Manchester City recovered from two objectives down at half-time to defeat Tottenham 4-2 on the Etihad Stadium and shut the hole on Premier League leaders Arsenal.
Spurs took benefit of some poor City defending – with Ederson specifically at fault – by means of objectives from Dejan Kulusevski and Ederson Royal simply earlier than the interval.
But City’s response was simply as swift as they had been degree eight minutes into the second half due to Julian Alvarez and Erling Haaland, who ended his mini purpose drought.
City survived a scare when Perisic hit the submit, however Riyad Mahrez put them forward and added one other late on to maneuver his facet inside 5 factors of Arsenal, who’ve a sport in hand.
Like he did in Spurs’ 3-2 win right here final 12 months, Kulusevski opened the scoring after Rodri poked the ball into his path when put underneath strain following Ederson’s poor move.
Emerson headed in a second for Spurs moments later after Kane gained a sort out in opposition to Rodri and had an angled drive pushed again into hazard by Ederson.
Guardiola opted in opposition to making any modifications on the break, however his facet’s response was instantaneous, with Alvarez firing dwelling a free ball after Riyad Mahrez’s cross was not handled.
City, who left Kevin De Bruyne on the bench all match, had been on degree phrases two minutes later by means of Haaland’s close-range header after Mahrez headed the ball again throughout purpose.
Ivan Perisic had a shot blocked proper in entrance of purpose by Rico Lewis, with the free ball hitting the submit, and that may show a giant second as Mahrez accomplished the comeback.
Mahrez first fired a low, onerous shot previous Lloris on the Spurs keeper’s close to submit, earlier than capitalising on Clement Lenglet’s poor contact to race in and double his tally on the loss of life.
