Premier League: Manchester City 0 - 2 Crystal Palace

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Pep Guardiola said many things went wrong for Manchester City after Crystal Palace ruined his 200th Premier League game at the club.

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Wilfried Zaha pounced on an Aymeric Laporte error to put Palace ahead and the France defender was later sent off for a professional foul on the Eagles forward.

Conor Gallagher's late second goal sealed the visitors' victory after Gabriel Jesus had seen an equaliser chalked off by the video assistant referee.

Guardiola spoke about the red card after the match: "It could be a yellow card, could be a red, it depends on the decision of the referee. The disallowed goal, I didn’t see it but we didn’t lose because of that."

The Manchester City manager added: "We conceded an early goal, played a good first half but at the same time there was the sending off and the interpretation from the referee.

"Unfortunately it went wrong with many, many things. We didn’t have many chances in the first half but we had enough to score. Even with 10 against 11 we created more chances than them."

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Comments from around the world

Like all Premier League matches, this was a match watched by millions of people across the world. Let's have a look at some of the best.

This Arsenal fan on the BBC match report of the game. He is clearly pleased to see a former hero doing ok as a new manager: "Vieira clearly has something about him and has a clearly defined style. He looks like a smart appointment from Palace and I am delighted as an Arsenal fan to see him doing well."

This Palace fan was very happy with his side's performance: "Vieira you are a genius, honestly won't be long until he's managing one of the real elite clubs in my opinion, the job he's doing is amazing. Up the Palace!"

Manchester City's official Twitter account posted the thoughts of Rúben Dias: "Today we lost three very important points but it is football. We are not happy but looking forward. We were not at our best but even so the team fought and gave everything and it was not enough."

The highlights

You can watch the highlights of the match in the video below.

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