TOPS
This may be an encouraging performance for the future. Ryan Mason will be able to rely on the state of mind of his players, he who was playing his first match at the head of Tottenham. His team, which had not been able to get up during the slap received against Newcastle last Sunday (6-1), was able to reverse the situation this Thursday evening against the Reds Devils. Logically led 2-0 at the break, the Londoners, very struggling in the first period, showed a completely different face in the second when we thought they were lost. Allowing them to keep a small hope of the Champions League, they who are still 5th six bridges behind Manchester United.
He is the strong man of the Mancunians this season and once again he responded this Thursday. Switched between the left side and the axis (where he was playing at kick-off), Rashford showed that he was efficient in all positions of the Reds Devils attack. Untenable, Tottenham’s defense struggled to contain him, especially during the first 45 minutes. Especially in the 7th minute on Jadon Sancho’s opener, when he got rid of the pressing and offered his 5th assist of the season in the league. And then obviously in the 44th minute, just before the break, when he is forgotten on the left side and plays Dier to mystify Forster with a left foot strike. Proof that he knows how to do everything.
FLOPS
The weeks pass and look alike for the players of Erik ten Hag. Frustration is the fashionable sentiment among Manchester Reds. After experiencing the same scenario in the first leg of the Europa League quarter-final two weeks ago against Sevilla FC at Old Trafford, United are doing it again. There too they led 2-0 at the break (against Sevilla) by mastering their subject, before seeing the Andalusians come back to 2-2 in the last moments of the game. This time it’s Tottenham, but it’s the same result. A thunderous start, 2-0 then 2-2 and the Mancunians could experience a complicated end to the season. You will have to be strong in the heads to get up again and again from such disappointments.
Certainly the turning point of the match. Yes, the Portuguese performed at a good level on the lawn of the Totteham Hotspur Stadium, technically always clean, well inspired offensively… But a few seconds after Pedro Porro’s reduction in the gap (56th) he had the opportunity to fold the match and knock out the hopes of the Spurs who had just been reborn. Unfortunately for him and his teammates, his sting shot found Fraser Forster’s crossbar, leaving Tottenham in the game before Heung-Min Son’s teammates came back. If the ball had gone in Manchester United would certainly have won, but with si…
