Crystal Palace Beat Man City on Guardiola’s 200th EPL Game

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Manchester City stumbled at home in the Premier League title race on Saturday.

City are now five points off the top after Pep Guardiola’s 10 men were beaten 2-0 by Crystal Palace at the Etihad.

City’s first home defeat of the season rounded off a perfect day for the Chelsea in the title race.

Wilfried Zaha punished slack defending from Ruben Dias and Aymeric Laporte to fire into the far corner after six minutes.

Laporte was then sent-off for pulling down Zaha as the last man in first-half stoppage time.

Gabriel Jesus thought he had equalised midway through the second-half only for the goal to be ruled out for offside against Phil Foden.

The 10-men were then caught out two minutes from time when Connor Gallagher smashed high past Ederson.

Arsenal are up to fifth after a fast start and some inspired goalkeeping from Aaron Ramsdale earned the Gunners a 2-0 win at Leicester.

Gabriel and Emile Smith Rowe struck inside the opening 18 minutes for the visitors at the King Power.

But they relied on Ramsdale thereafter as the England international made a miraculous save from James Maddison among a string of impressive stops.

“When I saw the ball leaving Maddison’s foot, I said, ‘Goal’. So I don’t know how it happened,” said Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta. 

“It was incredible – and the moment and the timing of it  as well was crucial.”

Burnley registered their first win of the season in style with a 3-1 victory over Brentford to move out of the bottom three.

Chris Wood, Matt Lowton and Maxwel Cornet all struck in the first 36 minutes as Burnley led a Premier League game 3-0 at half-time for the first time.

Southampton opened up a four-point cushion over the relegation zone thanks to Che Adams’ strike to win 1-0 at Watford.

*AFP

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