Tottenham Hotspur fell at the Etihad Stadium at the hands of a resurgent Manchester City, who ended up 4-2 winners having been 2-0 down at half-time. Read the match report here, or have your say on the match on the Vital Spurs fan forum here.
Below is the pick of the stats from tonight’s match:
- Only two minutes and six seconds separated Dejan Kulusevski’s goal (43:59) from Emerson Royal’s (46:05) at the end of the first-half, and only two minutes separated Julian Alvarez’s (50:49) and Erling Haaland’s (52:59) goals for City at the start of the second half.
- This was only the seventh match in which Spurs scored in the first half this season, and the first time they’ve scored more than once in a first-half since the 6-2 victory over Leicester back in September.
- Spurs have only scored more than once in the first half in three Premier League games overall – the other match beyond tonight and the Leicester match was the opening day victory over Southampton back in August.
- Dejan Kulusevski has only scored two goals against one other team beyond Manchester City in the Premier League – against Norwich City, getting his two goals against them at Carrow Road on the final day of last season.
- Kulusevski has scored the vast majority of his Spurs goals away from home (6 away goals compared to 1 home goal, all in the Premier League).
- Spurs have scored a first-half goal in 9 league matches (4 home, 5 away), compared to 11 in which they have failed to do so.
- Spurs have scored 12 goals in the first half of matches (6 at home, 6 away), but have scored 27 second half-goals.
- City have won 2, drawn 1, and lost 4 of the 7 Premier League matches that they’ve been trailing by two or more goals at half-time at home under Pep Guardiola, with both of those wins being 4-2 victories against London clubs (the other coming against Crystal Palace earlier this season back in August).
- This was the first match Spurs have lost from a winning position in all competitions this season, having only dropped 5 points from leads in the league so far this campaign.
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