Premier League 2018/19: Week 10 Predictions

Spurs v Manchester City

Monday night's match is undoubtedly the highlight of week 10 with the leaders facing a team who are only two points behind them and will expect to mount a serious challenge to the reigning champions.

This has been somewhat of a curate's egg of a season already for Spurs. Despite two early defeats against Liverpool and Watford, they have recovered strongly and now have their best PL points tally ever at this stage of the season.

There have been a lot of goals scored in matches between these two teams in recent years - for example 4-1 and 3-1 wins for Spurs set against a couple of 5-1 victories for City. And last season, the champions comfortably beat Spurs on this same Wembley pitch by 3-1.

Spurs are genuine contenders for a Champions League position, but the truth is they are far away from a PL challenge. City are quite simply the best team in the league both offensivley (most goals scored, most shots, most shots on target) and defensively (least goals conceded, least shots against and least shots on target against).

It seems to me that Spurs aren't quite the team they were last season, while City are. Spurs were comfortably beaten by Liverpool at Wembley earlier in the season. City are a better and more clinical team than Liverpool. 3-1 to the visitors in this Monday night encounter.