Manchester City 5-2 Crystal Palace: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 12 April 2025
Result
Manchester City 5-2 Crystal Palace
Premier League · Saturday 12 April 2025, 11:30 UTC · half-time 2-2
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Manchester City 5-2 Crystal Palace: match report
Manchester City beat Crystal Palace 5-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 12 April 2025. The half-time score was 2-2.
Eberechi Eze opened the scoring in the 8th minute. Manchester City's goals came from Kevin De Bruyne (33'), Omar Marmoush (36'), Mateo Kovacic (47'), James McAtee (56') and Nico O'Reilly (79'). Crystal Palace scored through Eberechi Eze (8') and Chris Richards (21').
Discipline: Manchester City received 2 yellow cards; Crystal Palace received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Manchester City were 6th on 52 points from 31 and Crystal Palace 11th on 43 points from 30. Manchester City went on to finish that season 3rd with 71 points, and Crystal Palace 12th with 53.
Manchester City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Crystal Palace in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Kevin De Bruyne of Manchester City (8.8), ahead of Mateo Kovacic (8.0).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Manchester City wins, 4 draws and 1 for Crystal Palace.
Key events
- 8'Goal · Eberechi Eze
- 21'Goal · Chris Richards
- 31'Yellow card · Daichi Kamada
- 33'Goal · Kevin De Bruyne
- 36'Goal · Omar Marmoush
- 40'Yellow card · Nico González
- 47'Goal · Mateo Kovacic
- 54'Yellow card · Maxence Lacroix
- 56'Goal · James McAtee
- 68'Yellow card · James McAtee
- 79'Goal · Nico O'Reilly
- 90+4'Yellow card · Jefferson Lerma
Head-to-head
Team news
Manchester City line-up (4-2-3-1)
Ederson, Rico Lewis, Rúben Dias, Josko Gvardiol, Nico O'Reilly, Mateo Kovacic, Nico González, James McAtee, İlkay Gündoğan, Omar Marmoush, Kevin De Bruyne
Crystal Palace line-up (3-4-2-1)
Dean Henderson, Chris Richards, Maxence Lacroix, Jefferson Lerma, Daniel Muñoz, Adam Wharton, Daichi Kamada, Tyrick Mitchell, Ismaïla Sarr, Eberechi Eze, Jean-Philippe Mateta