A single step from GREATNESS…
How it stands at the top
SOFASCORE STATS: Tottenham 0-2 Man City
Ange Postecoglou: ‘Last 48 hours have revealed the foundations of Spurs are fairly fragile’
I think the last 48 hours have revealed the foundations are fairly fragile. Outside the club, inside the club, everywhere. It has been an interesting exercise. It’s just my observations. I’m not going to tell you more. You can make your own assessment of what happened.
I’ve obviously misread the situation in terms of what is important in the side’s endeavour to become a winning team.
City FINALLY conquer Spurs away in PL
Pep Guardiola: ‘We have a job to do ‘
It was good. In these types of games emotions are there and you cannot always perform your best. It depends on the intensity and quality the opponent brings to the game, they were playing to qualify for the Champions League.
They (Tottenham) are an exceptional team, physical, intense, well managed, good with and without the ball. We knew it was going to be difficult but in the bad moments we were there and our keepers do the job. At the end in the right moment we punish them.
He has done this since he arrived. We saw the level of keeper he is. He makes incredible saves and does it so many times. Spurs are so fast with Kulusevski, Maddison, Son, Johnson, and the runs of Porro and Sarr, they have a lot of weapons. We knew we had to suffer but it gives us a life to go again one more game at home on Sunday.
Yes, they are not celebrating anything. Happy of course, relieved because we wanted to arrive at the last game. We know we have a job to do and the fans will support us of course. To win Wimbledon, tennis players say the serve to win is the most difficult. We need to prepare well, focus, and try again.
Love is in the air in London
Kyle Walker: ‘Last night I couldn’t sleep’
It was very difficult with the emotions riding on it but the lads did the job they needed to do. It is one step closer. You have to take every game as it comes. We had a job to do tonight but we know how things can swing.
We prepare, we recover and West Ham is another final and hopefully we can go and make history for this great club. It is not job done by a million miles. Hopefully we can get the win. If I didn’t enjoy the pressure, I would be in the wrong job and the wrong team.
Last night, I couldn’t sleep. They (Arsenal fans) tried to set fireworks off but we weren’t there, they missed us. I can’t describe the feeling when we went 2-0 up. It was an unusual game but we are competitors. Spurs could have gone and got the Champions League. You could see they were putting everything on the line to win the game.
Aston Villa qualify for the Champions League!
City’s unbeaten streak rolls on…
Micah Richards: ‘City have the know-how’
There’s always a big moment in a title race, and (Stefan) Ortega’s save from Son (Heung-Min) was just absolutely magnificent. You see the spirit here. You see the team. They’ve got the know-how, they’ve got the knowledge.
They just deliver in the vital moments. It’s the mentality, it’s tactically. Everything about this team is just great.
ONE more win needed
Efficient Erling
‘Extraordinary contribution from Ortega’
Extraordinary contribution from Ortega for City tonight. He’s won them the league here….kind of…
Stefan the super sub
Rodri: ‘Stefan Ortega saved us’
It’s unbelievable. We know it’s one more game, but what we did today was incredible. The substitutions, Stefan (Ortega) saved us.
We have the best striker in the world and Stefan was simply incredible. I have no words. Watch this, it’s unbelievable, making history again.
FULL-TIME: Tottenham 0-2 Man City
Tottenham 0-2 Man City
SUBSTITUTION: Tottenham 0-2 Man City
Tottenham 0-2 Man City
GOAL!!! Tottenham 0-2 Man City (Haaland 90+1′)
PENALTY TO MAN CITY!
WHAT A CHANCE! Tottenham 0-1 Man City
SUBSTITUTION: Tottenham 0-1 Man City
Tottenham 0-1 Man City
Tottenham 0-1 Man City
If City hold on here and win on Sunday they will clinch the league on the back of ten consecutive wins.
Last season it was 12. This has not traditionally been normal. City have normalised it. Remarkable.
Tottenham 0-1 Man City
Tottenham 0-1 Man City
Tottenham 0-1 Man City
BIG SAVE! Tottenham 0-1 Man City
YELLOW CARD: Tottenham 0-1 Man City (Kovacic)
SUBSTITUTION: Tottenham 0-1 Man City
Tottenham 0-1 Man City
YELLOW CARD: Tottenham 0-1 Man City (Romero)
Tottenham 0-1 Man City
OUCH! Tottenham 0-1 Man City
SUBSTITUTION: Tottenham 0-1 Man City
Tottenham 0-1 Man City
GOAL!!! Tottenham 0-1 Man City (Haaland 51′)
Tottenham 0-0 Man City
Tottenham 0-0 Man City
WHAT A SAVE! Tottenham 0-0 Man City
SECOND HALF: Tottenham 0-0 Man City
How are your nerves… Arsenal fans?
Even Rodri’s not at it…
Rodri clipping a ball straight out of play summed up City’s half.
Micah Richards: ‘One of the best saves I have seen all season’
It’s one of the best saves I have seen all season, wow.
Yet to get going
HALF-TIME: Tottenham 0-0 Man City
WHAT A BLOCK! Tottenham 0-0 Man City
Tottenham 0-0 Man City
Tottenham 0-0 Man City
Tottenham 0-0 Man City
Tottenham 0-0 Man City
YELLOW CARD: Tottenham 0-0 Man City (Bentancur)
Tottenham 0-0 Man City
Tottenham 0-0 Man City
We don’t say this often but….Man City are not playing terribly well. Question is: Are Spurs good enough to take advantage?
Tottenham 0-0 Man City
Tottenham 0-0 Man City
Tottenham 0-0 Man City
Tottenham 0-0 Man City
Tottenham 0-0 Man City
Pep Guardiola going mad at Mateo Kovacic – and then Kevin De Bruyne – after City get themselves in a muddle when they should’ve used a completely free Josko Gvardiol on the counter attack.
Tottenham 0-0 Man City
Tottenham 0-0 Man City
Spurs seem to have forgotten that Kyle Walker is playing.
WHAT A SAVE! Tottenham 0-0 Man City
Tottenham 0-0 Man City
Tottenham 0-0 Man City
Tottenham 0-0 Man City
Tottenham 0-0 Man City
Tottenham 0-0 Man City
Tottenham 0-0 Man City
Tottenham 0-0 Man City
KICK-OFF: Tottenham 0-0 Man City
‘Guardiola is wearing his lucky fisherman’s jumper’
Pep Guardiola is wearing his lucky fisherman’s jumper again. I hope it’s had a spin through the wash since that hot day at Fulham at the weekend.
Here come the teams!
Bad omen… for Arsenal
‘Progressive season for Spurs’
The end is near of what should still be seen as a progressive season for Spurs. Better football. Better league position. Hope. Not a bad return from Ange Postecoglou’s first season.
Ange Postecoglou: ‘We’re gonna have to be at our best’
One thing you have to do is concentrate on the football and not all the other stuff that’s been talked about. They’re (Manchester City) a top team. They’re always at their best at this time of the year, something we need to try and strive for.
We’re gonna have to be at our best. The thing for us is that, when we’ve taken it to the top teams this year, we haven’t always come out on top. We’ve given them a scare, and that’s what we’re trying to do today.
‘Wondering how City approach this’
Wondering how City approach this tonight. Do they contain and try to control the night early on, just to see what the atmosphere is like, or just go for it and try to get it done early on?
Can Tottenham still qualify for UCL?
Kyle Walker: ‘Need to treat this game as a final’
There is a lot on the line, we have had tough games here and it is going to be another tough game tonight. We need to treat this game as a final, which it is.
We have played in big games like this before, it’s about keeping your composure, making sure any slight mistake doesn’t happen, and go and score goals at the other end.
We will just go and be us, that is all we can ask for from the lads and us as a group of players. We will see what happens come the end of the game.
Gvardiol the goalscorer
Fan Comment
Steve, London: ‘We’ll definitely have a go at them tonight and hopefully take 3 points’ – Justin Baker, aged 6, Spurs captain.
Guardiola’s bogey team
Van de Ven at LB?
Man City Team News – Walker STARTS
Tottenham Team News – THREE changes
Jamie Carragher: ‘Crowd won’t take Spurs anywhere tonight’
Once that whistle is blown, you’re (as a player) giving everything in that game. But what won’t happen is, the crowd won’t take them anywhere tonight. If Spurs get anything from this game it will be all down to themselves.
City on a roll
What atmosphere will we get?
Jamie Carragher: ‘Spurs fans shouldn’t want their team to win tonight’
I can’t wait for it to start just to see what the atmosphere is like. This is not unique, it’s happened before, but I don’t think a Spurs fan should want their team to win tonight.
I’ve grown up in a city with a similar rivalry and if the boot was on the other foot I think Arsenal fans would be exactly the same.
Should Spurs fans want to win?
Ange Postecoglou: ‘I will never understand if someone wants their own team to lose’
I understand rivalry, I was part of one of the biggest ones in the world in the last couple of years with Celtic and Rangers. But I will never understand if someone wants their own team to lose.
That’s not what sport is about. It’s not what I love about the game. What I love more than anything is the competitiveness, challenging yourself to beat someone and coming out successful. Anything outside of that, it’s got nothing to do with sport.
If other people want to treat it that way, that they get pleasure from other people’s misery, that’s not how I’ve lived my life and how I perceive my role. My role is to bring success to this football club and I know 100 percent of Spurs supporters want us to win, to be successful, and win trophies. Winning will help us bring joy to 100 percent of Spurs supporters.
Conflicting emotions for Spurs
What’s at stake
Can Spurs aid bitter rivals title charge?
‘Title decider’ at Tottenham
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How it stands at the top
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SOFASCORE STATS: Tottenham 0-2 Man City
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Aston Villa qualify for the Champions League!
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FULL-TIME: Tottenham 0-2 Man City
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GOAL!!! Tottenham 0-2 Man City (Haaland 90+1′)
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PENALTY TO MAN CITY!
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GOAL!!! Tottenham 0-1 Man City (Haaland 51′)
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HALF-TIME: Tottenham 0-0 Man City
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KICK-OFF: Tottenham 0-0 Man City
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Man City Team News – Walker STARTS
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Tottenham Team News – THREE changes
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Should Spurs fans want to win?
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What’s at stake
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‘Title decider’ at Tottenham
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