Manchester City 2-0 Crystal Palace: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 16 January 2016

Result

Manchester City 2-0 Crystal Palace

Premier League · Saturday 16 January 2016, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Manchester City 2-0 Crystal Palace: match report

Manchester City beat Crystal Palace 2-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 16 January 2016. The half-time score was 2-0.

Fabian Delph opened the scoring in the 22nd minute. Manchester City's goals came from Fabian Delph (22'), Sergio Agüero (41'), Sergio Agüero (68') and David Silva (84'). Crystal Palace did not score.

Discipline: Manchester City received no yellow cards; Crystal Palace received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Manchester City were 4th on 38 points from 21 and Crystal Palace 9th on 29 points from 21. Manchester City went on to finish that season 5th with 64 points, and Crystal Palace 15th with 42.

Manchester City lined up in a 4-4-2 and Crystal Palace in a 4-5-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Sergio Agüero of Manchester City (9.0), ahead of David Silva (8.3).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Manchester City wins, 1 draw and 0 for Crystal Palace.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 22'Goal · Fabian DelphManchester City · 1-0
  • 41'Goal · Sergio AgüeroManchester City · 2-0
  • 68'Goal · Sergio AgüeroManchester City · 3-0
  • 71'Yellow card · Marouane ChamakhCrystal Palace
  • 71'Yellow card · Marouane ChamakhCrystal Palace
  • 84'Goal · David SilvaManchester City · 4-0
  • 90'Yellow card · Yohan CabayeCrystal Palace

Head-to-head

7 meetings: Manchester City 6, draws 1, Crystal Palace 0.

Team news

Manchester City line-up (4-4-2)

Joe Hart, Pablo Zabaleta, Nicolás Otamendi, Martín Demichelis, Aleksandar Kolarov, Kevin De Bruyne, Fernando, Fabian Delph, David Silva, Kelechi Iheanacho, Sergio Agüero

Crystal Palace line-up (4-5-1)

Wayne Hennessey, Joel Ward, Scott Dann, Damien Delaney, Pape Souaré, Wilfried Zaha, James McArthur, Yohan Cabaye, Joe Ledley, Jason Puncheon, Connor Wickham