This important match is taking place now. I didn't enjoy the first 325 minutes. But I don't think I missed much. Because both teams are playing very carefully today.
Tottenham played very badly in the Premier League last season. Although the team is the Europa League Champions. But staying away from the relegation zone in the Premier League was a big challenge for them. The team was in 17th place in the points table. Tottenham won 3-0 against Burnley in their first match this season. On the other hand, City won 4-0 against Wolves in their first match.
Tottenham scored the first goal of the match in the 37th minute of the match. The interesting thing is that this is Tottenham's first on target shots. So far, Tottenham players have only made 2 shots
Tottenham had only one shot on target, but City weren't much better, they had two shots on target, three shots for two teams in the whole half is too few. And here's the second goal from Tottenham at the very end of the first half, well I expected there to be goals in the first half, but I didn't think both would be against City. With this kind of play City are unlikely to be able to equalize, Guardiola needs to change something.
The match ended 2- 0 in the end. Manchester city failed to score any goals in their home match and lost by 2 goals. In the last season , we have seen Manchester City's inconsistent performance. This season, the fans were expecting a comeback from the team. Despite performing well in the first match , the team performed very badly against tottenham today. Manchester City players had 61% ball possession in the entire match. However, they managed to take only 10 shots. I cannot call this a good performance at all. Today, the performance of Manchester City's defense as well as their attacking players was weak.
Glad I was busy and didn't bet on this one. Manchester City surely are the better team but for a win, they need to score. It's where tottenham was ahead of Manchester City.
There's not much expectations from the Manchester City team this year too but losing to Tottenham in home ground is a new low for the team.
Tottenham stays as the group leader for the time being. Not much exiting matches today but Arsenal is looking to have another win against Leeds and with enough goal difference, they'd rise to the number one spot. Arsenal would be on the top spot at least for 3 days before Liverpool plays their 2nd game. I'm hoping Arsenal to win the season but it would be tough for them.