HIGHLIGHTS! De Bruyne inspires stunning five-star City fightback! | Man City 5-2 Crystal Palace
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00:00Six days after being condemned for their performance in the derby stalemate at Old Trafford,
00:04Manchester City roared back from two goals down to beat Crystal Palace in a thrilling
00:08encounter at Etihad Stadium. After their defence had been badly exposed for Ebereke Ease and Chris
00:14Richards to put the visitors into a comfortable lead, City hit back after Palace had a third goal
00:19ruled out by a close call from the new semi-automated offside technology. Outgoing City skipper Kevin
00:25De Bruyne was at the centre of the astounding reversal of fortunes. First De Bruyne levelled
00:30as he deceived Palace goalkeeper Dean Henderson with a superb 33rd-minute free kick. Omar Marmish
00:36levelled before the break with his seventh goal for City, then Mateo Kovacic drove De Bruyne's layoff
00:41into the bottom corner a minute into the second half. James McAtee finally found the target after
00:47wasting a couple of excellent chances on his first Premier League start, dashing onto Ederson's punt
00:52downfield before rounding Henderson and applying the finish. Nico O'Reilly's deflected effort
00:57completed the scoring as City hit five goals in a home Premier League game for the first time this
01:02season. It was a thrilling way to end an uncharacteristic run of six City games which
01:07had produced a total of ten goals. More importantly, it took them back into fourth spot in the Premier
01:13League and applied the pressure on Chelsea and Newcastle in the scrap for Champions League
01:16qualification. There was some bad news as goalkeeper Ederson went down after feeling a pain in his
01:22leg as he went to make a routine second-half clearance and had to be replaced by Stefan Ortega.