Four Records From Manchester City’s 4-2 Demolition Of Crystal Palace

Premier League defending champions Manchester City preserved their 38-match unbeaten run as they stormed to a 4-2 victory over Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park, a victory that was inspired by a brace from Kevin De Bruyne.

It was far from plain sailing for a shaky City in the first half in south London, with a John Stones error allowing Jean-Philippe Mateta to put Palace ahead and further sloppy passes from Rodri leading to Jordan Ayew hitting the bar and Stefan Ortega having to pull off a Cruyff turn in his own six-yard box to prevent Mateta adding another.

However, De Bruyne curled in a brilliant equaliser, and two minutes into the second half Rico Lewis gave City the lead their possession and chance creation in that first 45 warranted.

Like De Bruyne, Erling Haaland was recalled to City’s starting XI on Saturday and, after a quiet first half in which he had just seven touches, the striker will have been pleased to tuck in a cross from the Belgian to end his five-game run without a goal for club and country. De Bruyne then lashed in his milestone 100th strike from a Rodri lay-off to put City into cruise control.

Though Odsonne Edouard’s late finish – after Ruben Dias had cleared another of his efforts off the line minutes earlier – gave the visitors a trickier final few minutes than they were expecting, but it was to no avail.

But with De Bruyne and Haaland scoring and Phil Foden given the afternoon off after his hat-trick on Thursday, City’s key players look primed for their huge Champions League quarter-final away day at Real Madrid on Tuesday.

Here are four Records to note as City defeated Crystal Palace 4-2 in the Premier League:

• 14 – Only Cole Palmer (17) and Darwin Núñez (15) have been involved in more goals in all competitions in 2024 (among Premier League players) than Kevin De Bruyne (14 – 3 goals, 11 assists).

• 2 – Having also scored against Crystal Palace in the reverse fixture in December, Rico Lewis is just the second teenager to score home and away against a specific opponent in a Premier League season for Manchester City after Kelechi Iheanacho vs Swansea in 2015-16.

• 17 – Kevin De Bruyne has assisted 17 of Erling Haaland’s goals for Manchester City; the most from one Premier League player to another since the start of last season (all competitions).

• 100 – Kevin De Bruyne has now reached 100 goals in all competitions for Manchester City, making him the 3rd best goalscorer in the club’s history.

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