Tottenham Hotspur vs Man City Match Analysis & Prediction
14/05/2024 10:00 pm
Supported by both halves of North London – although only for a matter of hours – Tottenham Hotspur can lend bitter rivals Arsenal a helping hand when they host Manchester City in Tuesday’s Premier League contest.
Ange Postecoglou’s side sent Burnley back down to the Championship through a 2-1 comeback victory on Saturday, not long after their visitors briefly recalimed top spot following a 4-0 thrashing of Fulham.
Just seven minutes after Jacob Bruun Larsen had opened the scoring, Spurs hit back through Pedro Porro – making amends for his role in Burnley’s strike – before another lauded defender in Micky van de Ven, Tottenham’s Player of the Season, finished like a veteran centre-forward to complete the turnaround.
Spurs’s victory saw the fifth-placed Lilywhites cut the deficit to fourth-placed Aston Villa down to four points, and their Champions League hopes will still be kicking by the time Tuesday rolls around if Liverpool glean at least a point at Villa Park on Monday.
Fighting back to beat Burnley means that Spurs have now rescued 25 points from losing positions in the 2023-24 Premier League, and the seemingly endless run of Tottenham home matches seeing both teams score now stands at 14 top-flight games.
Conceding the first goal in each of their last five matches does not bode well for a Tottenham side who may have mixed feelings about taking points off Man City, whose traditional end-of-season surge saw them finally bump Arsenal off the gold medal position on Saturday afternoon.
Josko Gvardiol came up with two of Man City’s four strikes at Fulham’s Craven Cottage base, where Phil Foden and Julian Alvarez also got in on the act – the latter calmly dispatched a penalty after Gvardiol passed up the opportunity to become the Premier League’s first hat-trick scoring defender.
Gvardiol unselfishly allowed penalty-taker Alvarez to fulfill his 12-yard duties, perhaps also taking City’s inferior goal difference into account, and the Citizens established a two-point advantage over Arsenal with their seventh straight Premier League win, but their formerly noisy neighbours could not do them a favour on Sunday.
Arsenal’s scrappy 1-0 victory over Manchester United took the Gunners back to top spot and re-established their one-point lead over the champions, who must prevail on Tuesday if they are to be in control of their title destiny on May 19.
However, another fresh page of club history could be written at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, as Man City have never won eight successive Premier League matches by at least two goals before, and they overcame Spurs 1-0 in North London in January’s FA Cup tie.
Nevertheless, the Premier League hoodoo still hangs over the men in sky blue, as they have only prevailed in one of their last five top-flight matches against Tottenham and have never won a Premier League game at Spurs’ new stadium, although some Lilywhites supporters may happily relinquish that record if it means to title parade for Arsenal.
Tottenham Hotspur vs. Man City Head to head
In the previous 151 meetings between these two teams, Spurs have claimed 58 victories while Man City have won 60, and they have drawn in 33. Man City have scored 235 goals and conceded 206 in the process.
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19/02/2022Manchester City2Tottenham Hotspur3Premier League
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19/01/2023Manchester City4Tottenham Hotspur2Premier League
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05/02/2023Tottenham Hotspur1Manchester City0Premier League
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03/12/2023Manchester City3Tottenham Hotspur3Premier League
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26/01/2024Tottenham Hotspur0Manchester City1FA Cup
Tottenham Hotspur Team News
Tottenham striker Richarlison was a surprise omission from the Brazil squad for the 2024 Copa America, although Postecoglou confirmed at the weekend that he had picked up a calf problem.
Richarlison will not be available for Spurs’ last two league games, joining Timo Werner (hamstring), Ben Davies (calf), Manor Solomon (knee), Ryan Sessegnon (thigh), Fraser Forster (ankle) and Destiny Udogie (thigh) on that list.
Tottenham Hotspur's Last 5 Matches
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13/04/2024Newcastle United4Tottenham Hotspur0Premier League
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28/04/2024Tottenham Hotspur2Arsenal3Premier League
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02/05/2024Chelsea2Tottenham Hotspur0Premier League
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05/05/2024Liverpool4Tottenham Hotspur2Premier League
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11/05/2024Tottenham Hotspur2Burnley1Premier League
Man City Team News
Only a quarter of the game had gone at Craven Cottage before Pep Guardiola had to pull Nathan Ake out of the match – the Dutchman’s injury has not been specified, but he was in visible discomfort.
Guardiola can negate the possible loss of Ake by simply recalling Kyle Walker and shifting Manuel Akanji or the returning John Stones to a central role.
Man City's Last 5 Matches
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20/04/2024Manchester City1Chelsea0FA Cup
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25/04/2024Brighton & Hove Albion0Manchester City4Premier League
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28/04/2024Nottingham Forest0Manchester City2Premier League
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04/05/2024Manchester City5Wolverhampton Wanderers1Premier League
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11/05/2024Fulham0Manchester City4Premier League
Tottenham Hotspur vs. Man City: Odds and Predictions
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