{"id":1201548,"date":"2021-04-25T18:48:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T17:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1201548"},"modified":"2021-09-10T19:24:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T18:24:00","slug":"manchester-city-1-0-tottenham-spurs-player-ratings-laporte-dias-fernandinho-mahrez-kane-son-lloris-alderweireld","status":"publish","type":"features","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/features\/manchester-city-1-0-tottenham-spurs-player-ratings-laporte-dias-fernandinho-mahrez-kane-son-lloris-alderweireld\/","title":{"rendered":"“An ageless legend” – Player ratings as Pep Guardiola’s magnificent Man City choke out sorry Spurs to win their fourth straight EFL Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a tight afternoon of football, Manchester City dominated Spurs, winning 1-0 to lift their fourth straight Carabao Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The win makes it 25 trophies as a coach for Pep Guardiola (he is the first manager to ever win four consecutive EFL Cups) and his City show no signs of slowing down, dominating opponents even without a recognised striker. Today they ran the show from start to finish.<\/p>\n

Here’s how the players rated at Wembley:<\/p>\n

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Zack Steffen – 6 – <\/strong>Had almost nothing to do.<\/p>\n

Kyle Walker – 7 – <\/strong>Did his usual thing of running fast, defending reasonably well and providing very little in attack.<\/p>\n

Ruben Dias – 8 – <\/strong>Defended well for the whole game, unlucky to be booked. Marshaled the back-line superbly. A superb performance.<\/p>\n

Aymeric Laporte – 8 – <\/strong>Definitely the “main character” of Sunday’s final. In the first-half he was caught out by the pace of Lucas Moura and was very, very lucky to avoid two yellow cards (he picked up one). Then in the second-half, after defending stoutly for the entire match and helping to silence the Spurs forwards, he appeared late in the day to win the trophy for City with a towering header in the 82nd minute. It was an epic goal from a controversial (on the day) figure and while Spurs will grouse about the fact that he was in even on the pitch, in truth his goal only served to dispense footballing justice and ensure the much better side won.<\/p>\n

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Pep Guardiola's side has now kept a clean sheet in nine of his last 10 cup finals:<\/p>\n

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\u26d4\ufe0f vs Athletic Club
\u26d4\ufe0f vs Raja Casablanca
\u26d4\ufe0f vs BVB
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\u26d4\ufe0f vs Arsenal
\u26d4\ufe0f vs Chelsea
\u26d4\ufe0f vs Watford
\u26bd\ufe0f vs Aston Villa
\u26d4\ufe0f vs Spurs<\/p>\n

Mbwana Samatta the only player to score. pic.twitter.com\/pPyIWCZ42Q<\/a><\/p>\n

— Squawka (@Squawka) April 25, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n