Manchester Metropolis have made their greatest begin to a Premier League marketing campaign for six years and now face a Tottenham aspect that additionally took most factors on the opening weekend.
Metropolis have picked up only one win from their previous 4 residence matches towards Spurs however Pep Guardiola’s table-toppers have been spectacular of their 4-0 win at final weekend.
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Tijjani Reijnders stole the present at Molineux with a midfielder masterclass and have become solely the second participant to attain and help on Premier League debut for Metropolis after Sergio Aguero.
Metropolis’s defensive excessive line additionally caught the attention they usually restricted the house aspect to 3 pictures heading in the right direction and an anticipated targets complete of 0.56. Guardiola’s males have saved seven clear sheets since April – probably the most of any aspect – and have confronted the fewest pictures per sport of any top-flight aspect in that point.
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Erling Haaland pitched in with two targets and he is now scored on the Premier League’s opening weekend in all 4 of his seasons at Metropolis. He has amassed 48 targets in 48 residence league appearances for the membership however solely a type of has come towards Spurs on the Etihad.
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Tottenham head coach Thomas Frank has made an encouraging begin to life in north London with a 3-0 residence win over promoted in his first Premier League sport in cost.
Frank has switched to a extra direct model of play, with 57% extra crosses into the field and 36% extra profitable lengthy passes in comparison with final season’s Premier League common below Ange Postecoglou. Going longer at instances on Saturday may show fruitful, notably if Metropolis stick with their extraordinarily excessive backline.
The Dane led his former aspect to a 2-1 victory on the Etihad in November 2022 and will grow to be simply the third supervisor to defeat Pep Guardiola in an away league match with two totally different golf equipment. Jose Mourinho was the primary with Actual Madrid in 2012 and six years later, and he was adopted by Antonio Conte at in 2016 and Spurs in 2022.
It’s no secret that Tottenham are available in the market for an additional attacking midfielder to switch the injured James Maddison, with failed bids for Morgan Gibbs-White and Eberechi Eze broadly publicised.
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Nonetheless, £55m new boy Mohammed Kudus provided loads of artistic spark with 5 possibilities and two assists – no different Premier League participant supplied extra final weekend.
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Targets ought to not less than be a assure on Saturday. The previous 4 top-flight conferences between these sides on the Etihad have produced 21, with Metropolis scoring 9 and Spurs 12.