Guardiola's free spirits expose Tottenham's predictability

José Mourinho’s stale Spurs unable to change the script as they are swept away by Manchester City’s swashbuckling style

There was a moment around six minutes in, when the score was still 0-0 and the promise of this game was still fresh and Tottenham still harboured fanciful ambitions of a credible 2-1 defeat rather than a 3-0 trouncing, and Harry Kane got the ball in the centre circle.

There wasn’t much on, but with a single, magical dip of the shoulder, he wriggled past Bernardo Silva and Rodri and bore down on the Manchester City penalty area. Alas, this was the point at which reality bit. Despite having just shrugged off two blue shirts, Kane was now confronted by four more. With no player in his vicinity, all Kane could do was keep dribbling until he lost the ball. Which, with a dulling inevitability, he did.

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