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Manchester City vs Tottenham Hotspur live stream and match preview, Thursday 19 January, 8pm GMT
Manchester City vs Tottenham Hotspur live stream and match preview
Looking for a Manchester City (opens in new tab) vs Tottenham Hotspur (opens in new tab) live stream? We’ve got you covered. Manchester City vs Tottenham Hotspur is on Sky Sports in the UK. Brit abroad? Use a VPN to watch the Premier League with your subscription (opens in new tab) from anywhere.
Manchester City and Tottenham will both be aiming to put weekend derby defeats behind them when they face off at the Etihad Stadium on Thursday night.
City’s hopes of retaining the Premier League title took a big dent as they controversially lost 2-1 away to Manchester United on Saturday, suffering defeat after leading a league game for the first time since the final day of the 2020/21 season.
Spurs, meanwhile, were outclassed as they went down 2-0 at home to Arsenal (who extended their lead over City to eight points) – but they have won four of their last five Premier League encounters with City, most recently edging a 3-2 thriller at the Etihad last February.
Kick-off is at 8pm GMT. Make sure you know how to watch the Premier League (opens in new tab) wherever you are.
Team news
Pep Guardiola and Conte will have almost fully fit squads at their disposal for this one.
City have two players sidelined through injury: centre-backs Ruben Dias and John Stones.
As for Spurs, forward Lucas Moura remains sidelined, while midfield maestro Rodrigo Bentancur is doubtful after missing the North London derby.
Form
They are still just about in the title race, but last week was one to forget for second-placed City: three days before their Manchester derby defeat, they were dumped out of the Carabao Cup in the quarter-finals by Southampton. Guardiola’s side have won seven out of nine home league games this season – although they’ve failed to win either of the last two, losing 2-1 to Brentford and drawing 1-1 with Everton.
Spurs haven’t fared any better since the World Cup, though, winning two, drawing one and losing two of their five games in all competitions. They’ve conceded two goals in three of their four Premier League matches during that time – the exception being a 4-0 victory at Crystal Palace last time out on the road.
Referee
Simon Hooper will be the referee for Manchester City vs Tottenham Hotspur.
Stadium
Manchester City vs Tottenham Hotspur will be played at the 53,400-capacity Etihad Stadium in Manchester.
Kick-off and channel
Manchester City vs Tottenham Hotspur kick-off is at 8pm GMT on Thursday 19 January in the UK. The game is being shown on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Premier League (opens in new tab).
In the US, kick-off time is 3pm ET / 12pm PT. The match will be shown on Peacock Premium (opens in new tab) in the US. See below for international broadcast options.
VPN guide
If you’re out of the country for a Premier League fixture, then you won’t be able to watch on your domestic streaming service as usual. The broadcaster knows where you are because of your IP address (boo!) and blocks you from watching it. You can use a VPN to get around that, though, without resorting to illegal feeds you’ve found on Reddit.
A Virtual Private Network (VPN), assuming it complies with your broadcaster’s T&Cs, creates a private connection between your device and t’internet, meaning the service can’t work out where you are and will let you watch. And all the info going between is entirely encrypted, anonymous and safe – and that’s a result.
There are plenty of good-value options out there. For the Premier League, FourFourTwo currently recommends:
International Premier League TV rights
• UK: Sky Sports (opens in new tab) and BT Sport (opens in new tab) are the two main players once again, but Amazon (opens in new tab) also have a slice of the pie in 2022/23.
• USA: NBC Sports Group are the Premier League rights holders, with the Peacock Premium (opens in new tab) streaming platform showing even more than the 175 games it aired last season. If you pick up a fuboTV subscription (opens in new tab) for the games not on Peacock Premium, you’ll be able to watch every game.
• Canada: The way to watch Premier League football in 2022/23 is fuboTV (opens in new tab), which has exclusive rights to all the action.
• Australia: Optus Sport (opens in new tab) will screen every game of the Premier League season. Non-subscribers can access the action via a Fetch TV box (opens in new tab) and other friendly streaming devices.
• New Zealand: Sky Sport (opens in new tab) are serving up all 380 games – plus various highlights and magazine shows throughout the week, as well as the Champions League.
