The video of Julián Álvarez’s goal, in Manchester City’s victory against Tottenham in the Premier League

Manchester City carried out a memorable match against Tottenham as a local, to take the three points after winning 4-2 in a pending Premier League match, corresponding to date 7. The team led by Pep Guardiola had come off two consecutive falls and had to recover to keep an eye on Arsenal, who in the run-up to this match had taken no less than eight units from the citizen team, which remains in second position. Julián Álvarez converted his team’s first goal when the visitor won 2-0.

Guardiola surprised locals and strangers with the starting lineup. He left the likes of Kevin De Bruyne, Phil Foden and Bernardo Silva on the bench, to change the usual 4-3-3 to a 4-4-2, with Erling Haaland and the Argentine Álvarez as forwards. Despite this decision, the plan did not work for him in the first half. He went to rest losing 2 to 0 (goals from Dejan Kulusevski and Emerson) and almost no shots on goal, a pending debt in recent days.

The Spaniard decided to start the match in the same way, but had a totally different attitude from his team. Julián was in charge of discounting at 51 ‘, taking advantage of a fortuitous rebound in the area that stung him so that he defined hard and volleyed inside the goal of the small area, after both the German Ilkay Gündogan and the English Jack Grealish could not define against the rival brand.

Then it would be Haaland’s turn, who equalized the match barely two minutes after the ‘Spider’s’ goal, with an accurate header after an assist, also with a header, from the Algerian Riyad Mahrez. With the equalizer, Tottenham fell completely and could not carry out a game that was under control for 45 minutes. Mahrez himself was in charge of sealing the game by scoring the third and fourth goals.

The first in his personal account came ‘handsome’, as they say in Argentina. He dropped a ball with excellent quality against Ivan Perisic’s mark and entered the area with pure power to define with his less skilled leg, the right, when it had almost no angle, so that the ball entered the far post with some complicity from the French goalkeeper Hugo Llorís. The last one came almost in stoppage time: Ederson took a long shot and Clément Lenglet had an inexplicable mistake so that the former Leicester City faced the goal and defined with subtlety over Llorís.