Spurs v Manchester City: Gut Feelings

Manchester Metropolis journey to bogey staff Spurs on Sunday afternoon, hoping for a victory that can preserve them within the title hunt. The Blues fell seven factors behind Arsenal after the Gunners gained 4-0 at Leeds on Saturday, and something lower than three factors on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Sunday will depart Pep Guardiola’s title hopes in jeopardy.

Though Metropolis have come again from worse deficits prior to now, defeat in North London, coupled with Arsenal’s good kind, will depart them with a troublesome means again. And with the annual defeat at Anfield on the horizon, the Blues have to take three factors from the Spuds right now.

Spurs have being doing issues that solely Spurs can do. Their league kind is ridiculously poor, having did not win in 5 matches and solely profitable seven all season. But within the Champions League, they in some way completed fourth, dropping only one match. It’s the type of Jekyll and Hyde performances that leaves the Spurs hierarchy questioning whether or not or to not sack he supervisor or preserve him in place searching for European glory.

Spurs new stadium is a spot the place Metropolis dread going, nevertheless, they’ve gained the final two league matches there with out conceding a aim. Hopefully, the Blues will make it three on the bounce right now.

As regular, our staff are right here to offer us their views and opinions on how the match will go. Right here’s what we predict this week.

Actual troublesome match vs a often troublesome rival. Spurs in league play is a small pet whereas in UCL they’ve been mild out. Metropolis ought to win, however we now have seen how they fare vs Spurs in latest matches. Give me the narrowest of wins. 2-1.

Tottenham away is a bogey fixture, and Thomas Frank is a bogey supervisor for Pep’s Metropolis.

However this season, they’ve been horrible, and Frank is actually a useless man strolling, pretty much as good as his ends in Europe have been.

I feel Metropolis ought to win – except they play like they did in opposition to Manchester United and Bodo Glimt.

Tottenham 0-3 Manchester Metropolis

What to make of this one. The Spuds are an enigma. 14th within the Prem, but they completed 4th within the UCL League Section. Metropolis, too, have had some shockers of late. The Bodo/Glimt loss appears just a little higher with them making it by to the knockouts, however yikes. With Semenyo and Guehi within the squad I anticipate Metropolis’s finest. A visit to Spurs has sometimes been a horror present for the Manc Blues, nevertheless. So… right here’s a guess.

Very troublesome match. My head is saying it’ll be a draw, however my coronary heart goes for a win and saying 1-0 Metropolis. I’m going to go together with my head and go for a draw.

How did we do in opposition to Galatasaray

I’ve by no means been so nervous for a Champions League match as I used to be on Wednesday. Metropolis’s match completed and all of it hinged on Actual Madrid’s end result at Benfica. In fact, they needed to have like half a day’s value of damage time, simply to depart us all on edge, however we made it.

Saul, Will and Thomas appear to have conspired for Wednesday’s end result, all going for 3-1, whereas Pete went for a tentative 1-0. All of them get further factors for the proper aim distinction, which implies Pete’s keep on the prime of the desk was temporary.