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Fri 25 September 2015 12:53, UK

Tottenham vs Manchester City, Saturday, 26/9/15, White Hart Lane, 12:45pm
Live on BT Sports 1
Odds: Tottenham: 11/4, Man City: 10/11, The Draw: 13/5
Referee: Mark Clattenburg
Last Three Meetings:
Tottenham 0-1 Man City
Man City 4-1 Tottenham
Tottenham 1-5 Man City
2015/16 Form
Tottenham: DDWWWL
Man City: WWWLLW
Injured/Doubtful
Tottenham: Nabil Bentaleb, Alex Pritchard
Man City: Kelechi Iheanacho, Fabian Delph, Pablo Zabaleta, Gael Clichy/David Silva, Wilfried Bony, Eliaquim Mangala, Samir Nasri, Vincent Kompany
Suspended
Tottenham: None
Man City: None
Win, Lose or Draw?
Tottenham’s resurgence was quelled by a not-especially-impressive Arsenal outfit in the Capital One Cup and Manchester City are sure to inflict more misery on Mauricio Pochettino’s side this weekend.
The Citizens don’t exactly boast an enviable record against their fellow upper echelon dwellers, but the Lilywhites are one team they’ve frequently savoured great success against.
Since the start of the 2011/12 campaign, the Premier League pacesetters have failed to win just once against this north London adversary, prevailing in seven of the eight renewals surrounding a 3-1 reverse in 2012/13.
They come into this clash having won four on the spin against this foe, scoring a staggering 16 goals and shipping just two in the process.
Based on recent results, it’ll be tough for Man City to maintain their ridiculously healthy net-bulging average against Spurs, with defensive solidity taking precedent over an unrelenting commitment to getting forward.
Just once this campaign have the Citizens notched north of the three-goal threshold, doing so in their most recent outing, a 4-1 Capital One Cup routing of Sunderland.
Prior to this, they hadn’t bagged more than two since slaying Chelsea 3-0 on the second weekend of the season.
This should give Spurs, who have been stern in defence themselves, hope of avoiding their routine battering at the hands of Man City.
Just two of eight games across all competitions resulted in the White Hart Lane outfit leaking multiple goals, though they’ve never surrendered more than a brace inside 90 minutes.
Their relatively ironclad rearguard has recorded two clean sheets in league games on the homestead and poking holes in this will prove tougher than usual for the visiting outfit.
Man City have encountered rugged defences already this season, namely against Everton, Watford and Crystal Palace, though their patience in both games was rewarded with second half goals and, ultimately, wins.
Expect them to do the same here, but not by many.
Recommended bet: Man City to win @ 91/100
Over/Under?
Just three of Man City’s eight games this term have yielded fewer than three goals, but Spurs’ fans are more accustomed to low-scoring affairs.
Five of their opening octet have fallen shy of the 2.5-goal line, all of which occurred inside their six Premier League fixtures.
The most recent meeting between these two also adhered to the unders trend and with both sides demonstrating exemplary clean-sheet keeping techniques throughout the season so far, expect their next altercation to follow suit.
Recommended bet: Under 2.5 goals @ 11/10
Who’s going to score?
Tipping up Sergio Aguero can hardly be considered adventurous, nor is it likely to return a mortgage-waiving profit, but if you want to make money on this match, you needn’t look beyond the Argentine.

Amazingly, he has only found the net in one top-flight fixture thus far, but hasn’t missed out in five straight against Spurs.
His strike rate against this opponent is terrifying from a Lilywhites’ perspective; across the aforementioned quintet he has found the net on nine occasions, five of which were registered in two tear ups last term.
Recommended bet: Sergio Aguero to score two goals
What else should I be betting on?
Four of the Citizens’ six Premier League games have seen more goals registered after the interval, a pattern which is also relevant to as many of Spurs’ last six across all competitions.
Recommended bet: More goals in the second half @ 6/5
This article originally appeared on News.Bwin.com