Tottenham emerged as 5-0 winners when these sides last met in a competitive fixture, in the fourth round of the FA Cup in January 2023. <\/p>\n
But two years on London City are an altogether different outfit and have already shown they can compete with the big names in their debut WSL season.<\/p>\n
They produced a rugged display against Chelsea last weekend and matched the reigning champions with three shots on target – albeit they lost 2-0. <\/p>\n
And they built on that performance here, stunning in-form Tottenham with an early opener from 20-year-old Arsenal academy graduate Godfrey and showing plenty of character after Spurs levelled twice. <\/p>\n
Their counter-attacking style proved dangerous without the end product at Stamford Bridge but it worked to a tee on Sunday as Parris finished off a quick break that also involved Asllani and Godfrey to make it 2-1.<\/p>\n
It was a special occasion for former Manchester City and Manchester United forward Parris, who had also scored in her 50th and 100th WSL appearances, but Spurs threatened to spoil the party with Summanen’s equaliser. <\/p>\n
However, Sangare headed Asllani’s free-kick into the path of Spurs defender Nilden to force an own goal before Godfrey, part of the England Under-23 set-up, grabbed the headlines with her second moments later. <\/p>\n
With their four defeats so far coming against last season’s top four of Chelsea, Arsenal, United and City, London City boss Precheur will be confident his side can keep their good run going against Aston Villa in their next game. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham emerged as 5-0 winners when these sides last met in a competitive fixture, in the fourth round…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-253238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}