Crystal Palace 0-1 Man City: Haaland's penalty bring the gap back to 2 points!

Game is over and the final score is Crystal Palace 0-1 Man City. Here is the match report.

Match Report

It's advantage Manchester City in the Premier League title race after Erling Haaland's 28th Premier League goal of the season earned Pep Guardiola's title-chasers a 1-0 away win at Selhurst Park.

Haaland spurned the best chance of the first-half as the Premier League's top goalscorer latched onto Bernardo Silva's driven cross but skied his effort over the bar.

Palace for all their defensive brilliance looked short of ideas upfront and failed to produce a shot on target in the opening half, despite threatening with some positive play.

Julian Alvarez's introduction in the second-half saw the visitors switch to a 4-4-2 and he nearly made an instant impact after creating space in the Palace box but in similar fashion to Haaland blasted his shot over the bar.

The hosts were stubborn in defence and perhaps deserved at least a point but a momentary lapse in concentration cost them dearly as Michael Olise clattered into Ilkay Gundogan inside the box.

Haaland stayed calm to send Vicente Guaita the wrong way from the spot and finally put the visitors in control.

Palace rang the attacking changes with Eberechi Eze and Odsonne Edouard thrown on from the bench but their impact was minimal as the reigning Premier League champions tightened up and restriced space in their own half.

Match Events

0' The match is about to start!

2' Rodri's shot stopped

4' Grealish's shot wide out

28' Haaland's shot over the bar

30' Yellow Card! Milivojevic booked

56' Foden's free kick stopped

59' Yellow Card! Ruben Dias booked

60' Alvarez's shot over the bar

68' Alvarez's long shot stopped

78' Penalty Goal! Crystal Palace 0-1 Man City (Haaland)

Line-ups

Crystal Palace XI: Guaita, Clyne, Milivojevic, Jordan Ayew, Zaha, Schlupp, Andersen, Guehi, Albert Sambi Lokonga, Michael Olise, Tyrick Mitchell

Subs: Tomkins, Ward, Riedewald, Odsonne Edouard, Jean-Philippe Mateta, Eberechi Eze, Chris Richards, Naouirou Ahamada, Joe Whitworth

Man City XI: Gundogan, Ake, Stones, Ederson, Grealish, Ruben Dias, Bernardo, Akanji, Rodri, Haaland, Foden

Subs: Walker, De Bruyne, Stefan Ortega, Mahrez, Laporte, Kalvin Phillips, Cole Palmer, Julián Álvarez, Rico Lewis