Crystal Palace 0–3 Manchester City — Premier League 2025/26 Match Stats

Premier League · 2025Sun, 14 Dec 2025, 14:00 UTCSelhurst Park

Crystal Palace

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0–3Historical match

Manchester City

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A completed match from a finished season. This page is the record of what happened.

Match at a glance

Manchester City won 0–3.

Shots: 167
Shots on target: 46
Possession: 39%61%

Full time

What the match recorded

Manchester City beat Crystal Palace 3–0. Recorded in this match (Crystal Palace – Manchester City): shots 16–7, shots on target 4–6, possession 39%–61%, corners 2–2. This is what was recorded. It is not a claim that the result was foreseeable.

Pre-match record

What the data showed before kick-off. Kept for reference; it did not know the result.

Manchester City's recent record differs from the season

moderate

Manchester City's last-five goals scored average is above their season average.

3 goals/match ▲Goals forLast 5 · Season2.38 goals/match

Evidence and caveat

Comparison: An unweighted last-five average is compared with the unweighted season average.

Window: last_5 versus season

Metric	Last 5	Season	Baseline
Goals for	3 goals/match	2.38 goals/match	1.39 goals/match

Caveat: Five matches are sensitive to opponent mix and isolated match states.

The teams have contrasting possession records

strong

Manchester City have recorded the higher season possession share.

42.1%PossessionCrystal Palace · Manchester City● 57.3%

Evidence and caveat

Comparison: The recorded possession gap is 15.2 percentage points.

Window: season

Metric	Crystal Palace	Manchester City	Baseline
Possession	42.1%	57.3%	51.1%

Caveat: Possession share does not show where possession occurred or how chances were created.

This match

Match statistics

Shots16 shots7 shotsCrystal Palace 16 shots, Manchester City 7 shots
Shots on target4 shots6 shotsCrystal Palace 4 shots, Manchester City 6 shots
Possession39%61%Crystal Palace 39%, Manchester City 61%
Corners2 corners2 cornersCrystal Palace 2 corners, Manchester City 2 corners
Fouls9 fouls6 foulsCrystal Palace 9 fouls, Manchester City 6 fouls
Yellow cards2 cards0 cardsCrystal Palace 2 cards, Manchester City 0 cards

History

Head-to-head

Recent meetings between these teams.

Last 5 meetings

0Crystal Palace

2Draws

3Manchester City

12 Apr 2025Manchester City — Crystal Palace · Premier League5–2

7 Dec 2024Crystal Palace — Manchester City · Premier League2–2

6 Apr 2024Crystal Palace — Manchester City · Premier League2–4

16 Dec 2023Manchester City — Crystal Palace · Premier League2–2

11 Mar 2023Crystal Palace — Manchester City · Premier League0–1

Head-to-Head & Recent Meetings

Metric comparison

Team comparison

Season averages, with the sample size beside each metric.

Where the edge is

Season: Crystal Palace favored in 1 of 9 directional metrics · Manchester City in 7 · 1 too close

led this metric higher value (descriptive) too close

Window

Season

Crystal Palace16 matchesManchester City16 matches

1.25 goals/matchGoals scored16/16▲ 2.38 goals/match

0.94 goals/match ▲Goals allowed16/161 goal/match

11.8 shots/matchShots16/16▲ 13.9 shots/match

4.25 shots/matchShots on target16/16▲ 5.38 shots/match

42.1%Possession16/16● 57.3%

3.69 corners/matchCorners16/16● 5.56 corners/match

1.69 cards/matchCards16/161.69 cards/match

10.1 fouls/matchFouls16/169.38 fouls/match

Evidence quality

How much supports this analysis

Grade A · Strong evidenceStrong evidence — ready

Season samples16 / 16home / away teams

Recent samples5 / 5last-five windows

FreshnessLess than one dayfrom nearest prior match

Recorded xG is incomplete, so xG context is omitted where unavailable.

Known unknowns

Lineups, injuries, suspensions and tactical changes are not available in the retained dataset.
Some metrics are unavailable or below their observation minimum: xg_for, xg_against.

Analysis cutoff: Sun, 14 Dec 2025, 18:00 UTC · analysis-v4