Premier League
Manchester City 2-3 Tottenham: Avengers Kane knew City and set the league on fire
Led by a shocking Harry Kane who scored the winner at 90+5′, Tottenham knocked Manchester City 3-2 to the canvas and reignited the title fight.
The fight for the Premier League title is on again! Tottenham beat City 3-2 in the top game of the 26th game at the Etihad on Saturday night and put Liverpool back in the cup with the difference between the Liverpool Reds and the Manchester Blues having to be 6 points and less suits Klopp’s players.
At the forefront of Spurs’ incredible win in Manchester (after beating 1-0 in the London premiere they celebrated a double against Citizens this year) was Harry Kane, while Pep Guardiola failed to do so last summer acquire – despite the €150m offered by his team – and… get penalized.
The England captain had one of the best performances of his career in a game that meant a lot to him, scoring for the first time against Guardiola’s side and giving the Londoners a huge win with his goal in the ’90s’, in their attempt to win the to exit Champions League via 4th place.
Impressively, Tottenham have tasted the joy of victory after losing three in a row (the last two at home to Southampton and Wolves), while City on the other hand suffered only their 2nd defeat (the first was to Crystal Palace) at home in a knew a total of 13 games (10 wins and 1 draw the other results for the champion).
The game
The game in Manchester caught fire from the first minutes and Tottenham took care of it by beating the champions in the 4th minute, with Sean getting behind the opposition defense and feeding in Kulusewski, who had no problems, at just the right moment Score a goal in front of a defenseless home.
City then tried to react and had a shot with Gudogan in the 20th minute but needed an error from Loris, who lost the ball through his hands after a powerful cross from the left to level the score at 1-1 with a shot from Guidogan waiting (he scored 5 goals in 9 games against Tottenham)
With that result, both teams went into the dressing room at the break, with City having possession in the second half and pressing for the opening ten minutes, but Tottenham were much more efficient and substantial, finding nets with fervent desire in recent years, Harry Kane.
Antonio Conte’s players circulated the ball quickly and it reached Sean from the left, who set up a cross to Kane’s head, with the England captain executing Anderson with a shot on the move and making it 2-1 for Spurs with his first goal Career against a team of Pep Guardiola.
Minutes later, the Londoners made it 3-1 with Kane, who was defeated in a four-on-four with Anderson, and then found the net again, but his joy didn’t last long as the VAR intervened and the goal didn’t count as it stands Kulusewski building up the offside phase.
This phase kept City ‘alive’ and gave Guardiola’s players the power to partially salvage the game, which they seemed to be able to do just before the final. When an outstretched hand from Romero in the Tottenham area sent the referee up on the monitor, who then showed the ball and put Mahrez 2-2 up with an unimaginable punch that left Loris no room to react .
But where some believed the champion’s heart would speak and the fall would take place, the huge class of Kane and the metal Conte begins to give his team spoke when Kulusewski took a cross from the right in the 90+ 5′ and Kane , putting the whole city in the net, scoring with a terrible header and signing Tottenham’s huge 3-2 win in the Champions’ Den.
MANCHESTER CITY: Anderson, Walker, Dias, Laport, Cancello, De Bruyne, Rodri, Guidogan, Bernardo Silva, Fontaine, Sterling (68′ Mahrez)
TOTENAM: Loris, Romero, Dyer, Davis, Emerson (83′ Doherty), Bentancourt, Hoiberg, Sessions (94′ Sanchez), Kulusewski, Kane, Sean (80′ Moura)
The results of the 26th game:
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The program of the 27th race:
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