Tottenham thrashed Manchester United at Old Trafford with 6-1 win and handed them worst defeat in clubs history. Manchester United players lack of urgency and aggression continues, poor coaching costing them in big way.
Son Heung-min and Harry Kane both scored twice as Tottenham Hotspur claimed a remarkable 6-1 victory against 10-man Manchester United at Old Trafford.
Spurs had to come from behind as Man Utd’s Bruno Fernandes rolled in a second-minute penalty after Anthony Martial was fouled by Davinson Sanchez.Tanguy Ndombele equalized from close range two minutes later, before quick thinking by Kane allowed Son, who started after recovering from a hamstring injury last weekend, to apply a sublime finish on seven minutes.
On 28 minutes, Martial was sent off for an altercation with Erik Lamela, before Kane fired in from Son’s pass on the half-hour.Son turned in his second, and Spurs’ fourth, eight minutes before the break.
Six minutes after half-time, Serge Aurier drilled in a fifth. Kane converted Spurs’ sixth goal from the penalty spot on 79 minutes after Paul Pogba fouled Ben Davies.Spurs move up to fifth place on seven points, while Man Utd are 16th on three points.
Manchester United lack a strong leader on the pitch, They need to sell Paul Progba sooner than later, he is too passive on the pitch. Ole and coaching staff needs to do better job in the training ground.
Match Stats
| Manchester United | Tottenham Hotspur | |
|---|---|---|
| 38 | Possession % | 62 |
| 2 | Shots on target | 8 |
| 5 | Shots | 22 |
| 585 | Touches | 854 |
| 405 | Passes | 667 |
| 15 | Tackles | 23 |
| 9 | Clearances | 16 |
| 2 | Corners | 4 |
| 1 | Offsides | 0 |
| 2 | Yellow cards | 1 |
| 1 | Red cards | 0 |
| 14 | Fouls conceded | 10 |
What Next ?
- After International break ,Man Utd will visit Newcastle on 17th Oct to take on Steve Bruce men.
- Spurs will host West Ham on 18th October.
Manchester United Manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Post-Match reaction:
After the match, while talking to Sky Sports, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer felt individual mistakes and a lack of aggression were key factors as Manchester United suffered a painful 6-1 home defeat to Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday afternoon.
On the final result
“After 2-1, we’re still in the game. You don’t win games of football by making individual mistakes, errors, making a performance like that.”
“Well of course when we get the start we did, you think, ‘Yeah, we’ve got the game where we want it.’ And then you make a few bad decisions and you’re suddenly two or three-one down. Of course it’s alarming. It’s nowhere near good enough. I hold my hand up. It’s my decision to pick the team I did and we, us as a squad, that’s not good enough for Man United.”
“Yeah of course. It’s nowhere near good enough. And when you have a defeat like this, which has happened at the club before, you’ve just got to look yourself in the mirror. They’re lucky now, the boys, or I don’t know if it is lucky, but they’re going away on international duty some of them and for the ones who are staying here, we’ve got a good [amount of] time to work. But we don’t [all] see each other for ten days and that’s hard now because we need to batten down the hatches and get together because that wasn’t anywhere near good enough as a squad or a team.”
On MARTIAL’S RED CARD
“It’s no excuse. But he must be having an operation in his throat, the boy. It’s a bad reaction by Anthony [though]. No excuse because the game’s not lost there and then but we were in the game by then. If that [Lamela] was one of my players, I would absolutely hang him up to dry because you don’t go down like that. If Ant had gone down, it could have been going the other way. But he shouldn’t react like that.”
On need to sign New Defenders and Transfer updates
“We defend as a team, we defend from the front, we defend as a group and whoever we’re linked with doesn’t mean it’s true, does it? We’re going to be linked with players all day long but we need as a group and a team to get the performances as we were before the lockdown or after the restart, when we were a very good defensive team and we didn’t concede loads of goals. With the talented players [we have] it’s something I have to look at because we can’t be as open as we were today.”
“Well, we’ll probably update you or we’ll know by tomorrow night when the window’s closed, but that [today’s performance] isn’t about getting players in. This is about who’s here and getting the best out of the ones who are here and today was the worst that you can get from these. I can’t say anything other than that.”
