Manchester City has welcomed Etihad to Tottenham Hotspur, hoping the city's title is likely to be in balance.
It seems ridiculous to say that the Premier League match in late November. First of all, the season extends to next May. Lots of time to build a lost field, right?
Arsenal won the next day. So did Chelsea. Liverpool lost to Everton in a late draw and Manchester United City will follow up with a result against Cardiff City.
Anything less than three points for City against a touchdown would be a real problem.
Credit the Sky Blues, so most fans even sat down to control the match, even after the last straw of "Blue Moon" erupted from the Etihad sound system.
City leads 5 seconds later and Tottenham Hotspur has never been trailed on a convincing and much-needed win.
Here are six things we learned from Manchester City 6-0 Tottenham Hotspur.
Having run my son's U8 football team this season, I've used tactics that should never have worked out at the Premier League level.
The main one of them was attacking the ball from the opening touch of the ball.
If our side took the opening touch, we did a set play, trying to create a breakaway from three passes. If their side accepts the opening touch, we jump and try to counter it quickly.
Why? Because these kids were seven years old. As the match began, half of them were barely paying attention, lazily waiting for the ball to come to them and not ready to play any game under pressure.
It worked out in a surprising amount of time, and our unbeaten record was far greater than the amount of time we had led by 1-0 in a minute.
But this sort of thing can never happen to top aviation professionals, right? Ask Andre Villas-Bose.
Manchester City was conveniently caught off to a sleepless start from Tottenham Hotspur, and once Hugo Loris' wrong-footed rebounding got the boot of Sergio Aguero, the goal by Jesus Navas finally seemed inevitable.
