After Manchester City ended their winless streak against Nottingham Forest during the week, there was now the next setback. At Crystal Palace, the English champions only got one point in a 2-2 draw. Manchester United suffered a bitter 2-3 home defeat against Nottingham Forest.
Coach Pep Guardiola’s team could perhaps even be happy about this point, as they had to fight against a lot of resistance again. Daniel Munoz gave the hosts the lead in the fourth minute, and immediately after the great chance to make it 2-0, Erling Haaland was able to equalize for the Premier League defending champions (30th).
Lewis equalizes and then weakens his team
After the break, former Bundesliga professional Maxence Lacroix set up Crystal Palace again (56′), but this time City came back through Rico Lewis (68′). Afterwards, Manchester tried everything to get their second win after the 3-0 win against Nottingham Forest, but after a yellow-red card for Lewis (84th), even winning the point was in danger.
Manchester missed out on getting at least a little closer to league leaders Liverpool. The Reds’ Merseyside derby at Everton FC had been canceled a few hours earlier due to storm Darragh.
Arsenal FC (at Fulham FC) and Chelsea FC (at Tottenham Hotspur) have the opportunity to distance Guardiola’s team to four points on Sunday.
United is also unstable under coach Amorim
Manchester United continues to struggle with performance fluctuations under new team manager Ruben Amorim. The record champions lost 2:3 (1:1) against the surprise team from Nottingham, also due to blatant individual mistakes.
Rasmus Hojlund was able to compensate for the early deficit caused by Nikola Mlenkovic in the 2nd minute (18th). But after the break, the “Red Devils” got themselves further into trouble due to negligence in defense, Morgan Gibbs-White (47th) and Chris Wood (54th) increased Forest’s lead to 3-1. Bruno Fernandes (61′) made it through, United pushed until the end, but missed all chances.
After the 2-0 defeat at Arsenal during the week, it was Amorim’s second defeat as United coach. The “Red Devils” remain in a disappointing 13th place.
West Ham striker Antonio “in a stable condition” after traffic accident
There are major concerns about Michail Antonio at West Ham United. As the club confirmed in a statement, the striker was involved in a serious traffic accident on Saturday. “The thoughts and prayers of everyone at the club are with Mikhail, his family and his friends at this time.”,
Antonio is “in a stable condition”the club said in another statement that evening. “Mikhail is conscious and able to communicate. He is currently being closely monitored in a hospital in central London.”. The attacker has been playing for the Londoners since 2015. So far he has scored a total of 83 goals in 322 competitive games.