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Can Tottenham stop Man City striker Sergio Aguero?

Sergio Aguero celebrates scoring Manchester City's opening goal against Chelsea
Image: Sergio Aguero has 10 goals in eight appearances against Spurs

Tottenham must find a way to stop Sergio Aguero on Sunday - no current Premier League player has scored more times against them.

Spurs successfully contained the Manchester City striker earlier this season, when they thrashed Manuel Pellegrini's side 4-1 at White Hart Lane. However, Aguero has enjoyed plenty of success against Spurs at the Etihad - the venue for one of this weekend's crunch title race encounters - and is in ominous form.

The Argentina international has scored seven goals in his last five outings for City in all competitions, and has 18 goals in 25 appearances this season in all competitions.

Sergio Aguero misses the rebound from his team's second penalty attempt - still 2-1
Image: Aguero scored all four in City's 4-1 home win over Spurs in 2014

Against Spurs, Aguero has scored 10 times in eight appearances, including all four in City's 4-1 home win in October 2014.

Manchester United's Wayne Rooney has also hit the net 10 times against Spurs but has taken 18 appearances to do so.

PL goals v Spurs - current players

Player Goals Games
Sergio Aguero 10 8
Wayne Rooney 10 18
Emmanuel Adebayor 6 10
Samir Nasri 4 11
Theo Walcott 4 11

In Premier League history, only Alan Shearer (14 goals in 24 games) and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (11 goals in 16 games) have scored more goals against Spurs than Aguero.  

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However, Aguero is averaging 1.25 goals-per-game against Spurs, a strike-rate none of the other 12 players to have hit at least seven against Tottenham can better.

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The 27-year-old will come up against an extremely strong Tottenham defence on Sunday, though.

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Spurs have conceded the fewest goals in the Premier League this season (19) and, despite an injury to regular centre-back Jan Vertonghen, have kept clean sheets in their past two Premier League fixtures. 

PL goals v Spurs

Player Goals Games
Alan Shearer 14 24
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink 11 16
Sergio Aguero 10 8
Les Ferdinand 10 12
Wayne Rooney 10 18
Ryan Giggs 10 36
Dion Dublin 9 14
Kevin Davies 8 22
Ruud van Nistelrooy 7 9
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer 7 11
Robert Pires 7 12
Frank Lampard 7 15

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