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MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 2021 Man City shocked by Kane-less Spurs West Ham get better of Newcastle in six-goal thriller

LONDON: Tottenham shrugged off the absence of City’s side and scored his seventh goal against them to give Nuno Espirito Santo a dream on 55 minutes as he cut inside Ake and fired low start as manager as Son Heung-min’s strike beat into the bottom corner. Steven Bergwijn had a huge champions Manchester City 1-0 chance to double Spurs’ lead moments later when yesterday. Nuno left Kane out his squad with the he fired into the side-netting as City were again captain closely linked with a move to City, easily cut open on the counter-attack. Guardiola who showed why they are in need of a natural finally turned to his star-studded bench to turn the goalscorer in a toothless display. City have already game around with , spent £100 million on and are pre- and Oleksandr Zinchenko introduced. pared to smash the Premier League transfer record De Bruyne brought some much-needed speed to once more to get Kane by the end of the month. City’s approach play and tested Lloris from range. The Spurs striker was reportedly in the stadium, But even the Belgian could not raise the champions but not on the pitch after returning back to pre- from their slumber in the closing stages as their season training late in his bid to force a move away frustrations boiled over. Grealish was booked for from his boyhood club. Early on it was easy to see diving in on Lucas Moura in stoppage time to round why the 28-year-old sees City as the perfect desti- off his miserable debut. nation for the final years of his prime to earn silver- City have now lost their last three competitive ware. ’s men penned in the home side games 1-0 after defeats in the Champions League for the opening 10 minutes, but were left to rue not final last season to Chelsea and Leicester in last taking their chances as they slipped to a fourth weekend’s Community Shield. Guardiola’s men defeat in four visits to the Tottenham Hotspur should only get stronger with the return of many Stadium without scoring. internationals and possibly Kane. However, they Grealish could have won a penalty as he was have already ceded ground to Chelsea, Manchester tripped on the edge of the box by Oliver Skipp and United and , who all displayed their title Ilkay Gundogan’s free-kick was deflected inches credentials with convincing wins on Saturday. wide. Fernandinho then headed wide with the goal gaping as flapped at a cross, while Joao Flying start for West Ham Cancelo and sliced good chances West Ham twice came from behind to get their wide. However, buoyed by the return of a full house Premier League season off to a flying start with a LONDON: Manchester City’s Brazilian Fernandinho vies with Tottenham Hotspur’s Brazilian to their 62,000 capacity home, Spurs grew into the 4-2 win at Newcastle in front of over 50,000 fans midfielder Lucas Moura during an English Premier League football match at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium game and soon started causing City’s makeshift at St James’ Park yesterday. Roared on by the yesterday. — AFP defense problems. Magpies’ first capacity home crowd for 17 Guardiola left out England internationals John months, Newcastle started brightly as Callum Arsenal last season after the break. Newcastle box. On his Premier League debut, Freddie Stones and due to their lack of pre- Wilson headed home Allan Saint-Maximin’s teas- could not live with the pace and inventiveness of Woodman saved Antonio’s penalty, but Tomas season training and Tottenham targeted the pairing ing delivery. Said Benrahma and . Soucek pounded on the rebound to put West Ham of Nathan Ake and on the left of An intended cross by crept in They combined to get the visitors level once in front. Three minutes later Benrahma fed Antonio the City defense. Son saw a deflected shot fly inch- to quickly get West Ham level before Jacob more on 53 minutes as Benrahma stooped to head on the counter-attack and this time he made no es wide before the break in a prelude of what was Murphy’s header restored Newcastle’s lead at home Antonio’s cross. Antonio then hit the post mistake with a thumping finish to move level with to come in the winning goal. half-time. But ’s men showed why with a header from point-blank range, but on the as West Ham’s all-time top The South Korean has been a persistent thorn in they finished sixth ahead of Tottenham and rebound Murphy tripped inside the goalscorer in the Premier League. — AFP