From Tottenham Hotspur Stadium – a single Erling Haaland -Tor was the close victory for Manchester City against Tottenham Hotspur on Wednesday evening.
“You will try to play an expansive,” warned Poseteclou about the game, “and we will try to do the same.” Both teams fulfilled their billing and laid the foundations for a typical entertaining duel between two bold – and chronically faulty – outfits.
How Haaland was the only player who found the network of a pleasant back and forth competition with 23 combined shots will remain a mystery.
How the game unfolds
Pep Guardiola turned to the most energetic 11 players that he was available, and stood up with two wings in the form of Jeremy Doku and Savinho, whose first (and second and second and third) intended to drive to the Byline and to dismiss a cut in the box. Both fleet foot strikers struck their opposite defenders in the 12 minutes that came before Haaland’s opening goal.
At the end of a liquid train that started deep in half of the city, the chestnut brown visitors swept diagonally across the field and presented the ball at the feet of Doku, whose cross was kindly defused that Haaland had devoured a tap-in.
Tottenham had started brightly, wins that followed by three wins and kept a slightly frenzied zeal after the case. But City took over a touch of control that was so clearly missing this season and had a flood of opportunities that Haaland and Savinho had conspired between them. The reflexes of Guglielmo Vicario and the collective booklet of the visitors were responsible for the random 1-0 deficit during the break. An unimpressed crowd still welcomed the half -time interval with a gust of Boos.
The steamed atmosphere in a brisk night in North -London began to crack again when Pedro Porro found space in the last third to stroll almost exclusively in Dokus Slipstream after an opening of 45 minutes.
Postecoglou used the dramatic shifting of the impulse – now Tottenham was amazed at the use of the belly planting board with a four -time substitution. Within seconds after her arrival, Spence Pape Sarr, his replacement colleague, has a clear sight of Tor, which he was well wide.
Son Heung-Min, a further introduction in the second half, had a low, bubbling effort, which was cultivated by Ederson late, as a Spurs in search of a winner, which they probably justified after the break.
After a painfully lengthy Var review, Haaland finally decided that Haaland had clearly acted with the ball before he had come into the net in the second half in the second half, Sarr found time to get out ten meters from Ederson’s enchanting goal.
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“Obviously we will miss him,” Guardiola sighed, after seeing only two shots against Liverpool without her Talismanic striker last weekend -the lowest record of the club in a Premier League game in 11 months. Haaland only took 12 minutes to test Vicario twice twice on Wednesday and to find a way to the Italian with his second effort.
The return of No. 9 sent a wave of new positivity through a fan base that needs a thrust, but only a few would have been as enthusiastic as Jeremy Doku. The slippery Belgian twisted Alexander-Arnold from the inside and forward last Sunday, but had no one to cross. Haaland soon repaired this – even if he missed most of these opportunities.
It has been a few long, hard months since Posetecoglou was treated with luxury. He could not be tried in the near future to do it again.
Wilson Odobert started his first start since September, while son Heung-Min watched the first half of the bank. Dejan Kulusevski was appointed for the second time since August under the replacement pieces, but Spurs missed the Spence the most.
Doku had his way with right -back Pedro Porro, and the Destiny Udogie was not much better on the opposite flank. Tottenham’s returning Italian stayed on his knees, two downsized hands from a prayer position, from one of Savinho’s body bread. Udogie was so often Bamboozled that he changed his boots ten minutes before the half -time pipe. It didn’t help much.
The sight that Spence was cut at an hour triggered one of the loudest cheers of the night. The Buccaneering foreign defender was part of a four-time substitution with 25 minutes, which also included Kulusevski, son and Pape Sarr. Three of the four arrivals either created or played on the goal during their limited participation. This indicated the effects they could have enjoyed if Poseteclou had used its strongest list from the start.
Haaland’s number of contact was fetishized beyond any recognition – but even the minimalist Norwegian would have blushed with the ball in the middle of the week at Mathy’s Tels. Tottenham’s winter transfer coup scored his only shot in the sixth minute and ended the game with only five attempts on a pass.
Against a city team that was barely defensive – or even flirted with the idea – tel hardly imagined, let alone a threat.
It is important to notice that Tel is that Tel is still a teenager who bravely waded his first month in a foreign country with a team that was unmistakable until recently without autumn. However, he may have to have more than 12 touches in the future.
“We handled teams with teams who [mark] Man-to-Man really good, “emphasized Guardiola this week and ignored the opposite catalog of evidence Rundheraus. In this calendar year, Paris Saint-Germain’s Frontfuss press converted the city’s backline.
Tottenham ran around the last third with the nervous energy of an over -caffeine child and left a large place in the city in which the first wave of pressure was interrupted.
Instead of complicated passport schemes, City found its way through Tottenham’s press with the quality -Guardiola more than any other. Dribbling. Omar Marmoush received a direct pass directly from Eöder, who fell away from Kevin Danso from central defender to start the move that led to Haaland’s start.
Haaland, Doku and Savinho also pirted from a number of boots that snap on the heels to create opportunities that they all changed to waste.
It was a risky approach – a false spin would be open in the transition, a fact that Tottenham easily discovered after the interval – but Guardiola was not in the mood to give up his principles. As he warned of the game: “We won’t try to adapt.”