please log in to view this image Tottenham Hotspur host Manchester City at White Hart Lane on Sunday 3rd May 2015 (KO 16:00) in the 35th round of Premier League matches in the 2014-15 season. Spurs come into the match in sixth place in the Premier League on 58 points with City in second place on 67 points. This will be the 150th 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. City extended their run to 3 consecutive wins at the Etihad in October 2014 with Sergio Aguero scoring all 4 goals. Christian Eriksen scored for Spurs. Overall, Spurs have won 58 games, City have won 57 games and the remaining 34 matches played have been drawn. please log in to view this image Full History of Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester City Matches 1909-2015 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 As always, all praise goes to @THFC6061 and you can find the full match article here
All this optimism and no defence. Will Verts play LB and who'll play RB? Possibly back four of Vlad Dier Fazio and Jan against Aguero, Silva, Jesus. ??????????????????????????
A blessing in disguise. Our regulars have been letting in four or so a game against City, so it’s time to change things up. I guess we start Dier at CB and Vlad at RB, on the grounds that Vlad causes too many heart attacks in the middle of our defence. On the other hand, Dier created two assists and played an excellent game at RB against Southampton. The first game featured one of the two biggest pen bonanzas in PL history.
Team Yedlin are saying we'll win if this is our starting xi: Lloris; Yedlin, Dier, Fazio, Vertonghen; Bentaleb, Dembele; Lamela, Eriksen, Townsend; Kane The logic being that, if the right flank has Yedlin bombing down the wing and cutting inside, while on the left Verts plays conservatively while Townsend bombs down that flank, we'll have some joy. This falls apart when you remember that, when Townsend has the ball at his feet and the build-up looks promising, he will ignore every single teammate in better positions and instead shoot tamely at the keeper or wildly towards the floodlights.
A long,long time ago in a galaxy not far away,I turned upat The Lane to watch Spurs play City. Spurs had a new player from Scotland at left half named Dave Mackay.Not expecting too much,I watched him go through his paces before the game and noticed that everything he did was so casual and brilliant I was taken aback.....and then the game started....and I realized we had a gem.To this day I think he was the greatest player I ever saw. Thanks for the memories Dave.Oh! We beat City 3-1.......is it just possible..........?
Rose is in contention and is quoted on the OS talking about the challenge of taking on an inform Navas so I'd assume he's likely to start.
The most tenuous grip on basic mental functioning award for the week goes to Steve Wilson, of the Beeb. "Spurs have taken just eight points from their nine matches against the five teams above them going into the weekend's fixtures." If we had drawn every match, we’d only have nine from nine. Remember, these are the teams "above us." I’ll try again for him: "Spurs have won 60% more points from the five teams above them this year than last, with one game remaining, and more than twice as many from the five teams above them last year." Cartilage Free Captain has an article with that plan. I’m not sure if that’s what you’re referring to. In any case, the writer wants us to sit back, which I don’t think we’ll do at home. I also guess we’ll see Paulinho and Lamela, to try to clarify their futures and/or put them in the shop window. I’d like to see Yedlin, though, and don’t quite understand why he’s only played a few minutes this year.
That's the one - they've been getting bloody irritating since Yedlin arrived in January, saying he needs to play...forgetting the MLS season finished about ten minutes before he arrived.
Can't see our form against City changing today - no doubt we'll gift them a few cheap goals and play them right back into form. City fans will probably have wished this fixture had come along 6 weeks ago when they were still challenging.
Our best chance most likely has nothing to do with what we do - if the Chavs win the Croydon Derby, thus sealing the title, City's players might take to the pitch thinking it's not worth busting a gut over.
Line up off Twitter: Lloris (c); Dier, Fazio, Vertonghen, Rose; Bentaleb, Mason; Chadli, Eriksen, Lamela; Kane Bench: Vorm, Chiriches, Yedlin, Paulinho, Stambouli, Adebayor, Soldado Presumably Townsend's injured, shame because I thought this would be the type of game to suit him.
Seeing Adebayor on the bench says two things: we've got a lot of injuries, and he's pissed off Poch less than Kaboul or Capoue have.
It's Ade isn't it? Playing against his old club, M.P. probably figures that the lazy twat might actually try! So long as he doesn't try too hard and get sent off, like he did against The Goons.
Or the fact that Adebayor played for City and likes to perform against his old clubs has not been forgotten.
Chadli has to find his man there. That's poor. Then Dier misses a free header. Throwing away chances.
