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MOTD- Tottenham Hotspur 1-5 Manchester City

By on January 29, 2014

There was one moment, only three minutes into Manchester City’s visit to White Hart Lane, that said it all. Fernandinho played the ball into Sergio Aguero, who spurred on the burners on the edge of the D and blew by three Tottenham players before chipping it over Hugo Lloris towards the top left corner, and although it looked for the world like it would nestle right into the top corner then post denied it from finding it’s way into the back of the net like the countless other times it has for City so far this season. Basically, City are unstoppable. No matter what you prepare for, you aren’t well enough prepared. Out of their thirty-seven matches so far this season in only two have they have the not scored in. Even a more menacing statistic is that in their last seven matches The Sky Blues have scored twenty-nine goals. Folks, that’s an average of over four goals per match, and there’s no doubting that they made Tottenham Hotspur aware of their ability to pull such a stat.

It was an important match to win for Tim Sherwood’s side, but only fifteen minutes into the match Spurs would have taken a point with as much thanks as if they had been given six. A quarter hour in, they new they would be in for a tough ride, which was just beginning as Aguero chipped the ball past Lloris from a tight angle on the right after being slipped in by David Silva to make it 1-0 in the fifteenth minute. Just five minutes later Lloris did manage to keep out Aguero’s open header from Gael Clichy’s cross on the left wing with a stunning reaction save, but the French goalkeeper was helpless when Aguero sent an effort whistling inches over the bar in the twenty-third minute. Zabaleta was next to come inches away from doubling City’s lead with a fine curler, yet somehow the first half came to a close without another goal from the visitors.

However, at the start of the second half City got on their goalscoring groove. Six minutes into the half Yaya Toure coolly tucked away a penalty into the bottom right corner of the net after Danny Rose got himself sent off with a dreadful sweeping challenge to bring Edin Dzeko down as the forward was bursting through on goal, and just two minutes later Dzeko bagged the third for City. In a beautiful move, Jesus Navas played the ball into the run of Zabaleta’s overlap down the right for the full-back to gala lop into the box and cut it back to Silva, who turned with the ball prior to smacking a twelve yard shot. The ball rebounded back of the far post, yet it fell for Dzeko to emphatically volley it into the roof of the net from close range to put the game to bed.

Tottenham managed to pull one back in the fifty-ninth minute when Etienne a Capoue side-volleyed Christian Eriksen’s corner from the left home following a minor scramble near the penalty spot, but City responded with two goals of their own to make it an embarrassment. The first of which came in the seventy-eight minute as Stevan Jovetic’s wickedly deflected shot from twenty yards wrong footed Lloris before nestling into the bottom corner, while the second came eleven minutes later when Dzeko’s blocked effort from the edge of the box fell to Vincent Kompany, who prodded in the ball on the from nearly point blank range on the right side of the goal. Yet it was just adding insult to injury as the match was already won, and after three minutes of stoppage time those sweet three points were officially added to City’s tally to take them top of the English Premier League table.
Man of the Match: Sergio Aguero

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