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Sports News from Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
2019-04-17
The first leg has ended 1-0 for Tottenham
Hello and good evening again. After the day spent in Turin and Barcelona's victory over Manchester United, we present you the latest round of quarter-final matches in the UEFA Champions League.
Heung-Min Son's late goal on the new White Hart Lane gave Tottenham a slight advantage over Manchester City, who dreams of winning a quad this season.
The two teams will face each other again next Saturday, but before the match against EPL, it will still have to fight for a semifinal ticket to UCL.
Deviating a deficit of a goal is not an impossible task for Pep Guaridola's Manchester City, but against a team from Tottenham who intends to score the history of the competition, it will have to dig very deeply to reach it. .
Harry Kane is definitely away and it will be a blow for Tottenham but Dele Alli is ready to start tonight.
The story does not favor Tottenham with only one win over eight visits to the Etihad, which took place in 2016.
Benjamin Mendy made his first start of the season in EPL on Saturday and could be in training for today's match.
Sergio Aguero, Sterling and Fernandinho are all fit for action tonight.
Mauricio Pochettino is aware of the upcoming challenge and is preparing for it.
"We know that they are so strong and that their pace is very high from the beginning, but it's our challenge: to try to stop them, to be offensive and to attack." must believe that we can stop them and show our quality.
"For us, beating them in the first leg was an incredible result, but we know very well that the tie is always open.What we have is the belief and the confidence that we can be strong. beat."
Elsewhere, FC Porto host Liverpool with the British giants with a 2-goal advantage in the first leg.
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