Facing Palace, City Got a Chance of Party Goal Again
Manchester City has always been a party of goals in its last two parties in the Premier League. Will it happen again during The Citizens against Crystal Palace this weekend?
The City currently dominates the Premier League standings along with Manchester United with 13 points from five matches. They both make 16 goals and conceded only one goal.
That's all thanks to City's solid performance in his last two league games, making 11 goals without conceding a single goal. It got after crushing Liverpool 5-0 and crushed Watford with a score of 6-0.
Performance of Sergio Aguero and Gabriel Jesus on the front lines to be the reason why City can be as solid now. This weekend, the Palace may be a victim of malignancy City at Etihad Stadium on Saturday.
The team, now a caretaker, has never won from five parties so far and no goals have been made. The question is, how many goals will City contrive?
- Manchester City has won nine of the last 10 meetings against Crystal Palace, including their last four matches.
- The Citizens only lost once from the last 24 league games at Etihad Stadium (14 wins 9 draws 1 lost).
- Crystal Palace is the first Premier League team (top division) who always lost in five games initially and could not make a goal.
- Only two teams from the top four divisions throughout the history of English football failed to score in their first six league games - Burnley in 1997-98 (third caste) and Halifax Town in 1990-1991 (fourth caste). Halifax holds the record in England, eight games goalless in the 1990/1991 season.
- The last team to lose in the opening six Premier League matches was Portsmouth in the 2009/2010 season and they finished bottom.
- Crystal Palace has an average of 7.14 attempts per game this season which means they have at least been able to score seven goals. This is the seventh highest in the Premier League this season.
- Cyrstal Palace always conceded the first time in 31 games since the start of the 2016/2017 season.
- Sergio Aguero scored 14 goals and five assists from his last 17 games in the Premier League since early March 2017.
- Of players who make at least 10 goals in Premier League history, the Manchester City duo currently has the best goal ratio - Gabriel Jesus scored a goal per 89 minutes while Sergio Aguero per 108 minutes.
- David Silva scored four goals and made one assist from six matches with Crystal Palace - only against Newcastle United, Silva made more goals (5 goals).
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