Tottenham v Manchester City: Champions League, quarter-final, first leg – live! | Soccer

A big and old mosaic in this new big stand: To dare, that is to do is the message of the fans of Tottenham. Their team will need a lot of courage against this lot.

Pep Guardiola speaks! "It's a stadium. Still in the Champions League, the fans are noisy. The calendar is what it is. We trained to prepare ourselves well. We periodized after the tough match against Brighton. We tried to manage it. Bernardo is injured and Kevin de Bruyne could play but I decided David Silva in that position. When you play every three days, everyone is needed. "

It was a big win for Tottenham against Crystal Palace last week, and not just because it was in their new stadium. They felt rather weak after a bad race, four losses out of five leaving them the risk of losing their place in the top four. They are not out of the wood yet, however. They really can not afford to make mistakes in the back and must be fatal in front of goal. City have had their number recently.

Bernardo Silva came out as a precaution. He injured his thigh at training yesterday.

It's the top job of these Tottenham fans. A few depressing months for English football – but it's always good to remember that there are good people.

This sounds like one of those team selections that could go wrong for Pep Guardiola. Abandoning Kevin de Bruyne is a risk, but Bernardo Silva must have a shot. It's a pretty conservative selection. Tottenham hopes to target Fabian Delph in the left-back and it's also a big night for Riyad Mahrez. He scored the winning goal when these teams met at Wembley in the league, but he had a tough first season with City. That said, the City bench is fantastic and Guardiola probably knows more about football than I do.

Tottenham brought a change to the team that beat Crystal Palace last week, including Harry Winks in Ben Davies' steak allowing Mauricio Pochettino to go from 3-5-2 to 4-2. -3-1. Eric Dier, Serge Aurier and Erik Lamela are injured. Toby Alderweireld and Son Heung-min are reserved from a ban.

Manchester City picks a slightly surprising team after reaching the FA Cup final at Brighton's expense. Fabian Delph, Fernandinho, Riyad Mahrez and Sergio Aguero are back. leave Benjamin Mendy, Kevin Bruyne, Bernardo Silva and Gabriel Jesus. Does Pep Guardiola think of Sunday's trip to the Crystal Palace? This is not the strongest side of the city. Nicolas Otamendi and Aguero are on the verge of a ban.

Tottenham: Lloris; Trippier, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Rose; Sissoko, winks of the eye; Eriksen, Alli, son; Kane. Subs: Gazzaniga, Foyth, Davies, Sanchez, Wanyama, Lucas, Llorente.

Manchester City: Ederson; Walker, Laporte, Otamendi, Delph; Fernandinho, Gundogan, D Silva; Mahrez, Aguero, Sterling. Subs: Muric, Kompany, Stones, De Bruyne, Sane, Jesus, Foden.

Arbitrator: Bjorn Kuipers (Netherlands)

Hello. According to Kevin De Bruyne, a stadium is nothing special. These are just buildings with seating, turnstiles, toilets, large screens, bars, club-tunnels and luxury cheese rooms. Everyone has fans. There is really no need to exaggerate. Unless you are His Heung-min, it is. Forward Tottenham Hotspur has a different perspective than his counterpart in Manchester City. He believes that Tottenham's glorious comeback on his former pitch could make all the difference in the quarter-finals of the Champions League. "Maybe the City players do not realize it because they are still playing at home, but we are almost two years away from our stadium," said South Korea. "We missed a lot at home and we can show City the difference between Wembley and our new stadium." Clinical logic, meets a hopeless romanticism; you probably will not agree with each other.

Only one way to settle this argument, then, and that is to play the game. And the good news is that it has all the qualities of a cracker. Tottenham, who no longer needs to play at Wembley, will necessarily be the most intense of his second match on his new pitch (which, in fact, really looks like an architectural triumph). They already seem to be adapting to their new environment, beating Crystal Palace here last Wednesday, and hoping to make the most of their country's advantages against the Premier League champions. If Harry Kane is in a mood mood, if His has his shooting boots, if Christian Eriksen and Dele Alli feel the sense of creativity flow and if Hugo Lloris does not plan to doze off during the match, the evening could be famous. for the side of Mauricio Pochettino.

City arrive in North London warned. They faced the opposition of the Premier League at this stage last year and were swept away by the first leg on one of those famous European nights at Anfield. They were 3-0 at halftime against Liverpool and the charge was that they could not handle the atmosphere, which means that Tottenham fans will know what their job is. Locals, fully aware of their oppressed status, will want to make City vibrate by making it as noisy as possible. Expect the noise! Expect to whistle! Expect every contact with the city to be booed during the early stages! A narrative invites, people! It's not surprising that De Bruyne talks about all this boredom yesterday.

Mind you, it's probably worth pointing out that it's not just the atmosphere. Far from there. Players in the city should be able to handle it and keep their cool. Then, it will be a question of whether they are kind enough to maintain their badault on the domination of the world on four fronts (or five, if we believe Pep Guardiola, who is very upset that no one counts the shield Community). In all likelihood, the answer to this question is yes, which means that Tottenham will need a very good tactical plan to stand out. City has won the last three games between these two teams by a total score of 8-2 and will punish the defensive errors of the Pochettino players. The trials arrive quickly and quickly for Guardiola's players and a tedious schedule could still catch up, but for the moment, you have to make history. They will not want a pesky stadium.

Start: 20h local time