Manchester City's Rico Lewis bagged a second-half goal before being shown a red card in the dying minutes as his struggling team could only manage a point in a 2-2 Premier League draw with Crystal Palace at a wet and windy Selhurst Park on Saturday (Dec 7). Erling Haaland also scored for Pep Guardiola's City, who have just one victory in their last six league games and remained fourth in the league standings on 27 points after 15 games. Palace are four points above the drop zone in 16th.
Man City were shaky at the back early on and Daniel Munoz got Palace on the scoresheet in the fourth minute when he latched onto a pass from Will Hughes and slotted it into the far corner past Stefan Ortega.
The German keeper, who started in place of Ederson for the third successive game, will rue not stopping Munoz's shot after managing to get a hand on it.
City equalised in the 30th minute when Haaland leapt to head home Matheus Nunes's long cross into the far corner. His 13th league goal of the season drew him level with the league's top scorer Mohamed Salah of Liverpool.
Maxence Lacroix put Palace ahead against the run of play in the 56th minute when he leapt, completely unmarked, to head in Hughes' corner. But City drew level again in the 68th when Bernardo Silva threaded a beautiful through ball to Lewis, who emphatically fired home for his first goal of the season and third league goal of his career.
City were reduced to 10 men in the 84th minute after Lewis picked up his second yellow for a tackle on Trevoh Chalobah. Guardiola made an angry beeline for the officials after the final whistle to argue the decision.
