Full Time: MAN CITY 4, Tottenham 1 @ Etihad Stadium

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  • FT: Man City 4-1 Tottenham
  • Gundogan heads opener (14)
  • De Bruyne slams home second (70)
  • Jesus misses penalty (75)
  • Sterling finishes off for third (80)
  • Sterling again for 4-0 (90)
  • Eriksen gets consolation (90+3)

MAN CITY 4-1 SPURS

FT: That’s that! Man City are 14 points clear in the Premier League, and have won 16 in a row.

A fantastic performance from Pep Guardiola’s side, who have absolutely torn Spurs apart here. The best team in Europe? Perhaps. By far and away the best side in England, without doubt.

GOAL! MAN CITY 4-1 SPURS (Eriksen 90+3)

Nothing more than a consolation. Eriksen gets onto his left foot from 20 yards, and finds the bottom right corner brilliantly past the stretched arm of Ederson.

That’s just one clean sheet in seven for City.

MAN CITY 4-0 SPURS

90+2: It threatens to kick off as Sissoko goes in very late and high on Delph, but it all blows over…

GOAL! MAN CITY 4-0 SPURS (Sterling 90)

Horrific defending by Eric Dier to allow City their fourth.

Bernardo Silva has it on the right, and plays a hopeful through ball for Sterling. Dier covers, nonchalantly sticks out a leg, but he misses the ball completely, and Sterling is in.

He taps it through the legs of Lloris, and then rolls it into the empty net.

Completely dominant City performance, but that’s so poor from Dier.

90: Final change from Spurs. Davies comes on to replace Danny Rose

88: SAVE! And again… De Bruyne brilliantly picks out Sterling, who has a go from range, left-footed. It’s heading for the top corner, but it’s a good fingertip save by Lloris again!

87: SAVE! Could have been four… Bernardo Silva is straight into the action, stretches for a half volley at the far post, and Lloris is down well to save to his right.

86: Final City change. Leroy Sane has been brilliant, and is replaced by Bernardo Silva.

MAN CITY 3-0 SPURS

84: Dele Alli, who could have easily been sent off, is replaced by Sissoko for the final few minutes. Boos for Alli from the home fans.

82: The City fans are absolutely loving this, as you’d expect. Gundogan has done well, and is replaced by Phil Foden.

GOAL! MAN CITY 3-0 TOTTENHAM (Sterling 80)

This side… wow.

It’s a fabulous City move as De Bruyne releases Sane in space on the left of the box. He could go for goal but instead squares for Sterling, and this time he makes no mistake, finishing off at the far post from close range.

Beautiful.

78: CHANCE! Lamela, who has just come on for Son, gets to the byline and squares, Winks just gets there, skips past the challenge of Mangala, and could go down if he wished, but perseveres City end up clearing!

76: PENALTY MISSED!

They are human after all! Jesus steps up, goes bottom left, but it hits the post!

SITTER! It falls to Sterling with an open goal, granted it flies back to him quickly, but he blazes it over the bar! How has he missed?!

74: PENALTY TO MAN CITY!

De Bruyne at his devastating best. He enters the area with pace, skips past Vertonghen, but the defender leaves a leg.

72: Jesus has it in plenty of space running forward, with two options from his team-mates, but he plays it well ahead of Sane on the left and out of play!

GOAL! MAN CITY 2-0 SPURS (De Bruyne 70)

That should really be that, and after looking like he could go off injured, De Bruyne slams home City’s second.

He’s in acres on the left flank, with options to his right, but he ignores his team-mates and goes for goal from an angle.

15 yards out in the box, De Bruyne leathers it… Lloris gets a touch but he can’t keep it out. Could he do better? Perhaps, but a fine strike.

70: Ouch. Dele Alli goes well over the top of the ball on De Bruyne’s ankle… he may get a little bit of the ball, but that is really, really nasty. That could have easily been red, but it’s only a yellow.

De Bruyne is hurt, receives some treatment, but he’s heading back on the pitch.

70: SAVE! Sane piles into the box, gets onto his right foot from 15 yards, and Lloris awkwardly beats it away!

Sterling somehow blazes over from the rebound, six yards out… he was flagged offside anyway, though replays show he was on!

68: City break quickly through Delph, and Gundogan has Jesus free on his right. Danny Rose chases back and does very well to slide in and intercept. Good defending.

66: Son turns onto his left foot on the edge of the box, but he blazes it high and wide of Ederson’s goal.

64: Spurs try to play out from the back, but they simply fail. Vertonghen sticks it out of play on the left.

62: Dembele is handed a booking for persistent fouling. This time on Fernandinho around 40 yards from goal.

60: Nearly an opening for Jesus, looking to sneak in between defence and Lloris, but the Frenchman is out well to collect.

Rose then has a go from 25 yards, but it’s high over the bar.

58: Change for City, and quite a surprising one. Aguero doesn’t look injured, and trudges off with a blank look on his face. Jesus is on.

56: SAVE! Really good save from Ederson, granted at a good height for him. Kane’s left-footed shot from 20 yards threatens his goal, but he is equal to it diving to his right.

55: City having to remain very organised in the defensive third. Eriksen does get between the lines and looks for the run of Alli, but Otamendi intercepts.
53: The free-kick by Eriksen is beaten away by Ederson, and then Kane goes in very late on Sterling. Deserved booking.
51: Booking for Delph, who drags down Trippier in a crossing position for Spurs…
49: Spurs upping the ante a tad. The game being played in City’s half so far in the second period…

47: Kane turns well in midfield and offloads Eriksen. He slows play down slightly, finds Son in the box, and Spurs have men over.

Sane then does really well inside the six-yard box to deny Son from Kane’s cross, and Ederson collects! Great defending by Sane.

Second Half KICK-OFF

MAN CITY 1-0 SPURS

HT: That’s the half-time whistle. City are just the one goal up, and it was very avoidable from a Spurs point of view.

Gundogan’s free header added to some excellent football from the hopes, with Sane given the freedom of Manchester on the left.

MAN CITY 1-0 SPURS

45+2: SAVE! Gundogan has Sane free to his left but goes for goal instead from 18 yards, and Lloris saves with relative ease to his left.

Man City 1-0 Tottenham

  Kyle Walker twines Christian Eriksen. Ilkay Gundogan wants to add to his opener but is too ambitious with this long-range effort that bounces safely up into Hugo Lloris’ diving embrace

Man City 1-0 Tottenham

 Hold up. Spurs break. Son Heung-min looks for Harry Kane in the box but the England striker cannot control. Danny Rose pops a follow-up into the box and Ederson bravely claims.

Man City 1-0 Tottenham

  Mousa Dembele goes in hard on Kyle Walker – his arm comes round his neck as he pushes the Manchester City full-back – a former Spurs team-mate of course – in a rugged challenge in search of the ball. Foul.

Man City 1-0 Tottenham

Oooh. Sergio Aguero is offside and his touch is poor anyway as Fernandinho looks to lift a through ball over the bank of black Spurs shirts lined up on the edge of their own penalty area.

Spurs are yet to have a shot on target. City have had four.

Man City 1-0 Tottenham

Under FIVE minutes until the break for Tottenham to salvage something from this pretty average start. They’ve let City run this.

Man City 1-0 Tottenham

Ilkay Gundogan is caught from behind by Dele Alli. Free-kick. Way out from goal and to the left. To be lifted in.

Fernandinho is having a word in the ref’s ear about a card, which doesn’t come. Alli has done pretty much nothing so far.

YELLOW CARD

37 min: Man City 1-0 Tottenham

Harry Kane takes a knock from Nicolas Otamend as the Argentina defender looks to boot a ball clear. He caught Kane in the face. No malice but dangerous. Yellow card.

Kane is back up again and should be fine, if a little stung.

CLOSE!

Man City 1-0 Tottenham

35 mins: The first we’ve really seen of Harry Kane. He’s had enough, wants to force things. He picks up Christian Eriksen’s pass with no right to shoot but shapes into a fraction of space and angles a blistering effort that just veers wide of the post.

CHANCE!

Man City 1-0 Tottenham

Kieran Trippier is OK but now he has different problems. Here comes Leroy Sane blazing into space on the overlap, he just takes a heavy touch and Hugo Lloris can cover.

Sergio Aguero then sends a daisy-cutting low drive just wide of Lloris’ left-hand post.

Steve, your best off where you are.

Man City 1-0 Tottenham

31 mins: Kieran Trippier wins this one. He robs Leroy Sane then sets Son Heung-Min on his way. But City swarm back to regain possession.

Trippier took a blow from a Fabian Delph sliding tackle and is down. The ref waves the Spurs physio on.

MAN CITY 1-0 SPURS

30: CHANCE! More City attacking. De Bruyne sticks a lovely ball over the top for Sane on the left, and his cut back finds the on-running Aguero.

He smashes it towards goal, but Rose puts in a superb block with his outstretched leg!

MAN CITY 1-0 SPURS

28: SAVE! City really probing here. The ball falls to Gundogan in the box, and he looks for the far corner. It looks simple for Lloris, but he parries it away into a dangerous area, only for Spurs to clear.

MAN CITY 1-0 SPURS

27: Free-kick Spurs on the right, and City’s line is extremely high up the pitch. Eriksen delivers, but it falls simply into Ederson’s hands!

MAN CITY 1-0 SPURS

25: CHANCE! Ederson the goalkeeper pings a 50-yard ball to Sane on the left, and he finds Aguero in space. He gets into the box, looks to go across Lloris, but he makes a good save!

It falls to Sterling, who opens up some space for himself, but he sticks his left-footed effort a yard or so over the bar!

MAN CITY 1-0 SPURS

24: Danny Rose, that is so poor. Winks plays Rose in on the left, in absolute acres. He looks to pick out Kane with a first-time cross, but it’s horrible out of play.

 

MAN CITY 1-0 SPURS

23: Very disciplined Man City line, as Kane is caught offside from Eriksen’s through ball. City in control here so far.

 

MAN CITY 1-0 SPURS

21: This corner IS dealt with, by Harry Kane of all people, before a nudge from Rose on Mangala in the box prompts penalty appeals.

That is a foul anywhere else on the pitch, but Pawson plays on!

 

MAN CITY 1-0 SPURS

19: Spurs look like they want to play their way through the pressure, and it keeps coming back.

Trippier once again allows Sane past him far too easily, and his cross is cleared for a corner.

Man City 1-0 Tottenham

Straight after the goal City are swarming Spurs at the back. Pressing everything.

Jan Vertonghen slightly over-hits a backpass to Hugo Lloris and the French keeper skids on the turf as he adjusts under pressure

GOAL! MAN CITY 1-0 SPURS (Gundogan 14)

There’s a lot of confused faces in the Spurs defence right now. That is horrific marking from Pochettino’s side. It’s a corner on the left, curled in nicely by Sane, and it lands plum on the head of Gundogan from eight yards. He bullets his header past Lloris, and that’s an absolute gift for the leaders.

MAN CITY 0-0 SPURS

13: Son gets a run down the left flank, he slips it back to Trippier, whose cross lands on the head of Kane. The striker has two team-mates behind him, but tries an impossible header from just inside the box. Well wide.

MAN CITY 0-0 SPURS

11: De Bruyne free-kick on the right, Aguero is slightly offside but not flag goes up, and the Argentine nods it a few yards wide of Lloris’ near post.

MAN CITY 0-0 SPURS

9: First sign of City’s quality. Trippier allows Sane past him with real ease on the right, the German is at the byline, but his centre is cleared by Vertonghen as Aguero looked to poke home.

MAN CITY 0-0 SPURS

7: Bit of a slow start to this game, and you can hear the 3,000 travelling Spurs fans making plenty of noise in the away end.

Winks steals the ball high up the pitch, but his ball out to Eriksen is intercepted by Delph.

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MAN CITY 0-0 SPURS

5: Dembele is late on his Belgium team-mate De Bruyne. The City man asks Craig Pawson to dish out a yellow, but just a foul.

MAN CITY 0-0 SPURS

4: Most of the ball in City’s half early on, but nothing in or around the penalty area. Spurs have started on the front foot and have thrown the full-backs forward.

 MAN CITY 0-0 SPURS

2: Little nudge by Kane on Delph as he looks to latch onto a diagonal ball from Son through on goal.

MAN CITY 0-0 SPURS

1: And they’re off!

BREAKINGTeam news – no Silva

Man City v Tottenham (6:30pm)

Pep Guardiola’s Man City make three changes from the side that beat Swansea 4-0 as Walker, Gundogan and Sane replace Danilo, Bernardo Silva and, surprisingly, David Silva. The Spaniard is not in the match day squad.

Spurs make three changes; Trippier, Dembele and Alli come in for Aurier, Sissoko and Lamela.

Man City

BIG team news from Etihad Stadium as there is no David Silva for the Premier League leaders Manchester City. Namesake Bernardo Silva and Danilo also drop out.

In come Kyle Walker against his old club, Ilkay Gundogan and Leroy Sane.

CIty XI: Ederson, Walker, Otamendi, Mangala, Delph, De Bruyne, Fernandinho, Gundogan, Sane, Sterling, Aguero.

Tottenham

Tottenham make three changes after beating Brighton during the week. Kieran Trippier, Mousa Dembele and Dele Alli all start for Serge Aurier, Moussa Sissoko and Erik Lamela.

Spurs XI: Lloris, Trippier, Dier, Vertonghen, Rose, Dembele, Winks, Alli, Eriksen, Son, Kane.

MAN CITY v TOTTENHAM

  • Manchester City are winless in four Premier League games against Spurs (D1 L3) since a run of four consecutive victories between November 2013 and May 2015.
  • Spurs have won more away Premier League games at Manchester City (10) than they have at any other club.
  • The last time a team beat each of Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea and Tottenham in a top-flight league season before the New Year was 1953-54, with Wolves and West Brom doing so – Manchester City could replicate this with a victory in this game.
  • This Manchester City winning run (15 in a row) is still four wins away from Pep Guardiola’s best-ever winning run as a manager in league competition. He won 19 in a row between October 2013 and March 2014 as Bayern Munich boss in the German Bundesliga.

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