Crystal Palace vs Manchester City Full Match 2025-26 • fullmatch

Crystal Palace vs Manchester City Full Match 2025-26.

Crystal Palace vs Manchester City Full Match Highlights — Crystal Palace vs Manchester City Full Match 2025-26

Crystal Palace vs Manchester City Full Match Replay.
Full Match & Highlights Premier League 2025-2026

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English Commentary
December 14, 2025

Owing to an unexpected injury blow, fans were not treated to a tantalising head-to-head between Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbappe at the Bernabeu, but the former stuck to his task and made the decisive contribution against a decimated Real defence. Following earlier strikes from Rodrygo and Nico O’Reilly, Haaland’s successful spot kick propelled Pep Guardiola’s side to just their second-ever Champions League win on Real Madrid’s turf, and their fourth on the spin across all competitions.

Taking down Leeds United, Fulham and most recently Sunderland in Premier League action, the Sky Blues have Arsenal firmly in their sights and sit just two points behind the Gunners in the top-flight table, but Mikel Arteta’s men will temporarily move out of sight with an anticipated win over Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday. A disastrous slip-up from Arsenal would open the door for Guardiola’s men to assume first place in the Premier League, where the esteemed Catalan coach is potentially just 90 minutes away from joining incredibly esteemed company indeed.

Man City have won 149 top-flight matches while scoring three or more goals under Guardiola, and only two managers have seen their teams prevail in 150+ Premier League games with at least a trio of goals – no prizes for guessing they are Sir Alex Ferguson (245) and Arsene Wenger (228).

Glasner could justifiably complain that his side should have posted a bigger margin of victory, though – they missed countless chances to add to their tally – and such profligacy may not hold up against the likes of Man City. However, the FA Cup holders now return home after three consecutive triumphant away days at Burnley, Fulham and most recently Shelbourne; the former two successes launched them into the coveted Champions League places in the Premier League table after 15 gameweeks.

The hosts have also been condemned to just the one home defeat in the current top-flight season, although it did come in their most recent battle with City’s arch-nemeses Manchester United, and only two of their seven Premier League contests at Selhurst Park in 2025-26 have ended in victory.

Four draws at home is more than any other English top-flight team this season – it just so happens that this fixture last year ended 2-2 – but City ran riot in a 5-2 home thumping before succumbing to Eberechi Eze’s cup-winning goal at Wembley.