Player Ratings Manchester City vs Crystal Palace – Goals, Highlights; The Premier League title race is heating up

The Premier League title battle is not over yet.

Manchester City have cut Arsenal’s lead at the top of the table to two points after beating Crystal Palace 3-0 at the Etihad Stadium on Tuesday.

With two rounds of the season to go, this means Arsenal will have to wait at least another week to become champions.

Mikel Arteta’s side play relegated Burnley on Monday and a win would require City to beat Bournemouth 24 hours later to take the title race to the final day of the season.

City will play Chelsea in the FA Cup final before that and Pep Guardiola appeared to have the showdown at Wembley in mind by making six changes to his team. But even without Erling Haaland, Rayan Cherki and Jeremy Doku in his starting line-up, City won comfortably.

Phil Foden – who has made a rare start in recent months – provided assists for both of City’s first-half goals.

His back heel created an opening for Antoine Semenyo to open the scoring after 32 minutes and he set up Omar Marmoush for City’s second goal eight minutes later.

Savinho added a third in the 84th.

Player ratings of Manchester City vs Crystal Palace

Manchester City: Gianluigi Donnarumma (7.0/10), Marc Guéhi (7.2/10), Abdukodir Khusanov (7.5/10), Joško Gvardiol (7.6/10), Rayan Aït-Nouri (6.8/10), Matheus Nunes (7.0/10), Bernardo Silva (6.9/10), Philho Savinho (8/8), Savinho (8/10). (8.2/10), Antoine Semenyo (8.1/10), Omar Marmoush (7.9/10)

subtitles: Rayan Cherki (7.5/10), Nathan Aké (6.5/10), Jérémy Doku (6.2/10), John Stones (6.0/10), Mateo Kovačić (6.1/10)

Crystal Palace: Dean Henderson (6.4/10), Maxence Lacroix (6.1/10), Chris Richards (6.3/10), Jaydee Canvot (6.0/10), Daniel Muñoz (6.2/10), Tyrick Mitchell (5.8/10), Jefferson Lerma (6.5/10), Will Hughes (5.9/10), Brennan Johnson (6.1/10), Yéremy Pino (6.0/10), Jean-Philippe Mateta (5.7/10)

subtitles: Jørgen Strand Larsen (6.2/10), Ismaïla Sarr (6.4/10), Adam Wharton (6.1/10), Daichi Kamada (5.6/10), Nathaniel Clyne (5.9/10)

(With input from Agencies and Opta)

Published on May 14, 2026