Tottenham vs Manchester City Prediction: the Reigning Champ is About to Have a Hard Time

The big game on 26 February at 22:30 at Spurs' home stadium is between Tottenham and Manchester City. Can the hosts complete a hat-trick over City in the current campaign? Telecomasia has the lowdown on both teams, including all the key stats.

Tottenham

Tottenham are on a roll. In February, the team, led by Ange Postecoglou, had a great run in two English cups. First, the Spurs beat Liverpool in the League Cup semifinals. Then, the Londoners lost 1:2 to Aston Villa in the FA Cup. Next, Postecoglou's team played two English championship matches. In the 25th round, they had a narrow home win over Manchester United, and in the next away game against Ipswich Town, Spurs showed their quality with a 4:1 victory. Before the midweek games, the Spurs had 33 points, which saw them rise to 12th in the standings. Tottenham has the second best performance in the league with 53 goals scored (only Liverpool has 64 more).

Manchester

Pep Guardiola's squad has had their second bad patch this season. The problems of the Citizens were clear in the match with Leyton Orient in the fourth round of the FA Cup – a difficult victory with a score of 2:1, but exit in the next stage of the tournament. After this match, the club met Real Madrid twice in the Champions League: a home loss of 2:3 and an away defeat of 1:3, which led to exit from the European arena.

In the English Championship, Man City played two home matches. First, they beat Newcastle United 4:0, but then lost 0:2 to Liverpool in the 26th round. Before the midweek games, Man City were in fourth place with 44 points and a goal difference of +15.

H2H Meetings

The Spurs and Man City have already played each other twice this season. The first time they met was in the English League Cup in the capital, where Ange Postecoglou's team beat the opponent 2:1 at home. The next game was in the first round of the English Premier League. At the Etihad Stadium, Guardiola's team played terribly and were weak in defence, which Spurs took advantage of. They scored four goals and won the game

Bookmakers' Offers

Bookmaker 1xbet thinks Guardiola's team is the favorite to win. If you put money on the home team winning, you'd get back 3.295. If you thought the away team would win, it'd be 2.046. And if you thought it'd be a draw, you'd get 4.275.

The experts at the betting company are expecting a high productivity.The odds for more than 2.5 goals is 1.29, and for the reverse line with TU, it's 3.34.

Expert Betting Tips

Manchester City is under pressure at the moment - Tottenham is on a roll and coming into the game off two wins in a row in the EPL.The current champions aren't playing their best. We're expecting a pretty active game at the Spurs, with both teams attacking and the visitors probably keeping the ball more. Our main prediction is for a high number of corners for the Spurs in the first half, and we're also thinking Spurs might be stronger than Man City for a third game in a row. Man City has had a bit of a slump in form recently, as you can see from their last couple of games against Real Madrid and Liverpool.

Our picks:

W1 for 3.25

Corners IT1O (2.5) for 3.78

CS 3:2 for 17.00