow card · Joey BartonManchester City
  • 90'Goal · Shaun Wright-PhillipsManchester City · 3-1

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Manchester City 1, draws 0, Crystal Palace 0.

Team news

Manchester City line-up

Ben Thatcher, Sylvain Distin, Danny Mills, Richard Dunne, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Jon Macken, David James, Robbie Fowler, Antoine Sibierski, Joey Barton, Paul Bosvelt