City do not want to let go.
Beaten last weekend in the Manchester derby by United (1-2), the Citizens reversed Tottenham (4-2) on Thursday evening.
They thus put pressure on Arsenal, who face MU this weekend, by returning to five points.
But nothing was easy against Spurs.
In a meeting that took a long time to start in the first act, Tottenham took advantage of the Skyblues' mistakes.
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While Haaland had just pointed the tip of his nose (42nd, 43rd), Pep Guardiola's men were scuttled, or rather Ederson gave the stick to be beaten.
Absolutely wishing to revive short, the Brazilian goalkeeper embarrassed Rodri in his own area, thus offering the opener on a plateau to Kulusevski (0-1, 44th).
In the process, surely still affected by his error, Ederson repelled a shot from Kane on Emerson who doubled the bet with a header (0-2, 45th + 2).
City react, Mahrez shines
Shaken at the break by Guardiola, the Skyblues returned more conquering from the locker room.
And quickly, Alvarez, on a confused action following a cross from Mahrez, put his people back on the right track (1-2, 51st).
120 seconds later, Haaland then capsized the Etihad Stadium.
Served by Mahrez with a header, the Norwegian cyborg scored, from close range, his 22nd Premier League goal of the season (2-2, 53rd).
Stunned, the Spurs went back to battle all the same and on a feat from Kulusevski, Perisic was close to restoring the advantage to the Londoners but his shot from the right, deflected by Lewis, came crashing into the post of Ederson.
Tottenham had missed their chance.
Because in the wake, the man of the match, Riyad Mahrez gave the advantage to City with a powerful right shot from a tight angle (3-2, 63rd).
The coup de grace for the Spurs, unable to return to the match then and finally punished by the Algerian at the end of the game following an error by Lenglet (4-2, 90th).