City Finally Get The Upper Hand On Spurs – Match Stats

Tottenham Hotspur made the trip back to the Etihad Stadium earlier today to face off once again against Manchester City.

Having taken an aggregate Champions League quarter-final victory over Pep Guardiola’s side recently, in fairness, most fans agreed this game was pretty much a dead rubber and given the emotions on our side, knowing there would be significant rotation to rest players (on top of our current injury list), I think most hoped for simply a draw or a narrow defeat.

We couldn’t manage the draw as an early goal five minutes into the game decided the points as we couldn’t find a leveller, so it was a narrow 1-0 defeat on the day. City did better dominate the game but in terms of true chances, we had the same number of efforts on target, so in some senses the defeat is harsh.

It does of course make the battle at the top of the table slightly more interesting now as we remain in third place on 67 points, but Arsenal have a game in hand and sit one point below us, as do Chelsea.

End the campaign strongly now though as it’s still largely in our hands.

Manchester City				Tottenham Hotspur
Foden (5)
Ederson				Gazzaniga
Walker				Foyth
Stones				Sanchez
Laporte				Alderweireld			78
Zinchenko				Vertonghen
De Bruyne			38	Davies
Gundogan				Eriksen
Foden			85	Dier			61
Bernardo Silva				Alli			69
Aguero			66	Son Heung-Min
Sterling				Lucas Moura
Substitutes
Sane			66	Rose			69
Silva			85	Janssen
Fernandinho			38	Wanyama			61
Mahrez				Vorm
Otamendi				Walker-Peters
Gabriel Jesus				Llorente			78
Muric				Skipp

Game Statistics
15	Goal attempts	10
4	On Target	4
4	Corners	4
11	Fouls	11
1	Yellow Cards	2
0	Red Cards	0
61	%	39