Manchester City 1-0 Crystal Palace: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 28 December 2013

Result

Manchester City 1-0 Crystal Palace

Premier League · Saturday 28 December 2013, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Manchester City 1-0 Crystal Palace: match report

Manchester City beat Crystal Palace 1-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 28 December 2013. The half-time score was 0-0.

The only goal came from Edin Dzeko of Manchester City in the 66th minute.

Discipline: Manchester City received 1 yellow card; Crystal Palace received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Manchester City were 2nd on 37 points from 18 and Crystal Palace 18th on 16 points from 18. Manchester City went on to finish that season 1st with 84 points, and Crystal Palace 12th with 44.

Manchester City lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Crystal Palace in a 4-4-1-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Manchester City wins, 0 draws and 0 for Crystal Palace.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 66'Goal · Edin DzekoManchester City · 1-0
  • 81'Yellow card · Damien DelaneyCrystal Palace
  • 89'Yellow card · David SilvaManchester City

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Manchester City 2, draws 0, Crystal Palace 0.

Team news

Manchester City line-up (4-2-3-1)

Joe Hart, Germán Gonzalo Cabrera, Vincent Kompany, Matija Nastasić, Gaël Clichy, Javi García, Fernandinho, Jesús Navas, David Silva, James Milner, Edin Džeko

Crystal Palace expected line-up (4-4-1-1)

Julián Speroni, Damien Delaney, Mile Jedinak, Danny Gabbidon, Joel Ward, Barry Bannan, Yannick Bolasie, Marouane Chamakh, Cameron Jerome, Kagisho Evidence Dikgacoi