Man City vs Tottenham live early team news plus kick-off time and how to watch

Hello and welcome to live coverage of Manchester City's Premier League encounter with Tottenham.

The Blues return to action after the international break hoping to arrest a worrying slide in form which has seen them lose four straight games in all competitions and slip five points adrift of leaders Liverpool in the top flight. But City were handed a huge pre-match boost with the news that boss Pep Guardiola has committed his future to the club and signed for another two years.

That topic dominated the pre-match chatter ahead of this evening's clash while Guardiola could also welcome back some of his walking wound as the City injury crisis which has blighted them all season begins to ease somewhat.

Kick off against Spurs tonight is 5.30pm and we will have all the build-up, action, reaction and analysis right here so stay with the blog.

Some strong stuff from Pep Guardiola in City's press conference yesterday.

He believes 75% of the Premier League's 20 clubs want Manchester City to be relegated for breaching financial rules.

A hearing into City's 115 alleged breaches of the Premier League's financial regulations continues in London. A verdict in the trial is not expected until well into the New Year.

But Guardiola insists most of the club's rivals have already decided about the case and want City to be thrown out of a league they have won for four successive seasons. The Catalan revealed on Friday that he loves the task of defending the club in public, with questions about those charges a regular occurrence at his pre-match press conferences, but he doesn't spend his time away from the media theatre thinking about the various off-pitch issues City are embroiled in, including a row with the Premier League over