Manchester City finally lift the curse to knock Tottenham out the FA Cup
by Lawrence Ostlere
Jan 26, 2024
4 minutes
Finally, the curse was lifted. Manchester City are a magnificent team, the rightful champions of Europe and the world, but on this rectangular patch of ground in north London they have been a mixture of unfortunate, underwhelming and comically inept. Before tonight they had played five games at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and lost them all, never even scoring a goal despite accumulating an xG of about 375. For 88 minutes here history rhymed, until Nathan Ake’s bundled late winner, a game won in the most un-Cityish of ways.
Pep Guardiola had been getting increasingly irate, so much so that
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