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With a brace from James Maddison, a spectacular goal from Pedro Porro, and a tap-in in stoppage time from Brennan Johnson, Tottenham Hotspur dealt a crushing blow to Manchester City’s hopes of winning the Premier League.
With their championship rivals playing on Sunday, City wanted to make sure they weren’t vulnerable to falling behind by as much as eight points, since they were five points behind league leaders Liverpool going into the match.
Spurs, on the other hand, were keen to leave Manchester with at least a point after defeating Ipswich Town 2-1 at home in their last league match before the international break.
Spurs had given Ipswich Town their first victory of the season. Erling Haaland had a fantastic chance inside five minutes for City to take the lead in the match.
But he was unable to get the ball off in time, enabling Davies to score. Guglielmo Vicario’s extended knees stopped the Norwegian’s second attempt to put his team up early.
Spurs midfielder Maddison, who was celebrating his 28th birthday, opened the scoring in the 13th minute after Dejan Kulusevski played.
In a delicious looping cross over the defender during their first phase of play inside City’s half, despite the team’s struggles to get on the ball and their meager 32 percent possession at that point in the game.
City were devastated after giving up, but Spurs rallied after a mistake by Josko Gvardiol. Son Heung-Min and Maddison played a nice one-two.
With Maddison managing to clip the ball over a grounded Ederson to increase the visitors’ advantage in less than 20 minutes.
Although City started to apply more pressure, they were unable to rally before the half. Spurs quickly scored their third goal in the second half when Dominic Solanke.
Who was on the touchline after Kulusevski’s cross into the box dragged him wide, cut it back for Pedro Porro to score and give the visitors a three-goal lead.
The spectators at the Etihad were left in disbelief by what they were witnessing. To the annoyance of the players and the spectators, Haaland believed he had pulled one back around the hour mark, but his attempt on goal bounced over the top of the bar.
Timo Werner, who had just entered the game, blasted past Kyle Walker to throw in a cross that Brennan Johnson could grab onto and knock in into an empty goal, giving Spurs a 4-0 victory and adding salt to City’s wounds.
By the end of the weekend, City may be eight points behind key championship contenders Liverpool after suffering their fifth straight loss across all competitions. Spurs move up from 11th to sixth place in the rankings with three well-earned points.