Putting aside the question of yellows for Laporte and Regulion, 2 things which cannot be denied -
Firstly City completely overwhelmed Spurs and anything other than victory would have been a travesty. It amuses me when teams like City have 80% of the play, 29 shots to 2 and play some wonderful attacking football without much luck while the defending side are pinned in defence and throw their bodies on the line and then get a break away goal and boldly claim “a deserved victory”. I am thinking here of our games v Spurs earlier in the season and the recent game v Leeds
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Secondly Harry Kane once again went missing in a big game ( and cry baby Son was even worse). Unfortunately for Kane he was not playing against San Marino with the chance to become a national hero with 2 penalties and a goal line tap in. I know someone will use the fact he was recently injured but so was De Bruyne and yesterday he was outstanding
My lingering memory of the game is Kane being subjected to a superb tackle that took the ball cleanly. He had a momentary think about it and then histrionically threw himself to the floor, complete with facial contortion and associated scream. And this is supposed to be the captain of England, for god's sake! Many players are doing this routinely but I can only think of one who is worse than Kane for these charades. 
Indeed - and the part of his body he clutched while squeelling was nowhere near where any contact may (or may not) have happened. Its a game to play when bored, watch one of these seemingly near fatal challenges in slow motion and spot where the contact it and then where the player clutches. Its rarely the same limb, let alone same place on the body!
Nearly matched by Joao Cancelo who fell over under minimal contact but jumped 5 feet in the air when he was touched. No wonder players are getting injured when they bring it in themselves!
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