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One of the strange themes this season's Premier League is the Jekyll and Hyde nature of Manchester City's performances.

Away from home, the Sky Blues have been dire, losing four times on the road. But they have been fantastic at the Etihad, scoring 22 times in six games.

And yesterday, they netted six times when they battered Tottenham 6 - 0 at home.

Pat Nevin was back for his usual slot on Monday Night Football on Off The Ball tonight and he believes Spurs played into City's hands by playing a ridiculously high line.

"Playing the high line against Man City is suicidal football. There was so much space behind that back line. But AVB won't change it because that's the way he likes to play. It's not normally a problem because Hugo Lloris comes out quickly. But Man City would have made the most of even half of that space.

"But two weeks ago, City were rubbish against Sunderland. There was no spirit and no spark. They're six points behind Arsenal but you feel that Arsenal will have a little slump. Mourinho was saying that Chelsea are nicely tucked in behind the leaders and I suspect Man City feel exactly the same after the weekend."

As for Tottenham, Nevin told Joe that they are missing a really good No 10 who can give them some attacking impetus.

Nevin was also delighted to turn his attention to what he believes could be the best Merseyside derby of them all - and this is a guy who played in a 4 - 4 draw in 1991.

Romelu Lukaku was Everton's goal hero but despite scoring twice, Nevin saw a couple of things which explain why Chelsea are happy to continue loaning him out.

"They gave Lukaku man of the match but he made more mistakes than any other player on the pitch. I'd watched him the week when Chelsea lost to Newcastle and fans were wondering why they don't have Lukaku. But I saw him against Spurs the next day and I realized why Chelsea don't think he can get a game for them. It has nothing to do with his goals but the style Mourinho wants to play. It's all about holding the ball up, chasing down and defending from the front. He has a lot of work to do on that. If he irons out those little deficiencies, you probably have the best centre-forward in the world."

Nevin also took on Ryan Giggs' comments about the way that vocal leaders in the Bryan Robson mould have begun to disappear from football due to the new generation's different upbringing. 

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