please log in to view this image Tottenham Hotspur host Manchester City at White Hart Lane on Wednesday 29th January (KO 19:45) in the 23rd round of Premier League matches in the 2013-14 season. Spurs come into the match in fifth place in the Premier League on 43 points with City in second place on 50 points. This will be the 148th 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. Overall, Spurs have won 58 games, City have won 55 games and the remaining 34 matches played have been drawn. please log in to view this image 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 2013-14 Manchester City Premier League Player's Squad Numbers 1993-94 to 2013-14 please log in to view this image please log in to view this image
Never knew Michael Brown played for City. Must admit I'm not feeling too optimistic about this one, despite how good we've been. I mentioned in another post that City are the only team I fear and I stand by it. The attacking talent they have is magical and a joy to watch. When a player like Edin Dzeko is predominantly a 3rd choice striker, you know you're gonna be in for a **** afternoon, especially if you're a defender! I predicted 4-2 in City's favour. Their attacking threat is too much for us to keep quiet I think and if we start like we have done against Palace and Swansea, the game will be over in the first 45 minutes. City don't impress me defensively and providing we can get Eriksen and Adebayor on the ball with other players supporting them, we have every chance of scoring and making a good game of it. If we can get Vertonghen and Sandro back that would be a huuuuge bonus and give me more optimism. Ideal team I'd like to see would be: Lloris, Walker, Dawson, Chiriches, Vertonghen (I know he hates LB and will be against Navas but I still think he'll do better defensively than Rose on this one) Sandro, Dembele Lennon, Eriksen, Chadli Adebayor As I mentioned I'm not convinced by City defensively yet and I think Chadli, despite still not setting the world alight, is a decent crosser of the ball and if Ade can make a nuisance in the box, it could be ideal to knock a few crosses in and see if Ade can get anything from it.
Thanks for another great matchday thread, THFC! The two facts which leap out (aside from City edging the last match) are that that the first five leading scorers are all from City, and that the two teams have a combined 11 wins and one draw in their last six games. Someone's sure to have their worst result in seven games. I would think Sherwood will play the same team that beat Swansea, despite most fans wanting to see Capoue added and Bentaleb dropped. I get the feeling he thinks an eleven is an enduring entity that needs an occasional tweak, rather than a group that needs to be chosen differently for different matches. Games tend to look bigger before and during than they do after, but this one might just be an exception. Being able to keep their form through a big test would be a considerable boost, and losing confidence due to a loss could be costly. Of course remembering the 6-0 game, Spurs have plenty of reason to worry, but I hope and expect we won't try to play for a draw. It's not daring, and it probably won't help. Man City has to be wondering how long their run of great results can last as well, and they haven't been nearly as formidable away (not until recently, anyway...).
Fantastic preview as usual THFC, always love reading your match threads. I'm hopeful about this match. City are invincible at home but the reason they're not walking away with the league this season is their away form - W5 D2 L4. But we must start quicker than we have in many recent games, if we give them the same 30 minutes that Swansea had then it'll be all over by half-time.
my preferred team: Lloris and Freidal and gomes walker vertongen kaboul chiriches Dawson rose Naughton BAE injury permitting...and rule change permitting...and bringing back BAE permitting
If Lennon is on form then I don't see why he can't cause them problems as left back for them is one of their weak areas.
City are almost unstoppable at the moment. But if there's one team who might get something off them, it's Spurs. If we can get an early goal, I think we might just come away with all thee points.
The good thing is we're having no problems scoring goals ourselves, City's defence isn't all that and I would back us to score a couple. The problem will come at the other end, we've been gifting chances to much lesser teams, and the last thing City need is gifts. We'll need to combine our best defensive display under Sherwood, with a bit of luck (a 50/50 decision here, a hit post there), and rely on Eriksen, Ade and Lennon to create a few chances. I expect them to deserve the victory, but hopefully we can sneak it.
Its up to us to limit what they can do when they have the ball, the teams that have had success have closed them quickly, deny them time, its hard graft to match or beat them, but it is do-able.
Even when we were beaten 6-0 earlier in the season, for the first 20 mins we caused city problems and they look vulnerable at the back. We simply have to take our chances this time, because they will most certainly take theirs. Dawson v Aguero is already giving me nightmares
