Ange Postecoglou’s Spurs facet has had one in all its finest outcomes of the season, travelling to Previous Trafford for a 3-0 win over Manchester United and bouncing again from earlier losses to hit the highest half of the Premier League desk.
Brennan Johnson, Dejan Kulusevski and Dominic Solanke received on the scoresheet in a dominating efficiency over 10-man United because the guests ran roughshod over the bedraggled Crimson Devils.
The Spurs have climbed to eighth within the desk on 10 factors after six video games, whereas beleaguered United, who noticed captain Bruno Fernandes despatched off within the forty second minute for a excessive problem on James Maddison, are twelfth, with seven factors in a loss that may once more elevate questions on supervisor Erik ten Hag.
“I believed it was an excellent efficiency,” Postecoglou stated. “We began the sport effectively, scored a fantastic purpose and possibly ought to have had two or three.
“The stress then overwhelms them they usually get the pink card. After that, I believed we managed the sport effectively.
“Simply an excellent effort from all of the lads.”
Tottenham went forward within the third minute when defender Micky van de Ven carried the ball over half the size of the pitch earlier than taking part in a low centre throughout the six-yard field for the wide-open Johnson to faucet in for his fourth purpose in 4 video games.
“Eleven vs 11, or 11 vs 10, we utterly dominated the sport,” Johnson stated. “We had a transparent sport plan and we did precisely what we wished to do.”
The outcome for Postecoglou’s facet was the fourth-straight win throughout three competitions — the Premier League, League Cup and Europa League.
It adopted a 3-1 residence win over Brentford final week as Spurs rebounded from earlier Premier League losses to Newcastle and Arsenal.
The Australian will probably be searching for his crew to consolidate its place and transfer in direction of the European qualification spots and the highest 4, with upcoming video games towards Brighton, West Ham, Crystal Palace, Aston Villa and Ipswich City.
If they’ll put collectively an extended string of wins, they could possibly be difficult by the point they journey north to satisfy defending champions Manchester Metropolis on November 24, Australian time.
Spurs ran circles round United on a nightmare night for Dutchman Ten Hag in wet Manchester.
“To concede a purpose after two or three minutes like that, it did one thing to our perception,” he stated.
“Completely pointless. This isn’t ok. We’ve got to simply accept this and get higher. Deal with the subsequent sport and do issues higher than we did in the present day.”
Tottenham doubled their lead within the forty seventh minute when Lisandro Martinez slipped on the midway line. Johnson sprinted away and his deflected cross fell to Kulusevski, who acrobatically clipped the ball previous goalkeeper Andre Onana.
United followers angered by defeat
Solanke had scores of offended United followers heading for the exits when he caught his leg out to poke the ball residence from shut vary within the 77th minute after Pape Matar Sarr headed on a nook kick from fellow substitute Lucas Bergvall.
The delighted Spurs followers didn’t cease singing all afternoon, breaking right into a chant of “Is there a fireplace drill?” as 1000’s of United followers beat a hasty exit after the third purpose.
“We struggled a bit,” Fernandes stated. “We tried to drive it a bit bit, to hurry it and go too fast. Once they have the excessive line we made errors on the ball after which we received punished and it did not go the way in which we wished from there.
“Then the pink card makes it worse.”
The rating might have been extra lopsided if Spurs, who had 10 pictures heading in the right direction to United’s two, had taken extra possibilities. Onana made a spectacular double save within the second half to maintain out a shot by Timo Werner and Solanke’s try from the rebound.
Alejandro Garnacho had in all probability the very best of United’s alternatives when he rang a shot off the publish late within the first half. Casemiro fired extensive within the second half and smacked himself within the head twice, which summed up United’s frustration.
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