Simon Thomas

And you know you're having a difficult day when Nicolas Otamendi scores, only his second ever for Manchester City.

At this point, Chris, was the Palace defence confidence-wise absolutely shot?

But the worry for Sam Allardyce is they are back in the habit of losing after those brilliant wins against Chelsea.

Liverpool and Arsenal, it's three defeats in a row.

He's always said the job wasn't done and it certainly isn't now.

We'll hear from him next.

Man City up into third.

They've thumped Crystal Palace by five goals to nil here at the Etihad.

For Palace, their relegation fears are once again mounting.

Let's hear from Martin Kelly with Patrick Davidson.

Yeah, just all despite it.

Understandably, downbeat Martin Kelly, three defeats in a row now for Crystal Palace.

Let's see what Sam Allardyce made of today's events.

He too is with Patrick.

Chris is right, if Martin Kelly gets a decent header, they're probably not 1-0 down without two minutes even on the clock.

But coming back to what Martin was saying before we heard from Sam there, talked about the preparation, that they hadn't worked enough at this defence.

Did you see that right from the start today?

But as he reminded us once again, it still remains in their hand.

And as you look ahead to next weekend, we spoke about this at the start, this is always going to be massive.

It is absolutely massive at home.