{"id":8436,"date":"2026-05-14T17:26:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=8436"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:26:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:26:31","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:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=8436","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> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"B\">\n<div>\n<p><b><strong>Gianluigi Donnarumma (6\/10):<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>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!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Matheus Nunes (6\/10):<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Abdukodir Khusanov (7\/10):<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Another solid showing from the Uzbekistan international, who barely misplaced a pass and helped Guehi contain Mateta after an early scare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Marc Guehi (7\/10):<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><strong>If Guardiol (7\/10):<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>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.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gianluigi Donnarumma (6\/10): Made an incredible early stop to keep out a close-range effort from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}