Sign up now!!!<\/a><\/p>\nPep Guardiola\u2019s men braced for a tough task at Selhurst Park against high-flying Palace and had to withstand pressure from the home side.<\/p>\n
But they were clinical, with two goals from the ruthless Erling Haaland and one from Phil Foden.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a really tough place to come,\u201d City boss Guardiola told Sky Sports. \u201cWhen you lose the ball, they attack incredibly well but we were patient.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were lucky when they hit the post from (Adam) Wharton but really pleased for the performance and victory to grow our mentality.\u201d <\/p>\n
He added: \u201cErling is a forward to score the goals but in the second half he keeps the ball. He was able to contain situations. He helped us be together. In the second half he was outstanding.\u201d <\/p>\n
Oliver Glasner\u2019s Palace, who beat City in last season\u2019s FA Cup final, squandered their chances in the first half, with Yeremy Pino hitting the bar when he had only goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma to beat.<\/p>\n
Haaland was a largely peripheral figure but came alive shortly before half-time, heading a pinpoint Matheus Nunes cross across Palace goalkeeper Dean Henderson to give City the lead.<\/p>\n
Palace again started the second half brightly and Wharton cracked a low drive against the base of the post.<\/p>\n
But they paid the price for their wayward finishing when Foden drilled expertly into the bottom corner after a powerful run from Rayan Cherki to double the visitors\u2019 lead.<\/p>\n
City added gloss to the scoreline when Haaland thundered a penalty past Henderson after Savinho was taken down by the goalkeeper following a surging run late in the game.<\/p>\n
Manchester City’s Erling Haaland scored a brace against Crystal Palace.Source: AP<\/p>\n
Villa started their match at the London Stadium as the form team in the league, with nine wins in 10 matches.<\/p>\n
The visitors fell behind twice, to Mateus Fernandes\u2019 goal after just 29 seconds and a poacher\u2019s strike from Jarrod Bowen.<\/p>\n
But a Konstantinos Mavropanos own goal cancelled out the opener and Morgan Rogers hauled Villa level at 2-2, before the England midfielder capped a sparkling performance with a stunning shot from outside the box.<\/p>\n
The victory leaves Unai Emery\u2019s men just three points behind Arsenal, while West Ham remain stuck in the relegation zone.<\/p>\n
It is an astonishing turnaround for Villa, who did not score a single Premier League goal in their first four matches of the season.<\/p>\n
Two goals from Callum Hudson-Odoi and a screamer from Ibrahim Sangare gave Forest a comfortable victory over troubled Spurs and lifted Sean Dyche\u2019s Forest five points above the drop zone.<\/p>\n
Under-fire Tottenham manager Thomas Frank, who replaced Australian Ange Postecoglou, insisted he would be given time to solve their issues.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t see why not. I think it\u2019s pretty evident that if no one gets the time, no one can turn this around. This is not a quick fix,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Tottenham manager Thomas Frank is already under serious pressure.Source: AFP<\/p>\n
Spurs goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario was slammed by former England player Dean Ashton for a poor error on Hudson-Odoi\u2019s second goal, just after half-time. The Italian gloveman misjudged what was intended as a cross from Hudson-Odoi, and it looped over his head and found the net at the far post.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just terrible goalkeeping. It\u2019s not as if it\u2019s been whipped right to the top corner,\u201d Ashton said on talkSPORT.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just gone in the middle of the goal over the top of Vicario, who\u2019s flapped a hand at it. He missed it, misjudged the flight of it.<\/p>\n
\u201cReally, really poor goalkeeping. Another gift for Forest, who have been on top at the start of the second half.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ashton continued a searing bake by branding Vicario\u2019s error unforgivable at Premier League level. He said that Tottenham were stuck with the keeper as first choice.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t really think you can argue too much about shot stopping. I think he\u2019s outstanding in that aspect,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut there are other aspects including playing out today. Obviously it\u2019s silly mistakes, being maybe weak from set plays and crosses at times as well in his Tottenham career.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe problem is they\u2019ve got (Antonin) Kinsky on the bench, who is still a very young goalkeeper. It\u2019s not as if they\u2019ve got a real senior goalkeeper that they could genuinely turn to, to maybe just take the sting out of the situation for Vicario.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no real answer as to why you would make such a simple mistake at this level. You just can\u2019t. That\u2019s like missing a tapping from six yards. It\u2019s not really forgivable at this level.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tottenham goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario concedes a goal he\u2019ll want to forget against Nottingham Forest.Source: AFP<\/p>\n
Newcastle are languishing in 12th place in the table after sinking to a 1-0 defeat at the home of local rivals Sunderland, courtesy of Woltemade\u2019s blunder in the opening minutes of the second half.<\/p>\n
The two teams were facing each other for the first time in the Premier League for nearly a decade after the Black Cats\u2019 recent return to the top division.<\/p>\n
Dominic Calvert-Lewin extended his hot streak as Leeds rescued a 1-1 draw at Brentford.<\/p>\n
Jordan Henderson bagged his first goal for Brentford in the 70th minute, but Calvert-Lewin notched his fourth goal in his last four games with an 82nd minute header.<\/p>\n
Leeds sit three points above the relegation zone, while Brentford are seven points ahead of the bottom three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City thumped Crystal Palace 3-0 on Sunday (Monday AEDT) to move back to within two points of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[22261,64,63,689,192081,50014,76641,192080,192078,53043,596,6246,24270,192076,53085,1613,48081,673,677,48085,192083,92962,1614,192077,91339,192074,192071,104864,141448,2643,192079,85,192073,192075,192082,2639,12046,192072],"class_list":["post-348077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-arne-slot","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-blowtorch-turns","tag-city-boss","tag-comfortable-victory","tag-dean-ashton","tag-dismal-defeat","tag-dominic-calvert-lewin","tag-football","tag-football-news","tag-home-side","tag-italian-gloveman","tag-jordan-henderson","tag-liverpool","tag-mohamed-salah","tag-new-south-wales","tag-oceania","tag-oliver-glasner","tag-peripheral-figure","tag-phil-foden","tag-premier-league","tag-premier-league-goals","tag-pressure-back","tag-real-answer","tag-real-senior-goalkeeper","tag-relegation-zone","tag-sean-dyche","tag-sky-sports","tag-sparkling-performance","tag-sports","tag-spurs-goalkeeper","tag-surprise-title-charge","tag-terrible-goalkeeping","tag-thomas-h-frank","tag-west-ham-united-football-club","tag-young-goalkeeper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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