Rayan Cherki scored two goals in five minutes and Erling Haaland also got a brace as Manchester City won at Crystal Palace 4-1 to maintain its perfect start to the Premier League on Friday.<\/p>\n
Haaland, the league top goal-scorer last season, opened his account after 17 minutes with a neat header.<\/p>\n
Cherki doubled the visitor\u2019s lead early in the second half when he danced through a nest of players and poked the ball home from close range.<\/p>\n
However, Palace reduced the deficit almost immediately when Yeremy Pino’s superb free kick hit the bar and then rebounded into the net off the despairing back of goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma.<\/p>\n
Cherki, though, was in fine form and restored City’s two-goal advantage two minutes later when his deflected shot from just outside the box wrong-footed keeper Dean Henderson.<\/p>\n
It was the first brace of his Premier League career but he was not happy and called his performance “so-so.”<\/p>\n
The French midfielder said he thought he was about to be subbed so turned on the style to ensure his permanence.<\/p>\n
“When I see Enzo Maresca wanted to change me I didn’t like that, so I had to show him I wanted to play and wanted to score,” Cherki said of the recently appointed coach.<\/p>\n
“With Pep Guardiola we had a big history,” he added. “Now we have started another story. We have to prove that every week, and we are here for that.”<\/p>\n
Haaland rounded off the scoring with a left-footed strike six minutes from time and City was on top of the league with six points from its first two games.<\/p>\n
Palace is pointless after two games and midfielder Adam Wharton suggested the team needed more time to adapt to new coach Pierre Sage, who took over in June.<\/p>\n
“I thought we had good moments but we didn’t test their keeper enough, like we should have,” Wharton said. “It is a disappointing result.<\/p>\n
“We are trying to work every day and implement the gaffer’s way of playing in and out of possession. I think we improved from last week and were in the game for longer. We need to keep at it and next week hopefully we’ll be even better.”<\/p>\n
Reporting by The Associated Press.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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