Manchester City 2-2 Tottenham Hotspur: 5 talking points

#1 City miss their clinical edge

Manchester City striker Gabriel Jesus

The conversation about V.A.R and its unpropitious relationship with the Citizens will undoubtedly be a part of the match narrative, as the third assistant once again rescued Spurs from the jaws of defeat, rightfully ruling Gabriel Jesus' injury-time goal out as a result of a handball infraction committed by Aymeric Laporte.

This is the second time in a space of over six months that City feel hard done with a technology that failed to award what the City players felt was a legitimate penalty against Erik Lamela when the Argentine held Rodri back in the box. However verily the men in blue might present their qualms, the undeniable truth remains that had the team been more clinical, they might have taken three points.

The Mancunians had a mammoth ten shots on target to Spurs' two, in total they took twenty shots to their opponents' three yet failed to convert their chances. The clinical edge displayed by the Lilywhites in this match perhaps affords them a degree of reverence, but in the latter stages of the second half, the game was there for the taking. Tottenham had retreated deep into their own and their half-hearted attempts at a counter except for a few conciliatory attempts by Lucas Moura presented the incentive to City.

Pep Guardiola's men did everything right in their build-up play to the Spurs's box, except score when it mattered, and that is what cost them vital points which they might rue in the future, considering an equally adroit Liverpool team that finished only a single point behind them last season will again be a part of the chasing pack.