Tottenham Hotspur gear up for potentially their biggest test of the season on Sunday.
Tottenham Hotspur have only lost one of their nine games in all competitions this season.
The Lilywhites, who lost to Monaco in the Champions League a fortnight ago, are unbeaten in six Premier League matches, but their biggest test comes on Sunday.
White Hart Lane plays host this weekend as Tottenham welcome a Manchester City side in red-hot form.
Pep Guardiola’s troops have won all six league outings, scoring 18 goals along the way, and few would back against them with regards to winning the title this season.
They have been nothing short of excellent and it will undoubtedly be Tottenham’s toughest 90 minutes of the season so far – on paper, anyway.
But one man who is confident that Mauricio Pochettino’s boys will pass such a test with flying colours is Spurs icon Ossie Ardiles.
The Argentine legend acknowledges that City are probably the team to beat this season, but Ardiles believes that his former side can inflict a first defeat on the high-flying Sky Blues.
Tottenham won this fixture last term by thrashing the Citizens 4-1 at White Hart Lane and although it came against Manuel Pellegrini’s side, the victory may give the hosts an added sense of belief ahead of hosting them again this weekend.
The North Londoners have been grinding out wins but, with the exception of a 4-0 win at Stoke, they have not been setting the league alight performance-wise.
But it will be very hard without the injured Harry Kane. Tottenham have, to their credit, coped well in the two games without the 23-year-old hitman, with Son Heung-min stepping up to the plate with three goals, but the reality is that City are much better than Middlesbrough and CSKA Moscow and Sunday might be a bridge too far.
Tottenham’s Son Heung-min celebrates scoring their first goal with Erik Lamela
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