The current PL top 3 are such that they will back themselves to play their continued way against all comers, have the great majority of goal-scoring opportunities, and what few the opposition get will not be enough unless operating at clinical levels. Well, if Kane and Son are in your team, the collective clinical coefficient is a lot closer to 100% than 50, And so it was (by my reckoning) : - Kane : opportunities = 4, scored = 2, failed = 1, disallowed = 1 - Son : opportunities = 2, scored = 1, failed = 1, disallowed = 0 Now if you recall last season, Spurs did Citeh at WHL in similar style. Then Chelsky away was up not long after. But rather than that game going the way of all the encounters this season, Chelsky were so scared of the Kane-Son interplay on the counter, that they held players closer to the halfway line. The result being that when a Chelsky attack broke down, there was more space (and time) for the Spurs defence to actually push out and start an attack rather than the "rinse and repeat" clearances when the opposition is camped in your own final third.
And the winner of the "don't think we're gonna see him going forward too much" category is ... Ben Davies. < take a bow, son >
Not quite up there with Pep celebrating the CL tie winner in our Qtr final down by the corner flag only for VAR to interrupt it.
I keep wanting to give that 4th official the benefit of the doubt, but he is definitely pissed off initially when Kane scores before remembering who he is and how many cameras will be on him.
Extended highlights, in case anyone hasn't quite seen enough: Walker got a lot of stick for this game, but he saved them from the ball over the top so many times.
The funniest thing that night was the camera crew talking to two City fans who left to avoid the crush straight after Stirling scored. When asked how gutted they were that City were out they started saying "no ...we're through"... they had left before the VAR decision. When they realised their reaction was priceless
While we await that ... "City's 15-match unbeaten run was ended in added time by a smash-and-grab Tottenham at the Etihad. The visitors, playing almost exclusively on the counter-attack, struck early on and though Ilkay Gundogan equalised before half-time, went ahead again after the break through Harry Kane. But in a frantic finish, a penalty by Riyad Mahrez in the 92nd minute of the game looked to have rescued a point for City, only for Kane to dramatically add another three minutes later - the goal that settled the contest 3-2 in Tottenham's favour." ... From the Citeh official extended highights vid (I give the commentators a "3" on the Jimmy Liddel scale) .
Absolutely. There’s definitely been recent victories against City where we’ve ridden our luck (like the first game of this season) but this one was fully deserved. Conte got the plan right and we executed very well, they scored from one of our few serious errors.
