From the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium James Maddison’s Tap-in Tap-in in the first half ensured that Tottenham Hotspur in Manchester United scored the better thriller with a goal.
There was a swollen abundance of wasted opportunities in the type of gripping competition in which the minutes run like seconds. The two fidgeting giants combined 38 shots, but Maddison’s efforts of the 13th minute were the only one who crossed the goal line.
The victory for Spurs raised her into the intoxicating heights of 12, while United continued to work in the 15th place.
How the game unfolds
The sterile excellence of Manchester City and Liverpool has served over the entire season of the Premier League in years of past years. There was never a danger that this quality was in today’s competition.
Both sides may have started the game in the lower seven of the Premier League, but they also represent two of the nine richest clubs in the world. This amazing separation can be explained by injuries and bad luck, but incompetence should not be overlooked.
Guglielmo Vicario had already achieved three parades before Maddison fired in the lead after 13 minutes of Spurs and followed Andre Onana’s shovel rescue. Every wide open outfit seemed to be locked up in an eternal state of shock that the other would try to hit a ball over the top into the extensive room that existed behind each backline.
Spurs turned out to be just as vulnerable when they had the ball. A barely intensive united press forced several cheap sales, one of which led to Bruno Fernandes stepped on the ball in Alejandro Garnacho’s. Unmarked, every eight meters from the goal, the Mercurial winger made his efforts so high that he had flown over two torrents that were stacked on top of each other. Fernandes was not impressed.
When the baby blue sky gradually grew this huge bowl of a stadium before turning a deep navy, Tottenham ended the first half with a strangling area over the process.
This illusion of control turned out to be temporarily, although Tottenham’s threat remained. When the gravity of United’s Setup was looking forward to a compensation forward, Sperte Spurs behind the visiting red shirts to grasp the same waste in front of the gate, which the Red Devils plagued in the first half.
United carried his refusal to the end of the Paxton, when Garnacho and Joshua Zirzkee were guilty of distorted efforts and opportunities.
“I understand the connection to myself and tough – we have the same problems,” Ruben Amorim admitted before the conflict between two managers on Sunday, which were associated with very different play styles. As the Portuguese boss emphasized: “It is important that a trainer follows his principles.”
Postecoglou has not been used in all its funny and faulty fame in all its funny and incorrect fame in the past two months, since the productive number of absent from Tottenham. But with a one -time backline, which was made up of defenders exclusively, Spurs were able to press higher spells of the controlled property on the field – mainly in the first half.
United Trossuld in the well-known 3-4-2-1 form of her head coach despite the club’s fresh fitness crisis. With four recognized central midfielder, Amorim had to use a wild -eyed double frenzy from Fernandes and Casemiro. Both players have to deal with the double questions of this central role when they were set up next to a suitable partner, but their defects were enlarged side by side on Sunday.
The Red Devils were hardly sparse this season, but Tottenham’s record of 22 shots was the highest that they had granted in a game of the Premier League since September – when they were last confronted against Spurs.
Postecoglou recently joked that the light at the end of the tunnel when it came to Tottenham’s injury updates always an oncoming train. In exceptional cases, the Australian had avoided the locomotive with Stoney faces and was able to provide some positive news. Two of the returnees turned out to be particularly effective.
Maddison was in the right place to bundle the opening goal, but he also conveyed a feeling of authority about the process in the middle of the field with what his manager described as a “personality”. The stadium marked its departure in the second half with standing ovations.
At the other end of the field, Vicarios was also tangible. The Italian shooting stop had no longer been discovered with a broken ankle since the last hour of the November win over Manchester City, but decreased from the point where he had stopped and defended an early flood of efforts with its characteristic elasticity.
Vicario showed Garnacho twice after the break with the type of rocky wrist, who was missing his second line -up Antonin Kinsky against Aston Villa last weekend. The often skiing Italian even seemed vague in the air.
While Spurs finally seem to be approaching the conclusion of their fitness difficulties, United has just started.
The irony with the Powerbrokers in Manchester United may not have been lost that Amorim was planned in the same week to call eight teenagers on the bench.
The warming up by Victor Lindelof on the touchline next to the other united spare pieces felt like you are working on a PE teacher who works with his students.
A full -grown injury crisis that excluded ten players in the first team led to this embryonic selection. Nevertheless, Amorim did not turn to the children when he saw Chido Obi in the second half. If United decimates your scouting department as planned, how do you find young people who the head coach is familiar with?
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