The £7m buy from Montpellier created a number of chances and could have scored himself.
Alan Pardew: “Remy’s a little bit like Nasri and Silva for Man City; he has that quality on the corners of the boxes to take that extra second, that extra moment to make the pass.
"I was really pleased with him. I thought he might struggle against the champions, but he coped quite well and that was really pleasing.
“You have to take the fact he was up against the champions into consideration. I thought we, as a team, you could see there was a good spirit there, we really worked hard and we had to.”