Silva, De Bruyne orchestrate City’s 5-0 win over Palace

Their 5-0 thrashing at Manchester City on Saturday, plus Swansea City’s win against Everton later that day, has increased the pressure on his team to beat Hull City on Sunday to maintain their Premier League status.

‘Quite simply David Silva is the wizard, ‘ added Belgium worldwide Kompany, who scored City’s second goal.

Vincent Kompany and Kevin De Bruyne were relieved with their dominant second half after only scoring one goal in the first.

It leaves qualification in their own hands and Guardiola was impressed that his side were so convincing against a team that had enjoyed wins against Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal last month and are still fighting for their Premier League survival.

Liverpool had the same number of shots as City when they drew at the Etihad Stadium in March but in City’s other 33 league games under Guardiola, they have had more shots than the opposition.

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Kompany said, “The (injury) story is done now”. “It couldn’t have gone any better”.

“Maybe I remember one game this season where the opponent create more chances”.

But, in today’s inflated market place, the form of Jesus, who cost City £27 million from Palmeiras previous year, already appears a bargain. When we switched, we got better going forward.

“It can disrupt your rhythm a bit when there are changes made in defence but we worked on our shape all week in training so we can’t have any excuses about not being prepared as a defensive unit”.

“It’s a possibility that the players think the job is done – we’ve been talking about and certainly warning them about it”, Allardyce said.

“We gifted them five goals today, we are where we are and punished by allowing them to score”. Substitute Damien Delaney clumsily felled Sané 35 yards from goal and de Bruyne floated the resulting free-kick onto the head of the Argentine defender, whose header was just his second goal for City since signing nearly two years ago. Silva was given a standing ovation when he was substituted in the 67th minute, the damage to Palace done by then.

He angled a chip towards Sterling and then, when the cross was half-cleared by Martin Kelly, timed his run perfectly to side-foot a volley into the corner of the net. It was Silva’s 50th goal for the club.

Relive Manchester City’s 5-0 win against Crystal Palace in the Premier League. “What he does to keep the ball means there is nearly no chance to get the ball from him”.

De Bruyne and Raheem Sterling were the next to get on the scoresheet before Nicolas Otamendi headed home the Belgian’s free-kick in stoppage time.

“It will be a big, big battle until the last game”.