Man City vs Tottenham: Pep latest, kickoff time, team news, where to watch

Who: Manchester City vs Tottenham Hotspur
What: English Premier League football
Where: Etihad Stadium, Manchester, United Kingdom
When: 5:30pm (17:30 GMT) connected Saturday
How to follow: Al Jazeera Sport will person each nan build-up and afloat matter commentary of nan game

Manchester City leader Pep Guardiola says he would enactment to nan extremity of his statement pinch nan Premier League champions moreover if they were relegated, a time aft he signed a two-year extension that will support him astatine nan nine until 2027.

Guardiola, who joined City successful 2016, has won 18 trophies pinch nan club, including six Premier League titles and their first Champions League.

City are embroiled successful a proceeding complete alleged breaches of nan league’s financial adjacent play rules, however, which could perchance spot them look points deductions, a good and relegation if recovered guilty. Guardiola has ever defended City, saying he trusts nan owners, and nan Spaniard said relegation would not origin him to time off nan club.

“I said six months agone erstwhile each nan clubs accused america to person done thing wrong, what happened if we are relegated – I will beryllium here,” Guardiola told reporters earlier Saturday’s location crippled against Tottenham Hotspur. “Next year, if we are successful nan conference, we will travel up to nan Premier League. I knew it then. I consciousness it now.”

Guardiola said he had agreed a caller woody successful “just 2 hours”, and erstwhile asked why he signed a two-year extension, he joked, saying it was because he liked nan Manchester weather. “It’s a bully question. I don’t want adjacent play – successful September, October, November – ‘It’s nan past twelvemonth of Pep.’ I don’t want to beryllium successful that position,” he added.

“I would for illustration to enactment for 2 years, but I cognize if nan results are not good, it will not beryllium 2 years.”

Tottenham caput coach Ange Postecoglou oversaw a League Cup triumph against City this period [Dave Shopland/AP]

Guardiola mislaid 4 matches successful a statement for nan first clip successful his managerial profession earlier nan world break, but he brushed it aside, saying City are besides nan only nine to triumph 4 convention titles successful a row.

“When you are present 8 aliases 9 years, you unrecorded each nan scenarios and situations. You are capable to suffer 4 games successful a row. At nan aforesaid time, you are capable to triumph 4 Premier Leagues successful a row,” he said. “The quality is astir teams are capable to suffer 4 successful a statement successful different competitions, but conscionable 1 squad won 4 Premier Leagues successful a row. Both sides of nan coin tin happen.”

But pinch Ballon d’Or victor Rodri sidelined for perchance nan remainder of nan season, Guardiola was dealt different rustle erstwhile Croatian midfielder Mateo Kovacic suffered an wounded connected world duty. “It will beryllium a while, 3 weeks aliases a month, much aliases less,” Guardiola said.

Tottenham’s inconsistency has near them 10th successful nan standings, but head Ange Postecoglou is paying small attraction to their mediocre shape and said successful glowing position astir Guardiola, whom he sewage nan amended of successful a League Cup triumph this month.

“He’s awesome for nan Premier League. He keeps mounting nan standard, which is awesome for each of america trying to mow him down,” nan Greek-Australian told reporters.

“It’s not easy to triumph successful different countries, and I cognize that he’s been astatine large clubs, but arsenic we’ve seen recently, that’s not needfully transferable to winning things each nan time. You’ve still sewage to do it.

“So he’s maintained a ridiculous level of excellence. The measurement his squad plays, they’re ever benignant of challenging each force they face, and I conjecture his power to support that for truthful agelong – it’s been outstanding.

“He’ll spell down arsenic 1 of nan greats already, and nan denotation that he’s re-signed intends there’s much to come.”

Manchester City squad news

Ruben Dias remains sidelined while chap defenders John Stones and Manuel Akanji person resumed training. Nathan Ake is besides group to return to training to boost nan beleaguered backline.

Tottenham Hotspur squad news

Spurs person respective players missing, including some their regular centre halves aft Postecoglou confirmed that Cristian Romero would not beryllium disposable on pinch Micky van de Ven.

Uruguayan Rodrigo Bentancur will besides beryllium absent, having been deed pinch a seven-match prohibition by nan Football Association for making a derogatory remark astir teammate Son Heung-min. Tottenham person appealed nan magnitude of nan ban.

Head-to-head

Manchester City person edged nan 172 meetings truthful acold pinch 68 victories to Tottenham’s 67.

Spurs person a remarkably bully caller record, winning 4 of nan past 8 encounters. Their first gathering was successful nan FA Cup successful 1909 pinch nan distant squad winning 4-3 successful Manchester.

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