MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS
Manchester City were beaten 4-0 by Tottenham as their two-year unbeaten run at the Etihad was broken in brutal fashion.
Pep Guardiola’s side started the game brightly with Erling Haaland twice going close, but poor defending allowed Dejan Kulusevski to tee up James Maddison and the Blues never recovered. Maddison added a second before half-time and Pedro Porro made things even worse for the home team.
Kevin De Bruyne came off the bench but was unable to inspire a comeback as City never looked like getting back into the match with Brennan Johnson rubbing salt into the wound with a late fourth . Their next league game is away to Liverpool, after a home fixture in the Champions League against Feyenoord; here is how the players rated.
Walker: Most of the trouble came on City’s other side and he deal with Son well for large parts, although guilty of sitting off for the third. 5
Stones: A difficult 45 minutes on his first league start since Wolves, and he didn’t reappear after the break. Problematic for City. 4
Akanji: Couldn’t stop the Spurs onslaught on that side with Gvardiol but improved in the second half. 4
Gvardiol: A poor error for the first goal, compounded by an even poorer error for the second goal. Some good attacking positions made redundant by having given the game away. 3
Gundogan: A horror show, bypassed constantly in the game and unable to get back and help. A player who used to make everything look easy is struggling badly. 3
Lewis: A lot of shouting and aggression from a player up for a scrap, but very little contribution to creating chances from midfield. 4
Silva: Plenty of running and fight, and yet still powerless to prevent City’s midfield being overrun. 5
Foden: More intensity than the rest of his teammates, although his radar in front of goal still hasn’t returned from last season. 5
Savinho: Started brilliantly and quickly faded fast. Bottled out of what would have been a big goalscoring opportunity to sum up his lack of final product. 4
Haaland: None of his…
