Pellegrini: Spurs will be tougher this time

Manuel Pellegrini has warned that Manchester City will be facing a different Tottenham to the side who rolled over twice against the Premier League champions last season.

City triumphed 6-0 at home and 5-1 at White Hart Lane against Spurs in the last campaign, but they have made a promising start under Mauricio Pochettino.

Pellegrini said he has admired Pochettino as an adversary both when the Argentinian was at Espanyol and at Southampton, and does not expect Tottenham to collapse so easily today.