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That’s what happens when you have a manager with game awareness and tactical know-how

Because everyone has their heads up man citys backside.

Yeah but spurs have injuries….🤣🤣- 4th loss in a row incoming and they dont even play mid week hahahaha

Arent spurs missing key defensive players tho? I love to rag them on but spurs arent good when theyre not carried by their stars

Newcastle at St James too where every team including PSG has been battered so far. Their whole xG was created by their “goal”.

City setup narrow af against us, I'm really not sure how they expected to break us down like that but it wasn't that great a defensive performance. The numbers are always gonna be low when the match is so slow and cagey.

Or that our only loss was a 1 nil defeat away.

They’re a different team without Rodri

We are massive. We have the best defense in Europe and I won't hear otherwise. Desperately want Timber tho because Zinny is a liability lately.

They score 2 against city.

Edit. 3 lmao. They are even better.

I appreciate our defensive efforts this season but to be fair, Spurs have almost half of the starting 11 out due to injuries. 3 of them being in the back. Like. You can’t expect the bench to hold up City.

I agree, but it might be a bit different at the Etihad. Still they look pretty vulnerable in defense when they go full on attack, so I think we can beat them there.

We went punch for punch (block for block technically) with City and came out on top. And it was the first time I felt our teams were even.

But de Bruyne coming back will free City so we have to be ready to win every remaining game.

Anything we do that’s good isn’t talked about enough. Take MoTD last night, all they talked about is what wolves did wrong vs our two outstanding goals

Everyone in the league has basically forgotten that we beat city, wolves are brought up every time but not us

They’re playing with 4 full backs in their back line mate

Tbf the way they play and especially the players they got in CB today doesn't help haha

I'm still hoping they somehow someway steal a point or more today

Edit: Ange is genuinely cooking can't lie.

With that team and those CBs playing like that? Scoring twice? Mad.

Definitely lucky they didn't concede more but they play silky stuff ngl.

They'll mess up as always ofc but hopefully they don't lose in these last few minutes...

Edit 2: lol Bissouma had a stinker tonight. "Better than Rice" my ass

Edit 3: nicely done chickens. Nicely done.

I mean with an Emerson Royal CB masterclass from Brave Ange any team would cut through them

Spurs are trying to play attacking football without CBs though…

Our defence is the best in the league this season easily. Gabriel, Saliba and Rice are monsters.

We’re doing it to Liverpool too, just watch us.

Safe to say Spurs are not going to win anything with this approach. Exciting to watch but way too porous at the back.

City are the strongest home team on planet earth. Not fair to compare them at home vs away as they were vs us

This game is so boring.

Previous city vs spurs games were exciting when they used to sit back and no give an inch to city. But they are so open, their midfield lines are so high to defense, it's scary. It's like last season city cut us open at etihad.

Yeah but Spurs are just so so brave.

I don’t see the point of the comparisons in the comments.

We’re obviously strong defensively this season, but it’s not like it we’re in a position to brag considering our record v City after beating them in one match at home.

“This game is boring” - yeah, so was ours against City.

Spurs have the best record against City and they’ve got a significant chunk of their starting XI out - it’s the equivalent of Rice, Saliba, Gabriel, Tomi, Ode & then some - at the same time including mid-serious injuries. Both times played poorly too and City weren’t at their peak. Under those circumstances (consider if we were in that position), 3 goals against City & limiting them to just 2 (& zero for Halaand) and drawing overall for a point at the start of a rebuild is a solid effort.

Anyway, that’s the second time this season that Simon Hooper has made a howler of a ref decision against the team playing Spurs.

Spurs look abysmal, they will compete with the likes of Chelsea and Man U with this team

Besides that shit Spurs team. Countless time that Emerson guy lost his shit. Thank god we went for Benny instead