Man City 0-4 Tottenham: Pep Guardiola suffers a fifth straight defeat for first time in managerial profession as City’s disaster deepen

Pep Guardiola suffered a fifth straight defeat for the primary time in his managerial profession as Manchester City’s disaster deepened following an unimaginable 4-0 residence defeat by Tottenham.

City will fall eight factors behind Liverpool if the Premier League leaders win at Southampton on Sunday – with City then travelling to Anfield subsequent week, dwell on Sky Sports.

“Man City were outplayed in every department,” summarised Sky Sports’ Gary Neville. “They look well short – as short as I have seen them since Guardiola’s first season.”

There was a celebratory temper across the Etihad earlier than kick-off as Man City midfielder Rodri confirmed off his Ballon d’Or trophy on the pitch. There was additionally the information of Guardiola’s new two-year deal to stick with the Premier League champions and the constructive ambiance translated onto the pitch within the early levels.

With Phil Foden, who began within the No 10 place behind Erling Haaland, pulling the strings, Man City began by slicing Spurs open with ease. “It’s a little too easy,” Sky Sports’ Gary Neville stated, however it was Haaland’s wastefulness in entrance of aim that may show expensive. Haaland snatched at his shot after being performed in by Josko Gvardiol earlier than the Norway striker fired straight at Guglielmo Vicario after being picked out by Savinho’s cross.

Spurs punished City as they took the lead from “out of nowhere”, in keeping with Neville. The good Dejan Kulusevski’s beautiful cross discovered James Maddison, who volleyed previous Ederson to depart the Etihad shocked.

The guests had been now in full management and it was City who had been being minimize open at will. Ederson needed to pull off a surprising fingertip save to disclaim Heung-Min Son however there was nothing he may do to disclaim Maddison a second. It was quick changing into a twenty eighth birthday to recollect for the England midfielder, who capitalised on a Gvardiol error earlier than producing a deft end over the Man City goalkeeper to double Spurs’ lead.

Nathan Ake changed John Stones on the break however there was no change in fortune for City.

Kulusevski performed a key function once more as Spurs additional prolonged their benefit. He carried the ball out of defence, holding off two challenges earlier than releasing Dominic Solanke. The striker teed up Pedro Porro, who hammered the ball into the again of the online to place Spurs in dreamland.

“The stadium is shell-shocked. They can’t believe what they are watching,” stated Neville after the third Spurs aim. Haaland grazed the crossbar with an effort earlier than Guardiola rung the adjustments, bringing on Kevin De Bruyne and Jack Grealish to attempt to discover a manner again into the competition.

It didn’t occur and the Spurs celebrations bought even greater in stoppage time as substitute Timo Werner ran previous Kyle Walker like he wasn’t there earlier than teeing up Brennan Johnson for a tap-in as Man City suffered a 3rd straight Premier League defeat beneath Guardiola for the primary time.

Things don’t get any simpler for City. They will look to keep away from a sixth straight defeat towards Feyenoord within the Champions League on Tuesday earlier than an enormous Premier League showdown towards league leaders Liverpool, who’ve the prospect to go eight factors clear once they tackle Southampton on Sunday, dwell on Sky Sports.

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“I felt now is not the time to leave, I would let the club down and I had the feeling I had to do it,” Guardiola stated earlier within the week on signing his deal to remain at City amid their poor run of latest type.

Defeats to Tottenham within the Carabao Cup, Sporting within the Champions League, Bournemouth, Brighton and now Spurs once more within the Premier League have deepened these issues for Guardiola and City.

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Pep: We are fragile defensively

Man City boss Pep Guardiola:

“In this moment we are fragile defensively. We started really well as normal but we could not score and then after that we conceded. After that, we conceded some more which is difficult for our emotions right now.

“In eight years we now have by no means lived this sort of state of affairs. Now we now have to dwell it and break it by profitable the subsequent video games, particularly the subsequent one. Now we see issues in a technique, possibly in just a few weeks we’ll see it otherwise.

“Of course [the players are struggling]. We are happy when we win and concerned when we don’t win. It’s normal. There would be a problem if they were not worried or I am not worried.

“We will not be used to this case however life is like this. Sometimes it occurs and we now have to just accept it. It is what it’s now and we’ll get up and do it.

“The fire is when you win a lot of games, which is better than when you are losing, but we accept this. We have to move forward and break it and try.”

‘A sobering day for well-short City’

Sky Sports’ Gary Neville on the Etihad Stadium:

“Man City were outplayed in every department. They look well short – as short as I have seen them since Guardiola’s first season.

“[Pep] can have wished that worldwide break to return, considering it will be a reset second.

“But it further entrenches the opinion this is a City side currently in decline. It seems madness, when you think about what they’ve achieved.

“We have highlighted the variety of pictures however that is not City’s greatest drawback at this second. It’s the very fact they’ve turn out to be simpler to play towards. Teams are inspired. The vulnerability is obvious for everybody to see.

“It’s a sobering day for Man City”

‘Spurs good to a person’

Sky Sports’ Jamie Redknapp:

“Tottenham were magnificent. We all looked at the team with Ben Davies and Dragusin, how are they going to keep this Man City forward line quiet? Impossible. They were fantastic. Brilliant to a man.

“Once they bought that aim within the thirteenth minute they had been by far the higher workforce.

“Tottenham will have had a lot of demons in their head after that Brighton game when they were two up. There was a real calmness about them today. They were absolutely fantastic.

“Tottenham are able to brilliance. We’ve seen it. They have moments in video games when they’re a pleasure to look at however that chaotic nature they usually have wasn’t there.”

Ange: Significant win for Spurs

Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou to Sky Sports:

“It’s vital, whenever you perceive the context of who we had been enjoying.

“I’m proud of the lads, the football we played, the resilience and discipline we showed. When you play City they test every aspect of your game and we handled that well.

“It was an vital recreation for us, the way in which the boys reacted [to defeat to Ipswich]. It’s simple whenever you’re beneath strain to splinter off however I by no means bought the sense that may occur this week.

“The disappointing thing over the last few games is we’ve fallen well short of the kind of team we want to be. But I’ve no doubt we are on the right track.”

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