Manchester City have a problem. That may be an overly negative view to take after a 4-2 come-from-behind win which saw Erling Haaland score his first hat-trick for City in only his four league game.
But the fact that City had to fight back - even if impressively so - from two goals down against Crystal Palace should not be ignored.
Saturday's win gave City an unwanted statistic to mull over; the Blues have now fallen two goals behind in four of their last six Premier League games.
Of course, it's often not how you start, but how you finish that determines the outcome of a match. In those four games City ended up drawing 2-2 with West Ham, beating Aston Villa 3-2 on the remarkable final day of last season, drawing 3-3 with Newcastle last weekend and defeating Palace 4-2 on Saturday. READ MORE: Man City player ratings vs Crystal Palace as Erling Haaland smashes hat-trick City clearly have remarkable powers of recovery, something that Pep Guardiola will rightly identify as a positive and a quality that will serve them well.