Erling Haaland delivered all three points for Manchester City against Tottenham and tied a legendary record in the process.
Manchester City continued their top-four chase with a tricky away tie away to Tottenham.
The champions were looking to bounce back from consecutive defeats against Real Madrid and Liverpool and earned a crucial 1-0 win to climb into the Champions League places.
Guardiola’s men started in the best possible fashion, with star striker Erling Haaland finishing off a fine cut-back from Jeremy Doku to break the deadlock and notch his 20th league goal of the season.
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Erling Haaland returned from injury to inspire Pep Guardiola and Manchester City back to winning ways in the Premier League against Tottenham.
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Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has sent a strong warning to Kevin De Bruyne ahead of the expiration of his contract this summer.
That made him just the second player to reach that tally in each of his first three campaigns in the competition after Ruud van Nistelrooy did so for Manchester United between 2001/02 and 2003/04.
Haaland saw a late second disallowed for handball following a VAR check that confirmed the referee’s on-field decision
City are now just one point behind third-placed Nottingham Forest, who they face at City Ground next weekend.
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