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  • Spurs Win

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  • City Win

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  • Score Draw

    Votes: 36 18.8%

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Bulletspur

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SPURS 2-0 MAN CITY
Bergwijn, Son​

Spurs: Lloris (C), Aurier, Alderweireld, Sanchez, Tanganga, Winks, Lo Celso, Dele , Bergwijn (Lamela), Son, Lucas (Dier).
Subs: Gazzaniga, Vertonghen, Sessegnon, Gedson.

Man City: Ederson, Walker, Otamendi, Fernandinho (C), Zinchenko, Rodrigo, Gundogan, De Bruyne, Mahrez, Sterling, Aguero.
Subs: Bravo, G Jesus, Bernardo, D Silva, Cancelo, Foden, Garcia.

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One change to the team that faced Southampton in the FA Cup last week, as new signing Steven Bergwijn comes in for fellow recent arrival Gedson.

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Referee: -------- Mike Dean

TEAM FORM -- Spurs LWDWD ------- WDWWL ----- (All Competitions)

In all competitions, City have lost 3 of their last 5 away games against us (W2), losing their most recent game in April 2019 in the Champions League. They have won their last 5 Premier League (PL) away games in North London (vs Arsenal and us) - as many as they had in their first 40 such games in the competition (W5 D10 L25). No team has ever won 6 consecutive top flight games against us and Arsenal.

Man City have scored in each of their last 23 PL away games, since a 0-2 loss at Chelsea in December 2018 - Only Arsenal (27 in November 2002) and Man Utd (24 in August 2002) have had longer such runs in the competition's history.

Man City's defender Aymeric Laporte has ended on the winning side in 42 of his 49 PL appearances - the record for wins in the first 50 games for any player is 42, shared by Drogba, Robben and Edersen. Kevin De Bruyne became the first player in PL history to provide 15+ assist in three different campaigns (15 in 2019 - 20, 16 in 2017-18 and 18 in 2016-17). De Bruyne has averaged an assist every 180 minutes in the PL, the best such ration in the competition' history

We are winless in 6 PL games against City (D2 L4) since a 2-0 win in October 2016 at White Hart Lane. Only Everton (26) have we won more PL matches than we have against Man City (23), 7 of our last 10 PL wins against City have come on home soil. We have lost two of our six home league matches under Jose (W4), as many as we lost in our final 15 home games under Poch (W9 D4).

This is the 23rd meeting in all competitions between Jose and Pep. Jose has lost 10 games Pep, 4 more than any other manager. Dele has had a hand in 9 goals in 16 games under Jose in all competitions (6 goals, 3 assists), three times as many as he had registered under Poch this season (2 goals, 1 assist in 10 appearances)

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hellava_tough

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Results were pretty good this Saturday for us

Time to go out there tomorrow and get the 3pts. Come on Jose, show us a tactical masterclass and earn your £15mill (y)
 
TropicalYid

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Im feeling optimistic.
The rebuild has begun. Fresh faces in the squad.
Results today went our way.
Just need to win this and we are back in the race for top 4.
 
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Mattspurs1982 said:
Lloris, JT, Toby, Sanchez, Aurier, Winks, N’Dom, GLC, Alli, Stevie B, Son as CF (Lucas benched)
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Not gonna happen (lucas benched) I doubt. Think Son should be playing through the middle though, not sure why he keeps persisting with Moura in that position.
 
bubble07

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Every predicted line up I've seen doesn't have Ndombele. I'll be royally pissed off if he doesnt play tomorrow
 
davidmatzdorf

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TropicalYid said:
Im feeling optimistic.
The rebuild has begun. Fresh faces in the squad.
Results today went our way.
Just need to win this and we are back in the race for top 4.
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"The rebuild" began last summer, when we acquired Ndombele, Lo Celso and Sessegnon.

We have a few players whose pace and fitness have faded a few years earlier than one might have expected: Wanyama, Vertonghen and Rose being the obvious examples. Winks is learning to play with chronic pain. Dier was chronically ill and is struggling to get back to full fitness. We sold Trippier without replacing him, leaving us with only one right back, who prefers attacking to defending. Our sweeper-goalkeeper has been injured for months, which has capsized our defensive formation.

"The rebuild" could have started a year earlier and we would still have had these problems. We've been in transition. We're having a bit of a lost season. There's nothing especially significant about signing Gedson and Bergwijn last month. It wasn't panic buying or a "rebuild", it was just the usual business of buying talented players in their early 20s who will probably be assets in future seasons, when they have accustomed themselves to English football.

As Lo Celso has now visibly done.
 
Bulletspur

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davidmatzdorf said:
"The rebuild" began last summer, when we acquired Ndombele, Lo Celso and Sessegnon.

We have a few players whose pace and fitness have faded a few years earlier than one might have expected: Wanyama, Vertonghen and Rose being the obvious examples. Winks is learning to play with chronic pain. Dier was chronically ill and is struggling to get back to full fitness. We sold Trippier without replacing him, leaving us with only one right back, who prefers attacking to defending. Our sweeper-goalkeeper has been injured for months, which has capsized our defensive formation.

"The rebuild" could have started a year earlier and we would still have had these problems. We've been in transition. We're having a bit of a lost season. There's nothing especially significant about signing Gedson and Bergwijn last month. It wasn't panic buying or a "rebuild", it was just the usual business of buying talented players in their early 20s who will probably be assets in future seasons, when they have accustomed themselves to English football.

As Lo Celso has now visibly done.
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Party pooper! :(
 
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