Manchester Metropolis’s Rico Lewis bagged a second-half objective earlier than being proven a purple card within the dying minutes however his struggling group may solely handle a degree in a 2-2 Premier League draw with Crystal Palace at a moist and windy Selhurst Park on Saturday.
Erling Haaland additionally scored for Pep Guardiola’s Metropolis, who’ve gone six away video games with no win in all competitions and remained fourth within the league desk on 27 factors after 15 video games. Palace are 4 factors above the drop zone in sixteenth.
“We take a degree. We fought unbelievable and got here again twice,” Guardiola advised BBC Sport. “It is a season to undergo. We’ll see what occurs within the final months.
“We tried. Huge praise for the opponent. We can’t speak concerning the title race once we lose 4 video games in a row and draw. We’ve to do extra video games to be constant. It is troublesome within the state of affairs we now have. I am actually happy for the gamers — they fought and did every thing.”
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Metropolis had been shaky on the again early on and Daniel Muñoz acquired Palace on the scoresheet within the fourth minute when he latched onto a cross from Will Hughes and slotted it into the far nook previous Stefan Ortega.
The German keeper, who began rather than Éderson for the third successive sport, will rue not stopping Muñoz’s shot after managing to get a hand on it.
Metropolis equalised within the thirtieth minute when Haaland leapt to move house Matheus Nunes’s lengthy cross into the far nook. His thirteenth league objective of the season drew him degree with the league’s high scorer Mohamed Salah of Liverpool.
Maxence Lacroix put Palace forward in opposition to the run of play within the 56th minute when he leapt, utterly unmarked, to move in Hughes’ nook.
However Metropolis drew degree once more within the 68th when Bernardo Silva threaded a stupendous by ball to Lewis, who emphatically fired house for his first objective of the season and third league objective of his profession.
Metropolis had been diminished to 10 males within the 84th minute after Lewis picked up his second yellow for a sort out on Trevoh Chalobah. Guardiola made an offended beeline for the officers after the ultimate whistle to argue the choice.
The guests had been coming off a completely dominant 3-0 house victory over Nottingham Forest which marked a return to successful methods after what had been a troublesome run of outcomes, however the celebration was short-lived.
Guardiola’s aspect squandered a number of different probabilities together with an early point-blank shot from Haaland that Palace keeper Dean Henderson stopped with the aspect of his face, after which was down for a number of minutes receiving remedy earlier than persevering with.
Ilkay Gündogan additionally fired a protracted shot off the submit within the first half.