Son Heung-min continued his blossoming love affair with Tottenham's new stadium as he helped his side overcome the loss of Harry Kane by beating Manchester City 1-0 in the Champions League quarter-final first leg.
We look at five things learned from the game at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium...
Quadruple on the line
Liverpool showed last season that the best way to beat City is to take them on at their own game by pressing high and looking to break with pace.
The problem with that blueprint, however, is teams have to be very good to pull it off. City are good enough to adapt their game and pick off any weaknesses. Spurs have suffered in the past but, on this occasion, they proved they were up to the challenge.
Doubtless feeding off the energy of the fans in their new stadium, they really worried their opponents and grabbed a deserved winner to give themselves a fighting chance of going through. City's quadruple hopes, although far from over, are on the line.
Guardiola said: "Except for a few chances we conceded on set-pieces and counter-attacks we controlled the game.
"We will see if we are going to change it a bit but, with our people, with our fans, our families, we will see.
"If we are not able to arrive in the last stages it is because it is a challenge. The situation is what it is.
"When we don't play good I am the guy who says we didn't play good, but I don't have that feeling.
"With 0-0 you have to (think about whether to) 'attack?' 'defend?'. Now we know what we have to do."
Kane worry
Tottenham will be very concerned about the fitness of Harry Kane after their talisman suffered what looked like another ankle injury in the second half and was carried straight down the tunnel. The England captain has already endured one month-long lay-off for ligament damage in 2019 and there will be fears he could miss the second leg and other vital matches in the run-in.
Handball rule confusion
Mauricio Pochettino is no fan of VAR and the early penalty incident involving Danny Rose will hardly have changed his mind.
City showed not the slightest inclination in appealing for what seemed an obvious case of ball to hand against the Spurs left-back. However, referee Bjorn Kuipers was advised to review the incident and - under UEFA's strict interpretation of handball - was obliged to award the spot-kick.
The controversy was not the role of Kuipers but why the VAR thought he had made a "clear and obvious error" and the way UEFA is applying the handball law.
Backing for Rose
Rose has had a difficult few weeks in the spotlight after being racially abused while on England duty in Montenegro.
So frustrated by how authorities are dealing with that issue, he said last week he "can't wait to see the back" of the game. Spurs supporters certainly got behind their man, with loud chants for him early in the game.
Proud Lilywhites, the Spurs LGBT+ supporters association, also unveiled a banner in support of him.
Victory tainted
If there was anything that could take the gloss off another fine night for Spurs in their new home, it was the supporter who got onto the field in the latter stages.
He did not approach any players - it was Fabian Delph who moved towards him - but it was a concerning security breach.
Opta facts
- Spurs have progressed to the next round on each of the last nine occasions they’ve won the first leg of a European knockout match (excluding qualifiers).
- Manchester City have lost all five of their European matches against English opposition, including all three in the Champions League.
- Son Heung-Min has scored as many goals in 40 games in all competitions this season for Spurs as he managed in 53 appearances in the whole of 2017-18 (18 goals).
- Tottenham Hotspur have won 13 of their last 16 home matches in all competitions (D1 L2).
- Man City’s Sergio Aguero has missed more Champions League penalties than any other player since his debut season in the competition in 2008-09 (four).
- Spurs goalkeeper Hugo Lloris has saved all three of the penalties he’s faced in all competitions in 2019, saving efforts against Leicester City, Arsenal and Man City tonight.
- Manchester City have been eliminated from all three of their previous Champions League knockout matches when they’ve lost the first leg.
- There were eight Englishmen in the starting XI for this match - Rose, Trippier, Winks, Alli and Kane for Spurs, Delph, Walker and Sterling for Man City – the most in a Champions League match since the 2008 final between Chelsea and Manchester United (10).
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