"Six-y" football sees City thrash sorry Spurs

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MANCHESTER CITY 6 - 0 TOTTENHAM 

Jesus Navas 1', 90' 

Sandro (OG) 34'

Aguero 41', 50'

Negredo 55' 

Manchester City put on another clinic of fantastic football at the Etihad Stadium as the Blues torn Tottenham Hotspur apart, winning 6-0 in front of their home fans.

It`s been levelled at Manchester City this season, that they have become complacent side away from home and that with all the talent they have at their disposal, that they have should be faring better away from home.

Their home form at the Etihad Stadium however, has been dominating no doubt about that and never more so was that evident than victory on Sunday, with the home side showing that in abundance with the thrashing of the North London side.

 City looked to bounce back from their last game, when the Blues suffered a 1-0 defeat to Sunderland, up on Wearside before the International break. Tottenham themselves were looking to get back to winning ways too, as they were defeated by the same score by Newcastle United at White Hart Lane, so both sides were hoping to get back to winning ways.

City had the best of the head to head in recent times, with the Blues winning 4 of the last 5 games against Spurs with and in this match they looked like they improve on that stat, as it took just 13 seconds into the match for the opening goal.

Navas scores in 13 seconds: pic:DailyMirror

Hugo Lloris terrible kick out from a back pass after 6 seconds, saw the French International keeper clearance go straight to the feet of Sergio Aguero whose then ran towards the area and strike on goal from outside the area, which  palmed the ball away by the Tottenham goalkeeper to the left to Spurs penalty area.

City`s Spanish midfielder Jesus Navas, then put a ball with pace over the despairing jump of Lloris and gave the home side a cracking start to the game as they were up 1-0 up in no time. 

Spurs game plan was thrown out the window by going behind so early, but the away team nearly responded minutes later, when a cross by Kyle Walker saw both Martin Demichelis and Keeper Costel Pantillimon miss the ball completely as it  took a bounce just before them as it deceived the pait.

From then, the ball fell to Lamela in the area and his shot was diverted away from Demichelis, with City all at sea from a ball that should have been dealt with easily.

Spurs enjoyed a good sustained pressure for a few minutes, as they had possession but wasn`t making it count for much, City or mainly Aguero, should have done better with a move he helped to create.

The Argentine striker ran towards the visitors defense as he played a lovely move with striker partner Alvaro Negredo, with the Spanish striker dinking a little ball back to Aguero and seen the  little striker trying to be clever and lift it over the goalkeeper , but saw Lloris deny him when it looked easier to have just placed or rifle it in.

Paulinho then wanted a penalty for the Away side, when he felt Yaya Toure touched his leg in the area and went down, but it was very minimal contact if any on the Tottenham man at all.

 Toure wasn`t in the game at all in the first half hour of play, as he looked a lost player out on the pitch as he wasn`t the usual energetic type player, that you expect from him.

City then had a penalty claim turned down by Howard Webb, when Samir Nasri went to pull the trigger in the area and Brazilian defender for Spurs Sandro, slid in well with a challenge that managed to stop the ex-Arsenal man from scoring.

Moments later, Sandro then seemed to crouch down for some unknown reason and wasn`t till later, that it due to the Spurs man throwing up on the pitch as he wasn`t feel well.

Not long after he was feeling sick again, as this time City made it 2-0 after another kick by Lloris started the move off, with the Keepers clearance headed back by Fernandinho on the half way line and to the path of Samir Nasri.

Nasri then put ball into the area for Aguero, who controlled it and saw his shot saved by the Spurs goalkeeper only to fall to Negredo, whose shot was on target but came back off Sandro legs, when Kaboul had blocked the initial shot only to find the way in the back of the opposition`s net.

Aguero makes it 3-0  pic: theguardian

In the 40th minute, Manchester City made it 3-0 when some more good build up play by the home side, saw Pablo Zabaleta set Navas off down the Spurs left and a Navas cross found Sergio Aguero, who just directed it goal wards and gave the home side a 3-0 lead to take into the half time break.

Second half saw former Blues striker Emannuel Adebayor come on as substitute for the away side, as they looked to try and find a way back in the game.

Negredo help`s City on their 2nd goal Pic: theguardian

Yaya Toure finally turned up in the second half for the home side and it was him who helped engineer the 4th goal for the Blues, when a move between him, Fernandinho and a nice little neat pass by Nasri, saw the Ivorian gallop forward onto the ball and had Kyle Walker trying to catch him. But he managed to hold off the challenge and put a ball across for Aguero who put home for a 4-0 lead and leave Tottenham in disarray as they were being massacred by the Manuel Pellegrini side and saw a few fans heading to the exits in the Spurs end.

Samir Nasri nearly made it five for the home side, when the Frenchman was cutting the Spurs players to shreds in his own half, managed to play a ball to Aguero and when he got the ball to him, he tried to play a cross to back post with the outside of right foot, but instead got it horribly wrong and saw it bounce against the bar instead for a near fluke goal.

They did make it 5-0  though in the 54th minute, when a through ball by Fernandinho cut right through the spine of the Tottenham side and saw Negredo take a little touch before he smashed it past Lloris for a great strike by the Spanish forward. 

Mousa Dembele then had a rare effort for the North Londoner`s, as they lacked any kind of attacking threat towards Pantillimon.

Toure came close to scoring, after a quick pass by Jesus Navas saw the Ivorian run onto the ball and shoot over the a bar.

Adebayor then had a chance to give Spurs a consolation goal as he tried to side foot past the City keeper, but Pantillion stood up to the task and saw the tall keeper block his effort.

Fernandinho then missed a great chance to open his scoring account for City, when a ball fizzed in by Negredo came to the Brazilian midfielder unmarked and he managed to somehow mis-kick against his other leg and watch it go out for a goal kick.

Time was running down and not soon enough for Andre Villas-Boas side and his players, but as they still had to suffer one more painful goal by the home side.  When a James Milner long ball up field, saw Jesus Navas run on the pass saw him out run Vertonghen, to coolly put past Lloris and finished what he help start, by scoring the 6^th goal and equal to the amount of goals Spurs had conceded away from home in the season so far.