Steven Bergwijn made a splendid debut for Tottenham scoring his first goal for the club and helping them win 2-0 against Manchester City. Jose Mourinho may finally be able to live up to expectations as his new direction for the club takes form with his new signings.
Tottenham spent most of the first half on the defensive as Manchester City dominated the first hour of the game
A controversial encounter in which Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling was lucky enough to only get a yellow card after he caught Deli Ali with his studs. This decision was not received well by Jose Mourinho who wen to complain about it after the match.
Aguero miss a golden opportunity to put Manchester City in the lead just before the half time break when he missed the goal, instead sending the ball into the side netting from goal scoring position.
The drama started in the second half when Zinchenko was shown his second card of the game for his foul on Harry Winks.
Manchester City then found themselves down to 10 men with 30 minutes remaining in the game.
Man City’s debut signing Steven Bergwijn took full advantage of this 3 minutes later as he went on to score his first goal for Tottenham having chested a from Lucas Moura and then sending flying past Man City goalkeeper Ederson.
Teammate Son was able to secure Tottenham a comfortable lead scoring the second goal of the game just 8 minutes later.
Manchester City’s woes did not end there as just 5 minutes before the end of the second half, Raheem Sterling was taken off the pith due to a muscle injury.
This loss meant that Man City were unable to extend the 2 point gap between them and 3rd place Leicester city who are currently on 49 points.
If he’s new signing continues in his current form, Jose Mourinho may just be to push Tottenham into Champions League qualification as they are currently just 4 points behind 4th place Chelsea who currently have 41 points
