FTMatchday 16

Crystal Palace vs Manchester City: Prediction

📍 Selhurst Park

Crystal Palace0

Manchester City3

Not enough past results yet.

Match events

3 goals

Crystal PalaceManchester City

41'Erling Haalandassist Matheus Nunes
Daichi Kamadayellow card62'
Jean-Philippe Matetaon63'
Daichi Kamadaon67'
69'Phil Fodenassist Rayan Cherki
Nathaniel Clyneon77'
85'Tijjani Reijnderson
Dean Hendersonyellow card88'
89'Erling Haalandassist Erling Haaland
90'Erling Haalandon
90'Nico O'Reillyon
90'Bernardo Silvaon

Events from TheSportsDB. They can lag the live score by a few minutes.

Match stats

Crystal PalaceManchester City

38%Possession62%
2Expected goals (xG)1
16Shots7
4Shots on target6
2Corners2
9Fouls6
2Yellow cards0
0Red cards0
3Offsides2
3Saves4
355Passes589

Line-ups

Crystal Palace

17Nathaniel Clyne
1Dean Henderson
7Ismaïla Sarr
18Daichi Kamada
14Jean-Philippe Mateta
3Tyrick Mitchell
5Maxence Lacroix
26Chris Richards
6Marc Guéhi
10Yeremi Pino
20Adam Wharton

Manchester City

20Bernardo Silva
25Gianluigi Donnarumma
3Ruben Dias
47Phil Foden
9Erling Haaland
4Tijjani Reijnders
10Rayan Cherki
24Joško Gvardiol
27Matheus Nunes
14Nico González
33Nico O'Reilly

Tipster consensus

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Most likely score–

Expected goals (model)–

Team rating (Elo)1521 – 1535

Recent form

Crystal PalaceDWLWW

Manchester CityLLWWW

#	Team	P	GD	Pts
1	Manchester City	38	+42	78
2	Crystal Palace	38	-10	45

Head to head

Crystal Palace 1–4 Manchester City2026-08-28
Manchester City 3–0 Crystal Palace2026-05-13

Match preview

Crystal Palace host Manchester City in the Premier League on 14 December 2025. Crystal Palace sit 15th on 45 points and Manchester City are 2nd on 78. Crystal Palace have won 3 of their last 5 (DWLWW), while Manchester City have won 3 of 5 (LLWWW). In their last 2 meetings, Crystal Palace won 0, Manchester City won 2 and 0 ended level. These are probabilities from past results, not guarantees: football upsets happen every week.

How this is worked out

Each club has an Elo rating that moves after every result (bigger wins move it more, home sides get a small boost). We turn the rating gap into expected goals and use a Poisson model to get win, draw and loss chances. The prediction is locked at kick-off and never edited.

Probabilities, not promises. For analysis and entertainment only. 18+.