Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 Manchester City: Premier League as it happened
Pep Guardiola's arrive in north London with 100% start to the season still intact.
- Tottenham end Manchester City's undefeated start to the season.
- Aleksander Kolarov own goal and Dele Alli effort put home side ahead before half-time.
- Spurs enjoying their best ever start to a Premier League season.
- They sit just a point off the top of the table after seven games.
Superb from Spurs. Without Harry Kane and Mousa Dembele, Mauricio Pochettino's side have ended Pep Guardiola's undefeated streak as Manchester City manager. Four of five Spurs players have been candidates for man of the match today, they were that good. They move to within a point of the summit of the Premier League.
Tottenham double their lead! After some more frenetic pressing in midfield, Spurs break forward with Son, Lamela and Alli going forward. Lamela's pass through for Alli on the edge of the D is intercepted but Son is onto the loose ball and slides a perfect pass through for England international who sweeps into the far corner. Superb assist from Son.
City want a penalty! Aguero, with his back to goal, reaches out to get his foot to a cross from Kolarov, but he goes down under a challenge from Vertonghen. Did he get to the ball first? Just.
Tottenham spring forward on the attack but Son is just offside as Lamela springs him clear. Deafened by the roar of the crowd, he continues to bear down on goal with the referee frantically blowing his whistle until play is eventually pulled back.
Oh Kolarov. Manchester City are behind in the league for the first time this season and it's one of their own men who has done the damage. Danny Rose whips in a terrific ball from the left that Stones opts to leave. The City full back gets himself in a right mess trying to lift the ball away from danger and instead knocks it past his own goalkeeper.
Brisk start from Tottenham and it almost pays off straight away. Eriksen and Walker combine neatly down the right, moving the ball inside to Son who brilliantly nutmegs his man before dancing into the box. From a tight angle, he blasts an ambitious effort on goal, but it's well wide. Inside the box, Dele Alli berates the South Korean for not sliding the ball back for him.
Six wins from six in the league, 10 from 11 in all competitions. Manchester City have been unstoppable this season, but Brendan Rodgers and Celtic found a way to repeatedly breach Pep Guardiola's defence last Wednesday.
The former Barcelona manager has responded by bringing John Stones back into his side this afternoon, but Mauricio Pochettino may feel there is something to exploit today.
Both Kyle Walker and Danny Rose have recovered from injuries to return at right-back and left-back respectively this afternoon, while Moussa Sissoko is also over a concussion. He returns on the right of an attacking three with Heung-Min Son preferred up front to Vincent Janssen, who drops to the bench.
John Stones returns at centre-half to partner Nicolas Otamendi, while Fernando and Fernandinho partner up in midfield. Jesus Navas comes in for the still-suspended Nolito.
Pep Guardiola opted to drop John Stones from his starting XI for the midweek thriller with Celtic but the England international is expected to return this afternoon. Kevin de Bruyne, Fabian Delph and Vincent Kompany are not ready for this afternoon, but Pep Guardiola is hopeful of having the trio back after the international break.
We have ten days [after Spurs] which will help us – we need most of them back. The same with Delph. I don't know – maybe two or three weeks they will be ready. I don't know if they will be ready for Everton or for Barcelona – we'll see next time.
"The injuries are not so, so tough as they seemed in the first impression. Usually a muscle injury is a month but we're going to wait and see."
After opting to remain in north London during the last international break instead of representing South Korea, Son Heung-Min has suddenly become Tottenham's most important player. The 24-year-old has five goals in five games this season and in the absence of Harry Kane and with Vincent Janssen still struggling, he will be key to Pochettino's plans today.
Team news: Manchester City
Kevin de Bruyne remains sidelined through injury while Nolito is still paying the price for the silly red card he was shown against Bournemouth. Vincent Kompany, who appeared to suffer a recurrence of his perennial hamstring problem in the EFL Cup win over Swansea, also remains out with Fabian Delph also unavailable.
Team news: Tottenham
Danny Rose has been out of action since suffering a hamstring injury while on international duty with England in early September but did return to training this week.
Mousa Dembele and Eric Dier have also missed games with hamstring problems but will be assessed ahead of kick off. Moussa Dembele meanwhile missed the victory over CSKA Moscow mid-week with a concussion, but could return today. Harry Kane remains sidelined.
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