Manchester City have suffered a blow ahead of next week's Manchester derby as Aymeric Laporte will be suspended for the trip to Old Trafford.
It's hasn't been the best week for City as they were defeated in the Carabao Cup for the first time in over five years by West Ham on Wednesday and are now struggling at home to Crystal Palace.
A poor backpass in the opening five minutes by Laporte was cut out by Conor Gallagher and the midfielder then slipped in Wilfried Zaha to give the visitors the lead.
The Blues struggled to create any clear cut chances in the rest of the half and then things went from bad to worse in stoppage time as Laporte was shown a red card.
The Spain international dragged down Zaha as he was about to go through on goal and was sent off after being adjudged to have denied a clear goal-scoring opportunity.
As a result, Laporte will be unavailable for next week's match against Manchester United. But he will only have to serve a one-game ban and will be back for the following matches against Everton and West Ham.
United will also be going into the crucial derby with a player unavailable due to suspension, with Paul Pogba still serving a three-game ban due to his own red card in the 5-0 defeat to Liverpool.
The Frenchman was dismissed just 15 minutes after coming on off the bench for an awful, studs-up challenge on Naby Keita, and will also miss Saturday's trip to Tottenham and the match against Watford after the international break.
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