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7¹ An outswinging corner was turned into the arms of the Crystal Palace 'keeper by MESSI. 12¹ DONNARUMMA managed to block a powerful effort. 16¹ A useful ball from FRIMPONG on the left bobbled toward FODEN who scuffed his effort over. 18¹ MUSIALA was put clear by FRIMPONG and he beat the Crystal Palace 'keeper but thrust his shot just beyond the far post. 19¹ FODEN's shot beat VICARIO but rebounded off the Crystal Palace woodwork. 20¹ GOAL!! A cross from SCHLOTTERBECK was nodded away by DAVIES only for RAFAEL LEÃO to volley the ball back into the box for DANI OLMO to force over the line. (1-0 Crystal Palace) 21¹ A penalty box scramble resulted in MUSIALA tapping a low shot over. 23¹ A pin-point pass was collected by FODEN and his looping shot went narrowly over. 26¹ A header by FODEN at the far post was comfortably collected by the 'keeper. 36¹ A poor strike from FODEN bounced agonisingly wide. 40¹ A drive from DANI OLMO seemed a certain goal but the 'keeper managed to force the ball away. 41¹ DANI OLMO charged through the Manchester City defence but shot straight at the Manchester City 'keeper. 44¹ GOAL!! A wonderful shot from DE BRUYNE was pushed away by VICARIO only as far as MESSI who blasted the ball past the stranded VICARIO. (1-1) 2² A corner found BRAHIM who flicked an effort inches over. 8² A cross from DE BRUYNE left FODEN in plenty of space but he fluffed his shot. 13² GOAL!! A FRIMPONG run down the left resulted in a nice cross for FODEN to fire in. (2-1 Manchester City) 17² A strike from FODEN held no problem for the 'keeper. 19² RÚBEN DIAS headed over. 25² GOAL!! A deep cross from TCHOUAMÉNI on the left was nodded home by VLAHOVIC on the edge of the box. (2-2) 27² FODEN brought the ball away from BRAHIM and stabbed a tame shot past the post. 29² DANI OLMO headed the ball wide from the edge of the box. 45² GOAL!! Manchester City's HAALAND beat four defenders before firing just inside the Crystal Palace 'keeper's far post. (3-2 Manchester City)

Manchester City   League position: 1 Home league form: XWXL Overall league form: XXXOWWXL Formation: 3-1-3-3

Line-ups Gianluigi DONNARUMMA 7  1 6½ Guglielmo VICARIO Luka MODRIC 8½ 2 7  Nico SCHLOTTERBECK Jeremie FRIMPONG 6½ 3 7  DANILO Luiz (c)Phil FODEN 7½ 4 7  KIM Min-jae(c) Kevin DE BRUYNE 6½ 5 7½ Eduardo CAMAVINGA RODRI 8  6 6½ Sandro TONALI RÚBEN Santos DIAS 7  7 6½ BRAHIM Abdelkader (f)Alphonso DAVIES 6½ 8 7  Aurélien TCHOUAMÉNI Jamal MUSIALA 6½ 9 6½ DANI OLMO (p)Erling HAALAND 6½ 10 6½ Dusan VLAHOVIC(p) Lionel MESSI 7½ 11 6½ RAFAEL Alexandre LEÃO(f) Lee Avramovic Manager Sam Ashby JOÃO Pedro CANCELO    12    LUCAS Lopes BERALDO EDERSON Santana    13    Mile SVILAR GONÇALO Bernardino INÁCIO    14    Takefusa KUBO Tyler DIBLING    15    Henrikh MKHITARYAN GONÇALO Matias RAMOS    16    Artem DOVBYK

Crystal Palace   League position: 8 Away league form: LLXW Overall league form: XWLXLLLX Formation: 3-5-2

Statistics

Manchester City 3 Crystal Palace 2 (Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 55,024, Stadium: Etihad Stadium, Referee: Mike Dean 7½) Messi 44¹, Foden 13², Haaland 45² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Dani Olmo 20¹, Vlahovic 25²             5 8 9 11 6 4 10 8 10 4 20 12 6 6 48% 52% ¶ Man of the match: Luka Modric ¶