Tottenham stunned Man City with a 4-0 win at the Etihad Stadium, controlling the game from start to finish. Look back at the key moments from the Premier League clash with our Manchester City vs Tottenham stats page.
Manchester City suffered a demoralising 4-0 defeat at home to Tottenham Hotspur, ending their 52-game unbeaten home run across all competitions. City hadn’t lost at the Etihad since a 2-1 defeat to Brentford on 12 November 2022, but a James Maddison brace and a further strike from Pedro Porro ended that incredible run.
Maddison opened the scoring on 13 minutes, firing home from Dejan Kulusevski’s exceptional cross, before adding another seven minutes later. His second strike was even sweeter, lifting the ball over Ederson in the Man City goal after great work from Son Heung-Min.
Maddison was celebrating his 28th birthday, but fell one goal short of becoming just the third player in Premier League history to score a hat-trick on their birthday.
Back in January 2023, Spurs held a 2-0 half-time lead over City at the Etihad before eventually losing 4-2. Seven minutes into the second half, Ange Postecoglou’s side ensured that lightning didn’t strike in the same place twice.
Porro’s 52nd-minute goal came after a slick Tottenham move, with the Portuguese receiving a pass from Dominic Solanke before powering a shot past Ederson. Porro has now scored more Premier League goals than any other defender since his debut in the competition in February 2023 (8).
An injury-time goal from Brennan Johnson put the icing on the cake, and gave Guardiola the biggest thrashing in a home league game across his entire managerial career. The only other time that he’s lost a home game by four or more goals was in the UEFA Champions League back in April 2014, when Real Madrid beat his Bayern side 4-0 in Munich.
Spurs enjoyed a 3-0 win at Old Trafford against Manchester United back in September, and after this four-goal thrashing at the Etihad, they have become only the second team to beat both Man Utd and Man City away by a margin of 3+ goals in the same season since Everton in 1992-93.
For Man City, that’s now five consecutive defeats in all competitions – the worst run in Pep Guardiola’s managerial career. City last lost more consecutively between March and April 2006 under Stuart Pearce (6 in a row – the fifth game of which was also against Tottenham).
They now sit five points behind leaders Liverpool, with the Reds looking to extend that lead to eight points against Southampton on Sunday.
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Manchester City vs Tottenham: Post-Match Facts
Pep Guardiola lost a home game by four goals for just the second time in his managerial career (also 0-4 vs Real Madrid in April 2014 with Bayern) with this Manchester City’s heaviest home defeat in any competition since February 2003 (1-5 vs Arsenal at Maine Road).
Guardiola lost to Tottenham for the ninth time as a manager in all competitions, now the outright most defeats he has suffered against an opponent in his managerial career.
Man City are the first reigning English top-flight champions to lose five games in a row in all competitions since Chelsea in March 1956.
This was just the third time a team has won away against the reigning Premier League champions by 4+ goals, with Spurs responsible for two of those (also Man Utd 1-6 Man City in 2011, and Leicester 1-6 Tottenham in May 2017).