Manchester City 5-0 Crystal Palace: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 23 September 2017

Result

Manchester City 5-0 Crystal Palace

Premier League · Saturday 23 September 2017, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Manchester City 5-0 Crystal Palace: match report

Manchester City beat Crystal Palace 5-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 23 September 2017. The half-time score was 1-0.

Leroy Sané opened the scoring in the 44th minute. Manchester City's goals came from Leroy Sané (44'), Raheem Sterling (51'), Raheem Sterling (59'), Sergio Agüero (79') and Fabian Delph (89'). Crystal Palace did not score.

Discipline: Manchester City received 3 yellow cards; Crystal Palace received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Manchester City were 1st on 13 points from 5 and Crystal Palace 20th on 0 points from 5. Manchester City went on to finish that season 1st with 100 points, and Crystal Palace 11th with 44.

Manchester City lined up in a 4-3-3 and Crystal Palace in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Leroy Sané of Manchester City (9.6), ahead of David Silva (8.6).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 9 Manchester City wins, 1 draw and 0 for Crystal Palace.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 25'Yellow card · Benjamin MendyManchester City
  • 44'Goal · Leroy SanéManchester City · 1-0
  • 51'Goal · Raheem SterlingManchester City · 2-0
  • 56'Yellow card · DaniloManchester City
  • 59'Goal · Raheem SterlingManchester City · 3-0
  • 75'Yellow card · Leroy SanéManchester City
  • 76'Yellow card · Jeffrey SchluppCrystal Palace
  • 79'Goal · Sergio AgüeroManchester City · 4-0
  • 89'Goal · Fabian DelphManchester City · 5-0

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Manchester City 9, draws 1, Crystal Palace 0.

Team news

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

Ederson, Kyle Walker, John Stones, Nicolás Otamendi, Benjamin Mendy, Kevin De Bruyne, Fernandinho, David Silva, Leroy Sané, Sergio Agüero, Raheem Sterling

Crystal Palace line-up (4-2-3-1)

Wayne Hennessey, Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Scott Dann, Mamadou Sakho, Patrick van Aanholt, Luka Milivojevic, Yohan Cabaye, Andros Townsend, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Jeffrey Schlupp, Christian Benteke