The excellent start of Thomas Frank’s life while Tottenham director continued when they won a superb 2-0 victory at Manchester City.
City once again appeared the pretenders in the probable title during their 4-0 opening of the season victory in Wolves, while Tottenham sent Burnley in the first Premier League match of Frank in charge.
But it was Tottenham who maintained the momentum with an exceptional exhibition at the Etihad stadium, Brennan Johnson putting them in front of the 35th minute before Joao Palhinha went to a terrible error of the goalkeeper James Trafford in the first half to double the advantage of the Spurs.
City blew and blown out without putting Tottenham’s goal under a significant threat, visitors are ultimately going to victory to leave Pep Guardiola and City with a lot to think after an unexpected early reverse.
Manchester City in Tottenham
Omar Marmoush has seen several chances of giving City a lead in the first half, the first arrival in the 10th minute when he passed the ball over the face and closely wide after a defensive error by Pedro Porro.
The Egyptian was denied twice by Guglielmo Vicario, attracting an intelligent stop from the Italian 20 meters before the Tottenham goalkeeper was bottom to thwart Marmoush after an intelligence through the ball of Erling Haaland.
The left back Rayan At-Nouri has drink in the meantime between the second and third opportunities of Marmoush, and Tottenham capitalized on its exit when they found Joy in the city on the left to break.
Mohammed Kudus broke a long ball into Richarlison path, and the Brazilian center of the right was categorically sent by Johnson when his end turned out to be too powerful for Trafford.
Johnson’s goal was initially excluded for offside against Richarlison, but Var canceled this decision.
Although it is difficult to blame Trafford for the opening of Tottenham, he was undeniably at fault for their second, although he was put in a difficult position by the pass of Nico Gonzalez while City tried to play from the back.
The Trafford pass was intercepted while Pope Sarr pressing saw the balloon diverted to Richarlison. Trafford tried to recover, but the ball fell on the way to Palhinha, whose high content effort was diverted.
Erling Haaland wasted a golden opportunity to withdraw a goal before half-time when he headed for the Rayan Cherki cross and, although City was improved after the break, similar opportunities were difficult to find against an impressive rear guard of Tottenham.
Ruben Dias and the replacements Rodri and Bernardo Silva all got closer with the headers, but none had a vicario concerned, and this required a double at the end of traffic to refuse to Dominic Solanke and Wilson Odobert and prevent Tottenham from making a remarkably comfortable victory more emphatic while they were moving at the top of the Embryonnaire Table.
