Great game today for Manchester City and Crystal Palace. I saw Crystal Palace really create problems in the first half with a 2 goal advantage. Entering the second half, Manchester City clearly controlled the whole field by pressing harder into the heart of the Palace defense which saw them score the first goal through Bernardo Silva.
Haaland with all his ability and luck scored a hat trick today for Manchester City. I think he was very happy today with those 3 goals, he's a player who doesn't give up and I could really see him asking the fans in the stadium to cheer up after scoring a header.
Manchester City is a team you can almost trust not to fail. I mean in the first half, with Crystal Palace all leading with 2 goals, I wasn't sure they understood the danger ahead and if it were to be within there power, they would have settled for a draw as that won't be asking too much but, Guardiola already had his draw against Newcastle United. If Guardiola had his way, he would have made a win of that game but, they didn't have that much time.
Coming to Crystal Palace, it was just 2 goals and they had a whole 45minutes plus, the added time to change the game. It was bad for Crystal Palace to have scored both goals and the first half and Guardiola is sure to give his boys all the necessary motivation to play with the second half and the result is a come back with 4 goals.