Yaya Toure returns to Manchester City team for match at Crystal Palace

The England striker hammered home the victor from the penalty spot in stoppage time as Spurs came roaring back from 2-1 down to protect their record as the only unbeaten team in the league.

Yaya Toure scored a brace in his first Premier League game of the season as Manchester City beat Crystal Palace 2-1.

“If City don’t win the Champions League then I hope that Pep has got the balls to say that he was wrong to humiliate a great player like Yaya”, he said in September for example.

Craig Burley believes Yaya Toure proved he has something to offer City in their Premier League campaign.

Pep Guardiola hailed Yaya Toure as being in better condition than ever before after welcoming the veteran midfielder back into his trophy-chasing team on Saturday.

They will welcome back Bacary Sagna to the side, who was out with a hamstring injury, while Vincent Kompany is also available for selection after missing nearly the entire season with a series of injuries.

“The last two months he was awesome in the training sessions”. We now have one more man that can help us achieve our targets this season.

“We have a new player now”, he beamed after watching Toure’s team mates give him a hero’s reception.

Following the global break, it wasn’t clear what kind of Manchester City performance we would see.

Stunning work by Raheem Sterling, who left Martin Kelly in his wake, also went unrewarded at the other end as his low cross was cleared to safety. He’s been training with us every day, and I was there, so I’m so glad. “I am very happy to be playing football, my teammates are very important to me”.

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“They have a coach with a lot of experience in England. He’s a huge personality and his team mates appreciate him a lot”. “So that’s no doubt why they were so happy”.

Palace manager Alan Pardew said his team were the makers of their own downfall on Saturday, saying: ‘This Premier League is unforgiving.

“We are in a position in the league which is false and we need to rectify that before we get to February. We really gifted Man City two goals today from mistakes that led to the first goal and the second goal”, he said.

Liverpool are still top of the Premier League, despite drawing 0-0 with Southampton at Saint Marys. We think only a couple of weeks.

The game was up for grabs in the final 20 minutes, with City eyeing a shot at top spot and Palace desperate to put further space between themselves and the bottom three. But it didn’t. We have to improve from our set-plays.