An Erling Haaland penalty deep into the second half gave Manchester City a 1-0 win at Crystal Palace
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The absence of Kyle Walker from the starting XI was the other side of Stones’ return. City had a rare fallow week before this game, albeit a portion of that time will have been taken up with managing the fallout from Walker’s recreational mishap on the team’s day off. Pep Guardiola had offered up a slightly jarring line in standing-by-your-guy before this game, with talk of the modern world, this kind of thing being the price we pay.
It took two minutes for Vicente Guaita to make his first sprawling save, as Rodri pounded a bouncing ball back at goal after a corner. Otherwise that week seemed to have left City a little cobwebbed. They were controlled and slightly lateral in the opening 20 minutes. They kept the ball, they controlled the tempo. Jack Grealish was urgent and ferrety on the left, with Bernardo Silva playing an advanced position ahead of Phil Foden on the right.
Just before the half hour Erling Haaland missed an easy chance in front of goal, trowelling the ball over the bar after fine work from Silva and Nathan Aké. Haaland has experienced a mild mid-season drying out. His goal record is already phenomenal. He could declare now and still end up ahead of the field come June. But he had also scored in just four of his last 13 games before this one.
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