Manchester City 5-0 Crystal Palace: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 6 May 2017
Result
Manchester City 5-0 Crystal Palace
Premier League · Saturday 6 May 2017, 11:30 UTC · half-time 1-0
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Manchester City 5-0 Crystal Palace: match report
Manchester City defeated Crystal Palace 5-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 6 May 2017. It was 1-0 at half-time.
David Silva opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Manchester City's goals came from David Silva (2'), Vincent Kompany (49'), Kevin De Bruyne (59'), Raheem Sterling (82') and Nicolás Otamendi (90+2'). Crystal Palace did not score.
Discipline: Manchester City received 1 yellow card; Crystal Palace received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Manchester City were 4th on 66 points from 34 and Crystal Palace 16th on 38 points from 35. Manchester City went on to finish that season 3rd with 78 points, and Crystal Palace 14th with 41.
Manchester City lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and Crystal Palace in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Kevin De Bruyne of Manchester City (10.0), ahead of Nicolás Otamendi (8.5).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 8 Manchester City wins, 1 draw and 0 for Crystal Palace.
Key events
- 2'Goal · David Silva
- 4'Yellow card · M. Kelly
- 33'Yellow card · Vincent Kompany
- 49'Goal · Vincent Kompany
- 52'Yellow card · Luka Milivojevic
- 59'Goal · Kevin De Bruyne
- 82'Goal · Raheem Sterling
- 90+2'Yellow card · Damien Delaney
- 90+2'Goal · Nicolás Otamendi
Head-to-head
Team news
Manchester City line-up (4-1-4-1)
Willy Caballero, Fernandinho, Vincent Kompany, Nicolás Otamendi, Gaël Clichy, Yaya Touré, Leroy Sané, Kevin De Bruyne, David Silva, Raheem Sterling, Gabriel Jesus
Crystal Palace line-up (4-3-3)
Wayne Hennessey, Joel Ward, Martin Kelly, Jeffrey Schlupp, Patrick van Aanholt, James McArthur, Luka Milivojevic, Jason Puncheon, Wilfried Zaha, Christian Benteke, Andros Townsend