Tottenham Hotspur 4-1 Manchester City: Five talking points
Tottenham turned the tables on Manchester City as they thumped the visitors 4-1 at White Hart Lane in their biggest victory over the Citizens since 1962. Although Kevin de Bruyne opened the scoring for the Manchester side, it spurred the Spurs on as they went on to hit back with four strikes, the first one coming from Eric Dier and followed by Toby Alderweireld, Harry Kane and Erik Lamela.The defeat means that the early-season pacesetters have now lost two league games on the bounce and conceded their top spot to their crosstown rivals Manchester United, who beat Sunderland later in the day. Here are the five talking points from the game:
#1 Lamela steps up to the plate
Spurs winger Erik Lamela has had an indifferent season so far with the North London side, but all of it wouldn’t matter now as the Argentine attacker ran the show with his terrific performance, that he capped off with a beautiful strike in the dying embers of the game.
Starting on the right side of the vanguard, Lamela wreaked havoc in City’s defense with his intelligent runs and incisive passes; moved infield to help out his teammates and even got into shooting positions early on. He was a constant threat attacking the far post and capped off his brilliant evening with a composed, nonchalant finish after rounding off Caballero.
It was one of Lamela’s best ever performances in a Spurs shirt and has surely set his spirits high to perform in the same vein in the forthcoming games.