Crystal Palace 1-2 Manchester City: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 18 September 2004

Result

Crystal Palace 1-2 Manchester City

Premier League · Saturday 18 September 2004, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Crystal Palace 1-2 Manchester City: match report

Crystal Palace were beaten by Manchester City 1-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 18 September 2004. It was 0-0 at half-time.

Nicolas Anelka opened the scoring in the 55th minute. Crystal Palace's goal came from Andy Johnson (77', penalty). Manchester City scored through Nicolas Anelka (55') and Nicolas Anelka (64', penalty).

Discipline: Crystal Palace received 2 yellow cards; Manchester City received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Crystal Palace were 20th on 1 point from 5 and Manchester City 13th on 4 points from 5. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 18th with 33 points, and Manchester City 8th with 52.

Going into the match Crystal Palace's last five read L-L-L-L-D and Manchester City's L-W-L-L-D.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 16'Yellow card · Antoine SibierskiManchester City
  • 35'Yellow card · Fitz HallCrystal Palace
  • 43'Yellow card · Sylvain DistinManchester City
  • 55'Goal · Nicolas AnelkaManchester City · 0-1
  • 58'Yellow card · Michael HughesCrystal Palace
  • 64'Penalty goal · Nicolas AnelkaManchester City · 0-2
  • 77'Penalty goal · Andy JohnsonCrystal Palace · 1-2

Team news

Manchester City line-up

Ben Thatcher, Sylvain Distin, Danny Mills, Richard Dunne, Claudio Reyna, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Jon Macken, Nicolas Anelka, David James, Antoine Sibierski, Joey Barton