Mancheser City fought back twice at Crystal Palace to earn a draw that leaves them in fourth in the Premier League
For all the relief at ending their eight-game winless run against Nottingham Forest in midweek, Pep Guardiola was right to be concerned. The City boss had explained that one victory would not be enough to stabilise the issues in the team that an injury crisis had brought, and two more central defenders going off was just what he didn't need.
It was yet another moment for the defence to forget and for Walker himself to forget this season - would scrapping the podcast help at this point or at least changing the title? - yet it came in entirely unsurprising circumstances. If you only have four centre-backs and three of them are injured - two against Forest - you are going to have to use players who aren't in form and your defence is going to look weak regardless.
The frustration for City at the moment is that everything that they have to work so hard for they gift to their opponents. At a wet and windy Selhurst Park, the Blues painstakingly and patiently worked their way back into the game to the point where they were dominating the contest and Oliver Glasner was calling for more energy from the home team; within minutes, Palace had retaken the lead.
That is not to say that they will lose every game, and they didn't here thanks to a defender. Lewis got on the end of a decent passing move to smash home a second equaliser and briefly silence Selhurst with just under 20 minutes to go.
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