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| Event | Premier League 2024-25 | ||||||
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| Date | Saturday 12 April 2025 | ||||||
| Venue | Etihad Stadium, Manchester | ||||||
| Player of the Match |  Kevin De Bruyne | ||||||
| Referee |  Jarred Gillett | ||||||
| Attendance | 52,489 | ||||||
| Weather | 18 °C (64 °F) | ||||||
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Manchester City v Crystal Palace was a match which took place at the Emirates Stadium on Saturday 12 April 2025. The match was shown live on live on 
at 12:30pm BST.
Team News[]
Manchester City[]
Manchester City are still without Manuel Akanji, Nathan Ake, Erling Haaland, Rodri and John Stones.
However, manager Pep Guardiola has no new injury concerns to contend with.
Crystal Palace[]
Crystal Palace's Marc Guehi and Eddie Nketiah are suspended following their red cards against Brighton last weekend.
Defenders Maxence Lacroix and Chris Richards have been passed fit, but Chadi Riad and Cheick Doucoure remain long-term absentees.
Match facts[]
Head-to-head[]
- Manchester City's only defeat in their last 12 games against Crystal Palace was a 2-0 loss at the Etihad Stadium in October 2021.
- Having lost their first six Premier League matches at the Etihad Stadium, Palace have been beaten in only two of their last six top-flight matches away to City (W2, D2).
- The Eagles have either failed to score (five) or scored exactly twice (six) in their last 11 league matches with Man City.
Manchester City[]
- Manchester City have won just three of their last eight league games (D2, L3).
- They have kept a clean sheet in successive league games for the first time since May 2024.
- Their draw with Manchester United ended a run of 14 straight Premier League wins in the month of April.
- City have scored just five goals in their last six league matches, and have failed to score in consecutive away league matches for the first time since December 2020.
- The injured Erling Haaland is the only player to reach double figures for league goals this season (21), with Phil Foden next on seven.
- Manchester City's first six league games of 2025 produced 29 goals (F20, A9) at an average of 4.8 per game. However, their last six have seen a total of just 10 goals (F5, A5), with Pep Guardiola's side failing to score on three occasions in that run.
- All five of Omar Marmoush's league goals have come at the Etihad.
Crystal Palace[]
- Only league leaders Liverpool (23) have earned more points over their last 10 top-flight games than Crystal Palace's 22 (W7, D1, L2).
- The Eagles have won four and drawn one of their last five league matches and have lost only three of their last 19 top-flight games.
- They are on a club record run of 10 away league matches without defeat (W6, D4), dating back to a loss at Nottingham Forest in October.
- Eberechi Eze's tally of eight league assists is as many as he had managed in his previous two top-flight seasons combined.
- Only Mohamed Salah (10) has scored more league goals in 2025 than Jean-Philippe Mateta's nine.
Match Report[]
Six days after being condemned for their performance in the derby stalemate at Old Trafford, Manchester City roared back from two goals down to beat Crystal Palace in a thrilling encounter at Etihad Stadium.
After their defence had been badly exposed for Eberechi Eze and Chris Richards to put the visitors into a comfortable lead, City hit back after Palace had a third goal ruled out by a close call from the new semi-automated offside technology.
Outgoing City skipper Kevin de Bruyne was at the centre of the astounding reversal of fortunes.
First De Bruyne levelled as he deceived Palace goalkeeper Dean Henderson with a superb 33rd-minute free-kick. Omar Marmoush levelled before the break with his seventh goal for City, and then Mateo Kovacic drove De Bruyne's lay-off into the bottom corner a minute into the second half.
James McAtee finally found the target after wasting a couple of excellent chances on his first Premier League start, dashing on to Ederson's punt downfield before rounding Henderson and applying the finish. Nico O'Reilly's deflected effort completed the scoring as City hit five goals in a home Premier League game for the first time this season.
It was a thrilling way to end an uncharacteristic run of six City games which had produced a total of 10 goals.
More importantly, it took them back into fourth spot in the Premier League and applied the pressure on Chelsea and Newcastle in the scrap for Champions League qualification.
At the most, De Bruyne will lead City into battle three more times in this arena.
Over the past decade he has produced so many sublime moments and provided memories that will last a lifetime.
But it had been a while since he had done anything significant, and when City's form slumped a third of the way through the season, De Bruyne could do nothing to arrest the slide.
On this occasion, he simply was not willing to let the day end badly.
Questions might be asked of the wall Dean Henderson constructed for De Bruyne's free-kick. Still, it takes high-level ability to send it into the net off the inside of the post. The margin for error was non-existent.
The flaw in data that allocates assists means Ilkay Gundogan is credited with the assist for Marmoush's equaliser. But that is only because the German midfielder could not get a proper connection on De Bruyne's knock-back, which bounced through to Marmoush to crash home from close range.
De Bruyne definitely provided the assist for Kovacic to put the home side ahead a minute into the second half though.
With his back to goal inside the Palace box, the Belgian calmly controlled O'Reilly's cross before rolling the ball into Kovacic's path. It was not quite Pele to Carlos Alberto from the 1970 World Cup final, but it needed the same ability to keep a clear head in a maelstrom - and the finish was equally emphatic.
Marmoush should have had another when De Bruyne rolled a low cross into his path after an hour. This time the Egyptian was denied by Henderson.
By the time Pep Guardiola took his captain off, offering him the warmest of hugs when he reached the touchline, City were clear and the three points were secure.
The standing ovation from the home support was fully deserved, as was the warm reception he received as the City players walked round the ground in response to their backing after the final whistle. Those supporters are running out of chances of acknowledge De Bruyne's genius.
There was a period, as his side were two goals up and cruising, Palace manager Oliver Glasner reacted to a chance that went begging by bouncing up and down before angrily remonstrating with his bench.
Glasner knew what City were capable of and must have feared the consequences. The Austrian was right to be wary.
Palace have improved markedly as this season has progressed and their biggest game this month is surely the FA Cup semi-final against Aston Villa on 26 April.
But Glasner will be concerned at the ease with which City found space to mount their comeback. Adam Wharton was outmanoeuvred in midfield and it got worse after half-time when Will Hughes was introduced to provide some support.
Palace had been so effective at the start of the contest too, as Daniel Munoz exploited space that City's defence allowed them. Eze looked a threat, quite apart from tapping home Ismaila Sarr's cross and when Richards took advantage of Ederson's failure to intercept a routine corner into his six-yard area.
On the day semi-automated offsides were used in the Premier League for the first time, the technology confirmed the on-pitch decision to rule Eze offside as he stroked an effortless shot into the bottom corner had been the right one.
It was a decision that proved to be pivotal.
Match[]
Details[]
| 12 April 2025 12:30 BST 18 °C (64 °F) live on |
Manchester City 
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5–2 |  Crystal Palace
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Etihad Stadium, Manchester Attendance: 52,489 Referee: Jarred Gillett |
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De Bruyne  33'Marmoush 36'Kovačić 47'McAtee 56'O'Reilly 79'
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Match Stats[]
| Manchester City | Crystal Palace |
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| Possession ball | |
| 69% | 31% |
| Shots | |
| 21 | 7 |
| Shots on target | |
| 9 | 3 |
| Corners | |
| 1 | 4 |
| Fouls | |
| 10 | 16 |
See also[]
External links[]
 Premier League 2024–25
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| Manchester City F.C. matches - 2024–25 |
| 2024–25 Premier League |
| Chelsea (a) · Arsenal (h) · Tottenham Hotspur (h) · Liverpool (a) · Manchester United (h) · Chelsea (h) · Arsenal (a) · Liverpool (h) · Nottingham Forest (a) · Manchester United (a) · Crystal Palace (h) · Aston Villa (h) · Bournemouth (h) · Fulham (a) |
| 2024–25 FA Cup |
| Salford City (h) · Leyton Orient (a) · Plymouth Argyle (h) · Bournemouth (a) · Nottingham Forest (n) |
| 2024–25 EFL Cup |
| Watford (h) · Tottenham Hotspur (a) |
| 2024–25 Champions League |
| Inter Milan (h) · Slovan Bratislava (a) · Sparta Prague (h) · Sporting CP (a) · Feyenoord (h) · Juventus (a) · Paris Saint-Germain (a) · Club Brugge (h) · Real Madrid (h) · Real Madrid (a) |
| 2025 FIFA Club World Cup |
| Wydad AC (n) · Al Ain (n) · Juventus (n) · Al Hilal (n) |
| 2024 FA Community Shield |
| Manchester United (n) |
| Crystal Palace F.C. matches - 2024–25 |
| 2024–25 Premier League |
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Ipswich Town (a) · Arsenal (h) · Manchester City (a) · Newcastle United (a) · Arsenal (a) · Liverpool (a) |
| 2024–25 FA Cup |
| Stockport County (h) · Doncaster Rovers (a) · Millwall (h) · Fulham (a) · Aston Villa (n) |
| 2024–25 EFL Cup |
| Norwich City (h) · Queens Park Rangers (a) · Aston Villa (a) · Arsenal (a) |
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