Wed 18 November 2020, 14:00
Tottenham HotspurGareth Bale was on target as a spectacular three-goal salvo in seven minutes put Manchester City to the sword in the Premier League back in April, 2013.
Clint Dempsey started the comeback on 75 minutes after City, the reigning champions, took an early lead. Jermain Defoe hit one of the best goals of his 143 for the Club to make it 2-1 and the irrepressible Bale - on a run that would extend to scoring 11 goals in 12 Premier League games - completed the turn around as this memorable victory at the Lane moved us to within a point of Chelsea in fourth in the Premier League with five games remaining.
We won three and drew two of those matches to take our sequence to just two defeats in the last 22 league games in 2012/13. However, one of those draws was at Wigan, later relegated (the other draw was at Chelsea), and that proved costly as we finished a point adrift of Arsenal in fifth.
Spurs 3-1 City - the highlights
Match data
Spurs: Lloris, Walker, Dawson, Vertonghen, Assou-Ekotto, Dembele, Parker (Huddlestone 61), Sigurdsson (Holtby 60), Dempsey, Bale, Adebayor (Defoe 71). Substitutes (not used): Friedel, Caulker, Naughton, Livermore.
Manchester City: Hart, Zabaleta, Kompany, Nastasic, Clichy (Lescott 90+1), Milner (Kolarov 46), Nasri, Barry, Y Toure, Dzeko (Sinclair 83), Tevez. Substitutes (not used): Pantilimon, K Toure, Garcia, Aguero.
Goals: Spurs - Dempsey 75, Defoe 79, Bale 82; City - Nasri 5.
Venue: White Hart Lane.
Attendance: 36,121.
