please log in to view this image Manchester City host Tottenham Hotspur at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday 18th October 2014 (KO 12:45) in the 8th round of Premier League matches in the 2014-15 season. City come into the match in second place in the Premier League on 14 points with Spurs in sixth place on 11 points. This will be the 149th time the two teams have met. The first meeting came on 16th January 1909 in the FA Cup 1st round (today's 3rd round) at Hyde Road in Ardwick (City's original name) in a match which Spurs won 4-3. The first League meeting came in the First Division in December 1910 at White Hart Lane and resulted in a 1-1 draw. Walter Tull, who was the first black outfield footballer to play League football scored Tottenham's goal. City won the reverse fixture in January 1911 2-1. All the League meetings between Spurs and City up to season 1934-35 took place in the First Division. The clubs were drawn together in the 1913-14 FA Cup 2nd round with City wining 2-1 at Hyde Road (City would move to Maine Road in 1923 and stay there for the next 80 years) and also met in the 1921-22 FA Cup 3rd round with FA Cup holders Tottenham beating City 2-1 at White Hart Lane. The only League meetings between the clubs outside the Top Flight took place either side of the Second World War with City winning both Second Division matches in the 1938-39 season and taking three points out of four off Spurs in the Second Division matches played in 1946-47. Spurs and City resumed their Top Flight meetings in the 1951-52 season. The clubs contested the 1956 FA Cup Semi-Final at Villa Park with City winning 1-0 with a goal scored by Bobby Johnstone. City would go on to win the FA Cup that season, beating Birmingham City 3-1 in the Final at Wembley. Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City contested the centenary FA Cup Final in 1981. The match finished in a 1-1 draw after extra time after Tommy Hutchison had put City ahead but also scored an unfortunate own goal. The replay was the first to be played at Wembley and Spurs won 3-2 with a brace from Ricky Villa and a goal from Garth Crooks. City goals were scored by Steve MacKenzie and Kevin Reeves. Ricky Villa's second goal was voted Goal of the Century and the match is one of the best remembered Finals of all-time. The first of three Football League Cup meetings came in the 1992 3rd Round with Spurs winning 1-0 at Maine Road with a Vinny Samways goal. Tottenham also won the other two matches - a 4th Round match in 2003 3-1 and a 5th round match in 2007 2-0. City had an amazing comeback in the 2004 FA Cup 4th Round replay at White Hart Lane after going three goals down to goals from Ledley King, Robbie Keane and Christian Ziege in the first half. City, who had been reduced to ten men after Joey Barton received a second yellow card, scored four second half goals from Sylvain Distin, Paul Bosvelt, Shaun Wright-Phillips and Jonathan Macken to win a memorable game 4-3. Both Spurs and City were founder-members of the Premier League, although City have only competed in 17 of the 22 seasons played in the competition so far, while Spurs have been one of seven ever-present clubs. Spurs have generally had the upper hand during this era with twenty wins to City's eight wins and five matches drawn. The 65 points Spurs have taken off City is second only to the points taken off Everton. In 2009-10, Spurs did the 'double' over City with a 3-0 win at the Lane with goals from Nico Kranjcar (2) and Jermain Defoe followed by a vital 1-0 end of season win at Eastlands, which secured fourth place and Champions League football for Spurs thanks to a Peter Crouch goal. The 2010-11 fixtures featured an opening day of the season match at White Hart Lane which finished in a 0-0 draw and a late season game at Eastlands which City won 1-0 thanks to a Peter Crouch own goal. During the summer of 2011, Spurs secured the services of Manchester City's Togo striker Emmanuel Adebayor on a season's loan. The match at White Hart Lane in August 2011 ended in a comprehensive 5-1 win to Manchester City with Bosnian striker Edin Dzeko scoring four goals for the visitors, who were 2-0 up at half-time. Sergio Aguero also scored for City while Tottenham's goal came from Younes Kaboul. The game at Etihad Stadium in January 2012 resulted in a 3-2 win for Manchester City. After a goalless first half, City scored twice through Samir Nasri and Joleon Lescott before Spurs made things level with goals from Jermain Defoe on the hour mark and Gareth Bale five minutes later. But a last minute penalty from Mario Balotelli secured the points for the home side. Emmanuel Adebayor made his move permanent to Spurs during the summer of 2012. The teams met in Manchester in November 2012 and a Steven Cauker header put Spurs ahead after 21 minutes. City equalised through Sergio Aguero in the 65th minute and substitute Edin Dzeko secured the three points for the home side two minutes before the match ended. Spurs beat City 3-1 in April 2013 with Clint Dempsey, Jermain Defoe & Gareth Bale all scoring for Spurs and Samir Nasri scoring for City. Jesus Navas scored in the opening minute to put City ahead at the Etihad in November 2013 and Sandro put through his own goal on 34 minutes. Sergio Aguero scored in the 41st minute to give City a 3-0 lead at half-time. He added another goal five minutes after the break and Alvaro Negredo scored City's fifth in the 55th minute. Jesus Navas completed the scoring in the last minute for a throroughly comprehensive 6-0 City win. The game at White Hart Lane in January 2014 also saw a 5-1 City thrashing of Spurs with Aguero, Yaya Toure, Dzeko, Jovetic and Kompany all on the score sheet while Etienne Capoue scored Spurs only goal. Overall, Spurs have won 58 games, City have won 56 games and the remaining 34 matches played have been drawn. please log in to view this image Complete Results of Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester City Matches 1909-2014 please log in to view this image They Played for Spurs & City.... Emmanuel Adebayor Clive Allen (Player with both clubs, Spurs development manager) Jamie Atwell Kevin Bond (City player, Spurs asst manager) Ivor Broadis Michael Brown Jock Chaplin Vedran Corluka Bill Felton Márton Fülöp Foster Hedley Chris Jones Neil McNab Bobby Mimms Joe Moffatt John Sainty (Spurs player, City coach) Bert Sproston Alex Steel Paul Stewart Perry Suckling (City player, Spurs coach) Ben Thatcher Paul Walsh Charlie Williams Clive Wilson Alex Young please log in to view this image Tottenham Hotspur Premier League Player's Squad Numbers 1993-94 to 2014-15 Manchester City Premier League Player's Squad Numbers 1993-94 to 2014-15 please log in to view this image please log in to view this image
Thanks for the early thread of your usual extremely high standard, 6061. Paul Stewart making his standard appearance is a bonus! This is going to be an extremely tough fixture, though it might help us that City have a very quick turnaround before they play CSKA in Moscow on the Tuesday. It's a game that they really have to get something out of, so they may be tempted to leave a couple of players out or be slightly distracted in their buildup. I think that we have to go with the tactics that got us a point at The Emirates and try to hit them on the break. Stoke won using similar methods. An early goal would utterly screw us, but it's our best shot. We simply aren't good enough to go toe-to-toe with them and get a win.
Chadli with as many goals (and an assist to boot!) as Aguero and Lamela with more assists than David Silva
For once I think we can look forward to this, the points we've picked up so far have been a little disappointing but the distance off 4th(+1gd) represents a steady start and the performance of the teams we expect to be around leaves us in quite a comfortable situation. If we turn up and play like we did against Arsenal there's every chance we can come away with something and that's not something we could have said playing the best teams last season, particularly away from home. We do need to sharpen up some of our passing and Adebayor needs to put in a shift but the way City have been playing so far we can definitely get at them. None of this "City are the best team on the planet" talk that we heard from Sherwood last season, we should go into the game feeling that there's points up for grabs here, just like everyother game of the season.
That goal difference in the Premier League era is a bit crazy isn't it. We've beaten them 11 more times yet the GD is just +3! I mean we all know why it's like that but a crazy stat nonetheless.
Chadli will score, he let Soton off over the weekend after hitting the post and so he'll be raring to go when we face City, especially once he bags a brace or hat trick for Belgium over the international break. Lamela will also want his first Spurs League goal and so both Zabaleta and Clichy will be in for a torrid afternoon. This all on top of the typically sublime Viking Eriksen and the fired up Adebayor, who I'm also expecting to score and do a knee slide all round the Etihad Stadium Team to beat City: Lloris, Dier, Kaboul, Vertonghen, Rose Capoue, Dembele Lamela, Eriksen, Chadli Ade City 1-3 Spurs COYS!!!
What are you ingesting and where can I find some? Lamela also has three assists in about 90 minutes in the cups. Nobody took much notice of Eriksen last year, despite the fact that his goals and assists were better than Ozil, and very similar to Ramsey and Silva. I think they only have two goals between them because some kind of a ban on long range shooting, at least from Eriksen, was only lifted against Saints. Given our team's talents and lack of them in the scoring department, I'd encourage those two and Chadli to bomb away anytime they're anywhere near the box and have an open lane. Of course, everyone on both sides predicted Chadli would lead both teams in scoring when the two teams met. After a miserable three games, we're now two games into a sequence where almost any of us would have taken three points, and we already have four. A draw is a lot to hope for, but it doesn't seem a pipe dream as it would have last year. I wish Naughton hadn't gotten hurt, as I thought he was important against Arsenal and would have been again against City. Dier is a very good player, but he's not a right back. I was asking myself whether I would take a 3-2 loss in this one...and the answer is maybe, especially if Lamela, Eriksen and/or Ade get the goals.
Yep! When Ade is on form, he can do anything he wants, SD. It's a rare condition called Pochettitis. Extremely contagious but has very positive side effects
I think we could see Lamela not starting as he has a lot of travelling to do in the international break but I guess we will see in time how much that takes out of him. The big question is whether we go for the slightly more counter-attack orientated setup we saw at the Emirates, or off the back of using the pressing system much better against Southampton we look to continue our development along that path against City, who are of course an entirely different proposition to Arsenal or Southampton. I feel that they will find a way through us if we try and soak up pressure and counter-attack, especially as we don't look like having a proper RB, so I think we should go for the pressing option, although this obviously runs the risk of getting us a big loss if City play fast enough to escape it, as Liverpool did against us at WHL.
The real question is how many of our first team have birthdays before this game? if the club makes a big show of wishing them all a happy birthday, perhaps that will send Yaya Toure into having another public tanty and greatly unsettle the City team as a result.
What a big richard that guy is. Perhaps as well as goal of the season there should be diva of the season or similar award.
Perhaps we could have our Belgian contingent invite him for a game of Settlers of Catan? please log in to view this image
Chadli and Lloris are injury doubts for this game, apparently. Our only two players showing real form. Great.
Kaboul and vertongen are in good form...as is kane, mason, rose and naughton ... so it ain't all bad. But who would have thought that losing Chadli would be a serious problem for us? Glad he is showing his worth to the team
I would hope Kane starts in Chadli's place. He's been scoring at an excellent clip, had the winning assist against West Ham, and is certainly the nearest thing we have to the new Bale. Dembele is a thought, since he looked effective the only time I remember him playing on the left, against Liverpool, the year before last. The only other choice which makes sense to me is Soldado, but I don't think I would trust him to track back. Lennon's the best choice defensively, but he'll add zippo to the attack on the left.
