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Dan Kilpatrick, Tottenham Correspondent 8y

Stopping Sergio Aguero key for Tottenham - Kevin Wimmer

Tottenham Hotspur defender Kevin Wimmer says that Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero only needs one chance to score, but insists that Spurs can win at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday.

Second-place Spurs are a point ahead of Manchester City going into Sunday's crunch clash, and key to a fifth successive league victory for the 23-year-old Wimmer will be stopping Aguero, who has scored seven goals in his last five appearances, and boasts 18 in 25 outings this term.

"Aguero is one of the best strikers in the world and we will try not to give him space. It's never easy to defend against a striker like this over the whole 90 minutes, but when we get chances against Man City we have to score and it's also possible that we'll win there," Wimmer told Ham & High.

"With strikers like [Robert] Lewandowski or Aguero, maybe over the course of the 90 minutes you think 'they are not so dangerous today', but they only need one action in the game to score, and that always shows the big quality they have.

"I think it's like that with Aguero. You always have to be careful, you always have to mark him well and defend well over the whole 90 minutes because when he gets one opportunity the chance is very high that he will score. I think that's the big difference with strikers like this -- that they only need one chance to score."

Spurs are yet to concede a league goal with Wimmer on the pitch after the Austrian replaced the injured Jan Vertonghen for the final 15 minutes of the 3-1 win at Crystal Palace before starting the 3-0 victory at Norwich and the 1-0 win over Watford on Saturday.

While Spurs have won six consecutive matches since losing 1-0 to Leicester City last month, City are reeling from the 3-1 home defeat to the Foxes on Saturday, though Wimmer believes the pressure will be on the hosts to put it right against Tottenham.

"I think it's not that bad that they lost because now they have big pressure -- they are behind us, they know they have to win," he added.

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