THE STRIKER: previews Sunday’s Carabao Cup final from Wembley between MAN CITY v TOTTENHAM with extended stats and a recommended BETDAQ bet.

The Striker is a professional football punter who focused solely on football in the UK. He has over ten years of experience using exchanges and he’s been a full-time professional punter for more than five years. UK football is his edge and he sticks to it!

Thankfully The Striker has agreed to share his best bets with BETDAQ Tips! He will use a staking system between one and five points to give readers a clue as to how confident he is with each individual bet. He uses his own analysis to price up matches and loves advanced stats like xG, goal stats and current form.

MANCHESTER CITY V TOTTENHAM

4.30pm What an incredible week it’s been! Before the kick off time of the Carabao Cup Final this time last week the European Super League hadn’t been announced, and now gone, and Jose Mourinho was manager of Spurs. The European Super League lasted less than 48 hours with Manchester City coming out as one of the first teams to pull out and one has to wonder what was going on behind the scenes for Spurs to sack Jose Mourinho in the week before a big Final. I know football moves fast these days, but could it get any faster than this week!

Regardless of all the drama, we’re set for a fantastic Final between two quality sides. It’s been a busy week of Premier League action and both sides won 2-1 on Wednesday evening, Spurs grinding out a win over Southampton after going behind and City also went 1-0 down early but won 2-1 even with a man sent off in the first half. I was very interested to see what kind of reaction we would get from the Spurs players after Jose Mourinho was sacked but I was a little underwhelmed – to be honest there wasn’t much change, and they conceded an xG of 1.33 to a Southampton side who have been on a pretty poor run lately.

I’m sure Manchester City will have a lot of fans at 1.5 on BETDAQ Betting Exchange , and you can include me in the that group. Spurs have been all over the place this season – remember when they were “title challengers” for a few weeks at the start of the season, then they went all the way down to mid-table, then Jose seemed to turn it around and now they are back to trying to get into the Europa League with Harry Kane saying he’s leaving in the summer if they don’t get into the Champions League! Behind the scenes must have been very bad to sack Mourinho, and there was probably a little bit of bitterness in it too not giving him the chance to win a trophy for Spurs after it’s been so long since they won anything.

When you compare Spurs to Man City, they are levels apart. City have been excellent since around Christmas time and they haven’t let up since. They would have been very disappointed to lose to Chelsea in the FA Cup here recently but Chelsea are a better side than Spurs and the 1.5 on City just looks too big here. They are a far more settled side than Spurs, and with Spurs giving away a lot of chances recently it’s hard to see how City don’t take advantage of that. The 1.5 is big enough for a Max Bet for me, as I can’t see past City winning this game.

The Striker Says:
Five points win Manchester City to beat Tottenham at 1.5 with BETDAQ Betting Exchange

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MATCH STATS

  • Manchester City are looking to win the League Cup for a joint-record eighth time (level with Liverpool), while they could also become just the second team to win the competition in four consecutive campaigns (Liverpool, 1981-1984).
  • Tottenham’s last major trophy win came in this competition back in 2008, beating Chelsea 2-1 at Wembley under Juande Ramos. This is their third appearance in the final since then, losing against Manchester United in 2009 and Chelsea in 2015.
  • Both Tottenham (W4 L4) and Manchester City (W7 L1) are competing in their ninth different League Cup final, with only Liverpool (12) having played in more. Only Liverpool (8) have won more than Man City, while only Arsenal (6) have lost more than Spurs.
  • In the previous seven seasons, the English League Cup has been won by either Manchester City (’14, ’16, ’18, ’19, ’20) or a José Mourinho side (Chelsea, ’15, Man Utd, ’17), with Pep Guardiola’s Citizens lifting the trophy in each of the last three campaigns.
  • This is the second time Tottenham and Man City are facing off in a major domestic cup final, with Spurs winning the 1981 FA Cup against the Citizens following a replay. Tottenham v Man City will be the 17th different fixture to have been played in the final of the both the League Cup and the FA Cup.
  • Tottenham have won all three of their previous League Cup meetings with Manchester City, winning in round three in 1992-93, round four in 2003-04 and the quarter-final en route to winning the trophy in 2007-08.
  • When playing at the ground as a neutral venue, Tottenham have lost each of their last five matches at Wembley Stadium, shipping at least two goals each time. Spurs also lost both of their Premier League games against Man City at Wembley when using it as a home ground.
  • 25th April is the latest a League Cup final has taken place since 1990 (29th April), with Brian Clough’s Nottingham Forest beating Joe Royle’s Oldham Athletic 1-0.
  • Man City boss Pep Guardiola is looking to become the first manager to win the League Cup in four consecutive seasons. The Citizens haven’t lost any of their last 19 ties in the competition, since being eliminated by Manchester United in October 2016.
  • Sergio Agüero scored in Man City’s League Cup final victories in both 2018 and 2020 and could become the first player to score in three different League Cup finals since Didier Drogba (2005, 2007, 2008).
  • Harry Kane is the all-time leading club scorer at Wembley Stadium, scoring 31 goals in 44 appearances there for Spurs, scoring eight in his last 10 club games at Wembley. There’s only been two English scorers in the last seven League Cup finals – John Terry in 2015 and Jesse Lingard in 2017.
  • As it stands, Yaya Touré and David Silva are the only players to have scored in both a League Cup and an FA Cup final for Manchester City. Kevin De Bruyne, Gabriel Jesus and Raheem Sterling could all join this list having scored for the Citizens in their 2019 FA Cup final triumph.
  • This will be Ryan Mason’s second game in charge of Tottenham – the last manager to take charge of an English club in a major final as early as his second game at the helm was Luton Town’s Syd Owen, whose first such match was the 1959 FA Cup final.