Second-half goals from Vincent Kompany, Kevin De Bruyne, Raheem Sterling and Nicolas Otamendi completed the scoring as City leapfrogged Liverpool into third in the Premier League. That's seven points won from the last three games for the Welsh club that looked to be in trouble in late December when it fired American coach Bob Bradley.
United are four points further back in fifth ahead of their trip to sixth-placed Arsenal on Sunday, with Mourinho set to ring the changes as the match falls in the middle of his team's Europa League semi-final with Celta Vigo. "The numbers don't lie, we have not been good enough in the boxes this season".
"Our system did not cause us to concede today's first goal - our defender had to clear the ball and he didn't, and from it they scored". Palace lost the ball in midfield, as they had done regularly throughout, before de Bruyne's side-footed effort squeezed through Hennessey's hands and into the corner. (Against Palace), we discovered that maybe he can play as a striker!
The home side took the 1-0 lead into the break before captain Kompany lashed in one of the goals of the season in the 49th minute.
Palace manager Sam Allardyce was critical of his team's defending.
"It's always nice to score", he told Sky Sports News.
Kompany also paid tribute to playmaker Silva, who along with De Bruyne was one of the game's most impressive performers.
The 31-year-old said: "The (injury) story is done now".
"In the game against Everton, they arrive four times and we lose 4-0".
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"Tottenham [in a 2-0 win at White Hart Lane last October] is the only team I can think of who created more chances than us [in a game]", he said.
Silva, making his 200th Premier League start, angled a chip towards Sterling and then, when the cross was half-cleared by Martin Kelly, timed his run perfectly to side-foot a volley into the corner of the net.
"All five goals could have been avoided if we had defended properly".
"Defensively we made too many mistakes and they punished us heavily", Allardyce said. If we had only been one goal in front with 20 minutes to go in this game we would not have won, so I said to the players at half time either score a goal or forget about it. "I'm very pleased with that".
"I didn't expect it, but it happened and we have to take it on the chin". We missed him a lot.
City host Leicester City and West Bromwich Albion in their next two fixtures before visiting Watford in the final game of the campaign.
Palace did show signs of life before the interval, but Wilfried Zaha's tame cross from space on the left halted a promising move, before Willy Caballero got down brilliantly to keep out Benteke's header.
"We are better than all the other teams".
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