Thu 19 January 2023, 10:45
Tottenham HotspurWelcome back to our special feature for 2022/23 - 1 from 30 - as we continue to mark 30 years of the Premier League.
English football's new dawn kicked-off on the weekend of 15/16 August, 1992 as the FA Premier League replaced Barclays League Division One, ending a structure of Division One-Four that had been in place since 1958. Thirty years on, the Premier League is amongst the most watched and most valuable sporting leagues in the world.
In this series, we're featuring a match from those 30 years that corresponds with our next fixture - next up, we're at the Etihad, home of some memorable moments in recent years, for the latest of those moments just last season...
City 2-3 Spurs - 19 February, 2022
Harry Kane put on a masterclass in this memorable victory at the Etihad last season.
The striker scored twice, had another disallowed, a hand in the first goal and pulled the strings throughout on a night that sits alongside Premier League victories in 2010 and 2014.
You could argue that this wasn't the result that triggered such a barnstorming run-in to the season to claim fourth place - don't forget, we lost our next game at Burnley. The catalyst to that arrived the following week, with a 4-0 win at Leeds. But seeds were sown at the Etihad, in one of the most thrilling matches we've seen in the Premier League era - and City would go on to pip Liverpool to take the 21/22 title by a point.
We struck early as Dejan Kulusevski scored his first goal for the Club, a tap in after Harry released Heung-Min Son, who drew Ederson before squaring to Deki.
Ilkay Gundogan levelled on 33 minutes but we were soon back in front in the second half as Sonny delivered a cross superbly dispatched by Harry, who was then denied by Ederson and had a goal disallowed as we looked so dangerous on transition.
However, a penalty awarded by VAR for handball and tucked away by Riyad Mahrez two minutes into added time threatened to take victory away, but we would not be denied... as the seconds ticked away, Deki got down the right and delivered a cross made for Harry to attack, and there was no stopping him as he powered the winning header home. What a night!
Spurs: Lloris, Romero, Dier, Davies, Royal (Doherty 83), Bentancur, Hojbjerg, Sessegnon (Sanchez 90+3), Kulusevski, Son (Lucas 80), Kane.
