Man City drop points at Palace

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.

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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 said. “It’s a season to suffer. We’ll see what happens in the last months.”

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.

Bayern edge Heidenheim

Munich: Two second-half goals from substitute Jamal Musiala gave Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich a nervous 4-2 victory over visitors Heidenheim on Saturday as they increased their advantage to six points over second-placed Eintracht Frankfurt. In-form Musiala struck in the 56th minute, five minutes after coming on, to put Bayern 2-1 up before adding another in stoppage time.

Barcelona held at Betis

Seville: LaLiga leaders Barcelona had to settle for a 2-2 draw at mid-table Real Betis after substitute Assane Diao scored a stoppage-time equaliser on Saturday to give Manuel Pellegrini cause to celebrate in his 500th LaLiga game as a manager.

Barca have 38 points from 17 matches but second-placed Real Madrid, who have 33 with two games in hand, can narrow the gap to two points if they win at Girona later on Saturday.

“We weren’t able to finish things off in the second half, to put the result beyond doubt. But we now look forward to the next game,” said Barcelona’s Ferran Torres.