Man City 0-4 Tottenham: Postecoglou Hails 'Outstanding' Maddison After Spurs Crush Reigning Champions

Ange Postecoglou heaped praise on James Maddison after he bagged a brace to help beat Manchester City 4-0 at the Etihad Stadium. (More Football News)
 
Maddison scored twice on his 28th birthday to give Spurs a 2-0 lead at half-time before Pedro Porro and Brennan Johnson scored to hand the Pre𓂃mier League champions their fifth s🌳traight defeat across all competitions. 

The England international, who joined Tottenham from Leicester City last year, haꦓs now scored five goals and created three assists in 𒀰the Premier League this season. 

"[Maddison] was outstanding," Tottenham b꧟oss Postecoglou told Sky Sports after the win. 

"You have to be against City, and Madders was great. He’s gone through a lean spell but I never doubted his ability. I thought༒ the kind of game we were expecting would suit him.

"I thought we'd need his ability to keep the ball in ti🐭ght midfield areas. I take it personally on myself if p🃏layers aren't reaching their level, that’s on me to get him back up there."

With the win, Tottenham moไved into sixth place and are only four points behind Pep Guardiola's side, who are in second p♈lace.

It was just the th🅰ird time a team won away against the reigning Premier League champions by four goals or more. 

"It’s significant, when you understand the context of who we were playing," Posꦺtec♏olgou talked about the scoreline. 

"I’m proud of the lads, the football we played, the resilience and🐭 discipline we showed. When you play Citꦺy, they test every aspect of your game and we handled that well.

Spurs had initiated City's losing run with a 2-1 win against Guardiola's sid𒅌e in the EFL Cup last 16, 𓃲but Postecolgou's side have also had their fair share of struggles, losing to Ipswich Town 2-1 at home before the international break. 

"It was an important game for us, the way the boys reacted [to defea༒t to Ipswich]. It’s easy when you’re under pressure to splinter off, but I never got the sense that would happen this week," the Australian🌳 said. 

"꧅The disappointing thin💯g over the last few games is we’ve fallen well short of the kind of team we want to be. But I've no doubt we are on the right track."

Guardiola's joint-biggest defeat of his managerial career also en🗹ded City's longest-ever unbeaten run at home in all competitions (52 games) and the defending champions will now switch their attention to the Champions League tie against Feyenoord on Tuesday. 

Tottenham, meanwhile, face Roma in the Europa L൩eague on Thursday.