Man City drop points at Palace, Brentford beat Newcastle in goalfest

Manchester City's struggles continued with a wobbly performance in a 2-2 Premier League draw at Crystal Palace on Saturday, while Brentford extended their unbeaten home run with a 4-2 win over Newcastle United and Aston Villa beat Southampton 1-0.

Liverpool, who lead the standings, were set to kick off the weekend action at Everton but the last ever Merseyside league derby at Goodison Park was postponed due to storm Darragh.

Erling Haaland and Rico Lewis scored for City, who won in midweek but have lost four of their last six league games and twice trailed at a wet and windy Selhurst Park.

They remain fourth on 27 points, a point behind Chelsea and Arsenal and eight off Liverpool but having played a game more.

"We take a point. We fought incredible and came back twice," City manager Pep Guardiola told the BBC. "It's a season to suffer. We'll see what happens in the last months.

"We tried. We cannot talk about the title race when we lose four games in a row and draw. We have to do more games to be consistent. It's difficult in the situation we have. I'm really pleased for the players - they fought and did everything."

Daniel Munoz and Maxence Lacroix scored for Palace. City defender Lewis got their second equaliser in the 68th minute but was shown a red card in the 84th after a second booking.

BATTLING BRENTFORD

Brentford held on to beat Newcastle at the Gtech Community Stadium after the visitors twice came from a goal down in the first half before Nathan Collins and Kevin Schade struck to wrap up the points.

Brentford climbed to sixth place in increasingly windy conditions while the Magpies are 12th.

Bryan Mbeumo and Yoane Wissa also scored for Brentford, while Newcastle's goals came from Alexander Isak and Harvey Barnes.

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