{"id":958504,"date":"2026-05-14T04:20:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/958504\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T04:20:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:20:43","slug":"manchester-city-player-ratings-vs-crystal-palace-are-you-watching-thomas-tuchel-phil-foden-boosts-fading-world-cup-hopes-by-helping-pep-guardiolas-title-chasers-close-gap-to-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/958504\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City player ratings vs Crystal Palace: Are you watching, Thomas Tuchel? Phil Foden boosts fading World Cup hopes by helping Pep Guardiola&#8217;s title-chasers close gap to Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><strong>Gianluigi Donnarumma (6\/10):<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Made an incredible early stop to keep out a close-range effort from Jean-Philippe Mateta (even though it wouldn&#8217;t have counted due to an earlier offside) before making another smart save to deny Tyrick Mitchell just after City had gone a goal up. Had just one dodgy moment in the closing stages when he passed the ball to a Palace player!<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Matheus Nunes (6\/10):<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>A little loose in possession at times but the midfielder-turned-fullback worked tirelessly and won a lot of possession for his team as a result.<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Abdukodir Khusanov (7\/10):<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Another solid showing from the Uzbekistan international, who barely misplaced a pass and helped Guehi contain Mateta after an early scare.<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Marc Guehi (7\/10):<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>A very commanding display from Guehi, who was dominant in defence and also repeatedly stepped forward to put City on the front foot with his impressive distribution.<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Josko Gvardiol (7\/10):<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Back in the starting line-up after injury and almost marked the occasion with a goal but his fine header was brilliantly saved by Dean Henderson. Nonetheless, this was a hugely encouraging hour-long outing from the Croat, who showed City what they&#8217;d been missing &#8211; at both ends of the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gianluigi Donnarumma (6\/10): Made an incredible early stop to keep out a close-range effort from Jean-Philippe Mateta (even&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":958505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,1925,393,126,4884,2465,886,267785,92776,22868,101,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-958504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-crystal-palace","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-features","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-manchester","14":"tag-manchester-city","15":"tag-manchester-city-vs-crystal-palace","16":"tag-p-foden","17":"tag-player-ratings","18":"tag-premier-league","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116571014803771926","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/958505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}