In this week 29 match on the 14th of March, Manchester City and Crystal Palace will play a match in London in a meeting of these two extremely mismatched Premier League teams. Weather on match day is looking like a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 7 degrees, making for an unpleasant day. 11th placed Crystal Palace is fresh off their 2-0 shutout win against Wolverhampton Wanderers. Jean-Philippe Mateta struck first for Crystal Palace in the 19th minute, then Wilfried Zaha added another in the 34th minute on a penalty At the end of 90 a dissapointed Wolverhampton Wanderers couldn’t manage to score, and Crystal Palace took the shutout win. Crystal Palace is looking for direction having earned 13 points in their last 10 matches, while manchester City sits at 1st place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 0-0 scoreless draw against Sporting CP. Neither Manchester City nor Sporting CP could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 14 and 6 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a scoreless draw,. Manchester City is on a hot streak lately, with only 1 loss in their last 10 matches.
In their last match together, in Etihad Stadium, Crystal Palace won by a score of 2 to 0. Wilfried Zaha struck first for Crystal Palace in the 6th minute, then Conor Gallagher added another in the 88th minute on a feed from Michael Olise In the end, Manchester City couldn’t muster any offence and Crystal Palace ran away with the shutout win.
Manchester City is fortunate enough to have Riyad Mahrez in top form. In the last five matches the midfielder has scored four goals. Wilfried Zaha has been the most prolific scorer on Crystal Palace in the last 5 matches with 3 goals
Crystal Palace will be without Joel Ward and Nathan Ferguson, while Josep Guardiola i Sala’s Manchester City squad will be without Benjamin Mendy, Rúben Dias, Nathan Aké and Cole Palmer.