Can Ange Postecoglou make it 4 Premier League wins in a row? We sit up for Wednesday’s conflict with our Tottenham vs Manchester Metropolis prediction and preview.
Tottenham vs Man Metropolis Stats: The Key Insights
The Opta supercomputer expects an away win, with Manchester Metropolis triumphing in 46.7% of pre-match simulations.
Tottenham may change into the primary facet to beat each Manchester sides thrice every in a single marketing campaign throughout all competitions.
Metropolis have did not win any of their final three Premier League away video games in opposition to London groups (D2 L1), having received six in a row earlier than this.
Manchester Metropolis will hope to get again on monitor after a disappointing week. Pep Guardiola’s facet went crashing out of the UEFA Champions League by the hands of Actual Madrid, earlier than a 2-0 defeat to runaway leaders Liverpool on Sunday on the Etihad Stadium.
Metropolis will hope to regroup for Wednesday evening’s journey to a resurgent Tottenham.
Erling Haaland sat out of each defeats final week however Guardiola hopes to have his talisman again from a knee damage on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. John Stones limped off on the Santiago Bernabéu, becoming a member of Rodri, Oscar Bobb and Manuel Akanji as long-term absentees.
Man Metropolis will likely be looking forward to the return of Haaland, who has scored six objectives in 5 Premier League video games in London this season. Solely former Leeds United striker Tony Yeboah has scored extra within the capital in a single marketing campaign amongst gamers to play for non-London sides (8 in 1995-96) within the competitors’s historical past.
Haaland additionally wants only one strike on the street to make it 10+ dwelling objectives and 10+ away objectives in three totally different Premier League campaigns (additionally 2022-23 and 2023-24). The one participant to have ever executed so in three consecutive seasons is former Spurs star Harry Kane (2015-16 to 2017-18).
Nevertheless, Metropolis’s file within the capital leaves quite a lot of questions for Guardiola. They’ve did not win any of their final three top-flight away video games in opposition to London sides, drawing with Crystal Palace and Brentford earlier than shedding to Arsenal. Metropolis had received six in a row in opposition to capital-city golf equipment earlier than this within the competitors. They final had an extended run with out a league win in London between February and November 2020 (4), whereas they final did so in the identical season in 2014-15 (5).
Altering that file in opposition to an in-form Spurs may show a troublesome process. Ange Postecoglou’s facet have quietened their critics with three straight league wins over Brentford, Manchester United and Ipswich City, as many victories as they’d managed of their earlier 15 video games (D2 L10).
Brennan Johnson scored twice, together with objectives for Djed Spence and Dejan Kulusevski, as Tottenham hammered relegation-threatened Ipswich 4-1 on Saturday. That win lifted them to twelfth, although they haven’t received 4 in a row since September/October 2023.
Son Heung-min teed up each Johnson objectives in opposition to Ipswich, taking him to 9 assists within the 2024-25 competitors. Solely in 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2023-24 has he supplied extra in a single marketing campaign within the Premier League (10 every time).
After profitable the reverse fixture in November in addition to eliminating them from the EFL Cup, beating Metropolis once more on Wednesday would make Tottenham the primary staff to beat each Manchester sides thrice every in a single marketing campaign throughout all competitions. They’ve already overcome Man Utd on three separate events this season.
Postecoglou will goal for that piece of historical past with out first-choice defenders Micky van de Ven and Cristian Romero, in addition to Dominic Solanke, Richarlison and Radu Dragusin. Timo Werner is again in coaching and will return to the squad.
Tottenham vs Man Metropolis Head-to-Head
Tottenham wish to do the league double over Man Metropolis for the primary time because the 2021-22 season, whereas they final did so with out conceding within the 2009-10 marketing campaign.
A surprising efficiency on the Etihad in November noticed Spurs thrash Metropolis 4-0, with objectives from Johnson, James Maddison (2) and Pedro Porro.
Additionally they beat Metropolis 2-1 within the EFL Cup, due to objectives from Werner and Pape Sarr earlier than Matheus Nunes’ comfort strike.
The final staff to win three video games in a marketing campaign in opposition to the reigning English champions was Man Utd (vs Man Metropolis in 2019-20), whereas the final time Spurs did so was in 1984-85 (vs Liverpool).
Metropolis received this precise fixture 2-0 final season, nevertheless, as Haaland’s double propelled them in direction of the title. Guardiola’s facet had misplaced every of their first 4 league conferences on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium with out scoring.
Tottenham vs Man Metropolis Prediction
The Opta supercomputer backed Guardiola’s facet for victory as Man Metropolis claimed all three factors in 46.7% of 10,000 pre-match simulations.
Tottenham nonetheless maintain a 30% chance of doing the double over the reigning champions, whereas the draw got here in at 23.2%.
Tottenham vs Man Metropolis Predicted Lineups
Opta Energy Rankings
The Opta Energy Rankings are a world staff rating system. They assign a capability rating to over 13,000 home soccer groups. This rating is on a scale between zero and 100, the place zero is the worst-ranked staff on this planet and 100 is the perfect staff on this planet.
Forward of kick-off on Wednesday, right here is the Opta Energy Rating for either side.
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