Manchester City ended its great week with an away win against Crystal Palace (0-3), including a brace from Norwegian Erling Haaland, in a sixteenth matchday of the Premier League in which Aston Villa established itself in third place after returning to West Ham (2-3).
At Selhurst Park, Pep Guardiola’s men, who attacked the Santiago Bernabéu on Wednesday (1-2), experienced a first half in which the locals took the lead after a quarter of an hour in an action in which the Spaniard Yeremy Pino crashed a ball against the crossbar and in which they had several chances through the boots of Ismaïla Sarr.
It was Haaland who, in the 41st minute, when he touched the first ball in the penalty area, came to the aid of the “Citizens” by heading a cross from Matheus Nunes into the net. Phil Foden took the lead in the 69th minute and the Scandinavian striker equalized again in the 88th minute.
This means that City has secured its fourth league win in a row and is in second place with 34 points, just two less than leaders Arsenal and one more than Aston Villa, who also did not fail against West Ham this Sunday and have now achieved six wins in a row in the Premier.
Mateus Fernandes gave the Hammers the lead after 29 seconds, but an own goal from Konstantinos Mavropanos equalized the contest in the 9th minute. Jarrod Bowen gave the home team the lead again in the 24th minute, but they were one down at half-time.
However, Unai Emery’s team reacted and equalized the duel again with a goal in the 50th minute from Morgan Rogers, who was also responsible for the “bad guys” comeback. After Bowen had a West Ham goal disallowed, Rogers completed his brace to salvage the three points for Aston Villa, who now have 33 points.
In addition, Nottingham Forest surprised Tottenham (3-0) with two goals from Callum Hudson-Odoi and one from Ibrahim Sangaré and avoided relegation, thereby dashing the hopes of the “Spurs” of getting closer to Europe, to which Sunderland is close after the victory over Newcastle (1-0).
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