Tottenham v Manchester City: Premier League – live

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Team news: De Bruyne left out

Pep’s been thinking again. He’s left Kevin De Bruyne on the bench, as he did in the Champions League quarter-final on this ground in 2019, and it looks like Kyle Walker is going to start at centre-back.

Spurs are unchanged from their last league game, the 1-0 win at Fulham 13 days ago. Their new signings Pedro Porro and Arnaut Danjuma are on the bench.

Tottenham Hotspur (5-2-3) Lloris; Royal, Romero, Dier, Davies, Perisic; Bentancur, Hojbjerg; Kulusevski, Kane, Son.
Substitutes: Forster, Sanchez, Lenglet, Sessegnon, Pedro Porro, Bissouma, Skipp, Danjuma, Richarlison.

Manchester City (possible 4-2-1-3) Ederson; Lewis, Walker, Akanji, Ake; Rodri, Bernardo; Alvarez; Mahrez, Haaland, Grealish.
Substitutes: Ortega Moreno, Dias, Phillips, Gundogan, Laporte, De Bruyne, Gomez, Perrone, Palmer.

Referee Andy Madley

Preamble

Pep Guardiola doesn’t have too many bogey grounds, but the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is one. Spurs have beaten City in their last four home games, with City not even scoring a goal in that time. It’s hard to reconcile with the reputation of both clubs, but then most of the wins have been down to two players who are anything but Spursy. Son Heung-min scored in all four games, while Harry Kane gave one of his greatest performances in a 2-0 win in November 2020.

City are due a result at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium – but then so are Spurs. They’ve lost four of the last five home league games, which has turned a provisional title challenge into a scrap for the top four. Today they will be without Antonio Conte, who is recovering after surgery to remove his gallbladear.

Manchester City are in a title race, as per, and were given a huge boost when Arsenal lost at Everton yesterday. A win today would take City within two points of the leaders. They’d have played a game more, sure. But given how much trouble they were in when they trailed Spurs 2-0 at half-time a couple of weeks ago – when they were facing a potential 11-point deficit – they’d very happily take it.

Kick off 4.30pm.