Manchester City drops more points after draw with Crystal Palace

Manchester Metropolis’s Premier League title protection took one other blow after drawing with Crystal Palace 2-2 on Saturday.

4-time defending champion Metropolis ended a seven-game winless run on Wednesday by beating Nottingham Forest, however dropped extra factors with the draw at Selhurst Park.

It may have been worse for Metropolis as Palace led twice.

Pep Guardiola’s crew is fourth within the standings and eight factors behind chief Liverpool, which has a recreation in hand after its derby with Everton was postponed due to Storm Darragh.

Nottingham Forest was fifth after beautiful Manchester United 3-2 at Outdated Trafford for the primary time in 30 years.

Aston Villa beat last-placed Southampton 1-0, and Brentford gained in opposition to Newcastle 4-2.

A win would have lifted Metropolis to second and reduce the hole to Liverpool to 6 factors, nevertheless it was behind after 4 minutes when Daniel Munoz scored for Palace.

Erling Haaland leveled by halftime with a header, however Maxence Lacroix restored Palace’s lead within the 56th.

Rico Lewis equalized once more for Metropolis within the 68th and was despatched off within the 84th for a second yellow card.

“I like all the pieces about my crew, once we’re within the state of affairs we’re in,” Guardiola mentioned. “We’ve loads of issues inside the squad. We fought unbelievable, we gave all the pieces, we take the purpose.

“The season began tough and can all season be tough. We’ve to outlive this season in each recreation, attempt to take factors to win video games and transfer ahead.”

Honeymoon over

Ruben Amorim is getting an concept of simply how huge a job he has on his fingers at Manchester United after a second straight loss.

Goalkeeper Andre Onana’s second-half blunder in opposition to Forest proved expensive. At 1-1, two minutes after the break, Onana misjudged Morgan Gibbs-White’s tame shot from outdoors the field. He dived the fallacious means and watched the ball roll in.

For Amorim, who took over final month after leaving Portuguese champion Sporting Lisbon, it was the primary residence league match he has misplaced since February 2023.

“It is a lengthy journey … and we’re bettering in some features,” mentioned Amorim, who tasted his first defeat because the United supervisor on Wednesday, a 2-0 to Arsenal.

Forest led via Nikola Milenkovic’s header within the second minute, and Rasmus Hojlund equalized for United.

After Onana’s error, Chris Wooden made it 3-1 to Forest. Bruno Fernandes pulled a objective again for the house crew.

Villa wins

After an eight-game winless run, Villa has back-to-back victories and is simply two factors behind Metropolis.

Jhon Duran’s objective within the twenty fourth held up for all three factors in opposition to Southampton at Villa Park and adopted Wednesday’s win in opposition to Brentford.

Duran has been a brilliant sub for Villa however scored on his first league begin this season. He has 9 objectives in all competitions, 5 of them in its place.

Southampton was backside of the standings and eight factors adrift of security.

Newcastle routed

Newcastle has gone 4 video games and not using a win after being routed by Brentford 4-2.

In an exciting first half at Gtech Group Stadium, Bryan Mbeumo opened the scoring for the house crew earlier than Alexander Isak equalized for Newcastle.

Yoane Wissa made it 2-1 to Brentford, however Harvey Barnes leveled once more.

Nathan Collins put Brentford forward once more 11 minutes into the second half, and Kevin Schade ensured Newcastle was crushed by making it 4-2 within the ninetieth.

Derby postponed

The Merseyside derby will likely be rescheduled due to Storm Darragh. A brand new date has not been decided.

Everton introduced the sport was off for security causes round 4 hours earlier than kickoff. There have been extreme wind warnings. Components of Wales have been experiencing wind gusts of greater than 145 kph (90 mph).

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