If anything, Clive, that was almost a bit *too* Manchester City v Spurs.
. The second leg of their Champions League quarter-final might now struggle to make the top three of daftest games these two have played at the Etihad in the last decade.Pep Guardiola said afterwards that he didn’t even recognise his Manchester City side
Never has one match more perfectly encapsulated the long-running Twitter gag that no matter what happens in football the joke is somehow always on Spurs. The great irony of this game is that City’s entire performance was just a luxe version of Spurs’ entire season to date. An inexplicably ponderous first half followed by a stirring second-half fightback.
And yet in that first half they really were rather good. That in itself is a bit awkward for Conte who, like Jose Mourinho before him, is putting a great deal of energy into convincing the world that keeping this Spurs squad ahead of Brighton or Fulham is far beyond what can reasonably be expected for a manager on £15m a year who only gets £150m worth of summer signings to work with.
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