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Tottenham Hotspur
Hugo Lloris – 6.5
Lloris made a number of strong saves to keep Spurs in the game beyond half-time. However, he could be faulted for not being able to prevent de Bruyne from scoring, no matter how harsh it might sound. His night was made forgettable when Sterling knicked the ball through his legs after Dier fluffed a clearance, allowing the City winger to walk the ball into the net.
Kieran Trippier – 4
Trippier had a shocking game, being outpaced and out-thought by Leroy Sane on the wing throughout the 90 minutes. The pressure exerted by the German meant that he had close to no opportunity to impact the game going forward.
Eric Dier – 5
Dier had a tough 90 minutes against the leaders, finding the runs of City’s forwards almost impossible to deal with. His error in attempting to clear Bernardo Silva’s long ball led to Sterling scoring his second, summing up the versatile defender’s evening.
Jan Vertonghen – 6
Vertonghen made a couple of crucial clearances to stop square passes from finding their target inside the 6-yard box. The scorecard may have looked worse for the visitors but for Vertonghen, as he was the only one at the back for Spurs who looked focused and ready to adapt to the challenge posed by an offensively dangerous City.
Danny Rose – 5
Rose never provided any quality going forward and was constantly harrowed by Sterling, who kept cutting in from wide.
Harry Winks – 5.5
Winks covered a lot of ground, but most of it was for chasing the ball that City were in no mood to give away. Even when the youngster got the ball, he was surrounded by City shirts, who were only too eager to win it back.
Moussa Dembele – 5.5
Dembele could not get forward with the ball, running into Fernandinho amongst many others every time he had possession. He was guilty of a couple of fouls in midfield and did very little to break City’s high tempo.
Christian Eriksen – 6
The Danish midfielder had a subdued evening at Manchester, unable to find that final pass to cut open City’s defence. His injury-time goal was irrelevant.
Dele Alli – 4
Alli created virtually nothing from a number 10 position and could have been sent for an early bath for what looked like a stamp on Kevin de Bruyne.
Son Heung-min – 6
Son tried his hardest to open up space to run into from the right side of midfield, but City’s defence was organised and had an answer to any form of attack from Spurs.
Harry Kane – 5
Apart from a couple of shots – one which went narrowly off target and the other forcing a save from Ederson – Kane was below-par. He was sloppy on the ball, was well marked by Otamendi and Mangala and should have been sent off for a high-footed tackle on Raheem Sterling.
Substitutes
Erik Lamela – 4
Lamela’s introduction was co-incidental with City’s ascendancy towards the closing stages, leading to two goals. As a result, the Argentine was merely a spectator and hardly did anything meaningful with the ball.
Moussa Sissoko – 4
Sissoko replaced Alli to inject some late hope to break City down, but he failed to create any chance ended up getting booked.
Ben Davies – N/A
Davies came on very late, with the game quite dead by then.
