[buchansleftleg]

I'm really happy about today's game for all the reasons people have already said but with one addition.

I've really enjoyed seeing flashes of excellence from Cavani but today we saw him leading the attack in full flow.

We had become used to Martial and Lukaku's poor performances over the last few years with others playing a bit part role in failure.

If Cavani chooses to go at the end of the season I will be disappointed, but ultimately thankful for showing us all once more what an effective, talented centre forward looks like, rather than the dross of recent years.

 

[sglowrider]

Some posts, tweets etc by so called united fans are embarrassing and racists. Im sorry, very happy for the win, but very embarrassed to be a united fan at all the racism towards Son. Its not like he made the refs stupid call.

Someone needs to call these so called man united fans out for being racist on social media. Shame on you.

Ignorant fools. Tofu soup's Chinese too.

 

[SirMattlives]

I too hope Edi stays, he's shown enough this year to suggest he can give us something extra and I'd just love to have the fans around him when he plays at OT -- his commitment is a model to others and some of his touch and movement is just sublime. Disappointed that Son is receiving racist abuse as this will deflect attention from his actions on the pitch today. Am not too concerned with putting one over on Jose, he was our manager once after all, more surprised that he has become a caricature of his former self. But my overarching feeling is pleasure with the way we played as a team. This felt like United.

 

[syrian_scholes]

No tofu soup or Korean BBQ for you tonight Sonny

Oh because he is Korean? So funny and not at all racist.

 

[antohan]

GIF of the disallowed goal anyone? @GifLord ?

 

[Dargonk]

Great result. Cavani basically being key to most of the goals today, including the disallowed one.

 

[Suedesi]

Oh because he is Korean? So funny and not at all racist.

How so? Tofu soup and Korean BBQ is delicious. Some people are so ignorant!!!

 

[RedBanker]

How so? Tofu soup and Korean BBQ is delicious. Some people are so ignorant!!!

I would recommend no food for Son's father and Son's coach too! One for raising such a prick and another for mindlessly defending such a prick.

 

[Tony247]

Tottenham filthy
Ref awful
VAR taking it too far as usual with a disallowed great goal for us.
1st half major injustice in general, could have been mentally done in by it. Day all set for smug spurs, Jose and another media field day.

2nd half outstanding, quite literally some of the best football we've played in a long time.
Movement off the ball. One touch. Positioning in transition was on the money.
Pogba embarrassed them in the left channel time and time again. 9 for him.
Cavani hungry and a menace. 9
Bruno was decent as an outlet despite the usual flagrancy with the ball. Drew a fantastic save from Lloris off a left foot shot from range.

A very very good day at the office made sweeter by the swing in emotion.

Thanks.

 

[Gator Nate]

Unpopular opinion: We didn't play that badly the first half.

Anyway... What a game! Pogba was fire! And as bad as the VAR situation was, and the ref was, I wouldn't change a thing. The outcome was incredible. So was our drive the second half.

Henderson commands his box in a way that De Gea does not. Every time the ball was in his hands, he was directing traffic, or putting it out fast for an opportunity. And he came out of the box at least twice to beat an attacker and give the defense room. His distribution is superior to De Gea. This is not just one game. Sorry, but De Gea is the past, Henderson is the present.

Cavani was a cool customer, not going on tilt after his goal was rescinded.

Everyone else was good or better.

Now to finish off Granada.

 

[Galactic]

For our first goal, I would be fuming if i am their defensive coach. You follow the runners. Protest later.

 

[Alek M]

Pogba 9
Cavani 9
Fred 9
Greenwood 9
Dean 9
AWB 9 kept Son quiet

What a dominant performance by Pogba. Fred was everywhere. McT too. We won so many balls in midfield.
Great line up by Ole. With healthy Rashford this would be a tough to beat side. Our best performance in years.

 

[The Mitcher]

How so? Tofu soup and Korean BBQ is delicious. Some people are so ignorant!!!

I love how they don't get the reference to Ole's dinner quote.

 

[Tincanalley]

Oh because he is Korean? So funny and not at all racist.

Point made. We need to stay classy.

 

[Macern]

Pogba 9
Cavani 9
Fred 9
Greenwood 9
Dean 9
AWB 9 kept Son quiet

What a dominant performance by Pogba. Fred was everywhere. McT too. We won so many balls in midfield.
Great line up by Ole. With healthy Rashford this would be a tough to beat side. Our best performance in years.

Awb 9 is mental. Way out of position causing the 1-0 goal. Also struggled a few times letting the spurs player take shots around him/between his legs. Thankfully Deano was excellent.

 

[taka]

Just happy that we beat them......Well done!

 

[mikel]

I've not been the biggest Ole fan but I have to admit he hit the right notes today. Good all around performance today, one of the best this season.

 

[MinGin]

I don’t understand how we can go from so utterly hopeless to brilliant between halves. I wonder what’s in the half time tea.

Big shout out to AWB today – I thought he was a one man right wing and it makes us so much more irrepressible when we can attack down both sides.

For the first time in ages, we won a big game and it feels like the right flank was more instrumental than the left.

Would it be a tactic that to save some energy in one half and fight in another half due to the tough fixture?
Because we always look day and night in both half.

Anyway, we are extended our unbeaten Premier League away run to 23 games, only Arsenal (27 games : April 2003 – September 2004) is ahead in this record ! But we are in this crazy fixture.

 

[Slevs]

Pogba 9
Cavani 9
Fred 9
Greenwood 9
Dean 9
AWB 9 kept Son quiet

What a dominant performance by Pogba. Fred was everywhere. McT too. We won so many balls in midfield.
Great line up by Ole. With healthy Rashford this would be a tough to beat side. Our best performance in years.

Too generous for AWB that score, you didn't take into consideration that Son almost died in the first half from a finger to the face. Its a miracle he lived tbh.

 

[mitchmouse]

Stunning second half performance - if we at some stage remember to play in the first half we might even start to win trophies again!

I know most people will pick Pogba as MoM and he was very, very good but Cavani was the difference; world class. I advise those who haven't seen it to watch Alex Scott's summary on Match of the Day (she is a really good pundit). I think this is the first time all season when we've destroyed the opposition where Bruno wasn't on fire - and (oh, I really hope I'm right on this) the day Ole came of age as United manager: acccording to Scotty he kept them calm at half time; I was afraid our anger would boil over and we'd give away a stupid goal early in the second half or get at least one player sent off.

I guess some people will blame Lindelof for the Spurs goal but I think Pogba, Rashord and AWB all went AWOL before the ball got near Victor, who had another really good game. He and Maguire kept Son quiet for almost the entire game and Kane barely got a look in.

After a slow start, I also thought Fred got a better and that McTominay was immense in breaking things up, especially after we went
2-1 ahead. Pogba finally dominated a game pretty much from start to finish (why can't he do it against "lesser" teams?) and, as I've said Cavani showed our other forwards what a proper CF does.

On top of that, there's no argument for me about who the better goalkeeper is: Henderson was dominant, strong and loud! The defence seems much more comfortable with him there and he got Maguire out of trouble two or three times with his sweeping up.

On a side note, Keano was really funny after the game and (lots of people will disagree) I thought Jose deserved credit for his comments after the game, although I think this result will confirm his sacking at the end of the season.

 

[Wedge]

When spurs fans got excited thinking son kane bale was going rip up the prem . Ah good times.

 

[RoyH1]

I'm very pleased with how the team played, specially in the second half. Ole is cementing his place at the front of the club. Now we only need to be consistently good to be able to challenge for the PL title.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

I don’t understand how we can go from so utterly hopeless to brilliant between halves. I wonder what’s in the half time tea.

Big shout out to AWB today – I thought he was a one man right wing and it makes us so much more irrepressible when we can attack down both sides.

For the first time in ages, we won a big game and it feels like the right flank was more instrumental than the left.

Yeah, good point. We’ve been left side dominant to the extent we we’re getting too predictable. Not all AWB’s fault, as our attackers down the right have often been poor. Great to see us looking so much more balanced than usual against Spurs. Makes a big difference.

 

[Isotope]

How so? Tofu soup and Korean BBQ is delicious. Some people are so ignorant!!!

No new york steak for you.

And yes. Tofu soup and Korean BBQ are fecking delicious.

 

[Isotope]

I don’t understand how we can go from so utterly hopeless to brilliant between halves. I wonder what’s in the half time tea.

Big shout out to AWB today – I thought he was a one man right wing and it makes us so much more irrepressible when we can attack down both sides.

For the first time in ages, we won a big game and it feels like the right flank was more instrumental than the left.

For once against big(-ish) team away, I felt that we dominated and 100% deserved the win.

 

[GueRed]

No tofu soup or Korean BBQ for you tonight Sonny

Bit racist there pal..

 

[GueRed]

Oh because he is Korean? So funny and not at all racist.

he's been racially abused on social media.

I'm not surprised its made it's way to other places on the internet like here tbh

 

[DomesticTadpole]

Just watched the highlights again. Feck me that was enjoyable

This team is going places again.

I think that disallowed goal lit a fire under the game. It added a bit of anger into the team. United responded correctly to it in the second half, they could easily have stooped to Spurs level, but instead rose above it.

 

[El Zoido]

Best thing about still working from home is I can get the highlights up again instead of doing work.

 

[MetoTTT]

Great result and 2nd half by the lads. The craziest thing is Spurs rested for one week, we've played un Thursday but we've dominated the 2nd half (even physically).
Happy we've won against this parody of cheating, time wasting divers.

 

[Berbasbullet]

Best thing about still working from home is I can get the highlights up again instead of doing work.

I just did that

 

[Tom Cato]

The fact that Ole is blurred and in some sort of frenzyhappyface state next to Jose makes me want to hang this on my wall.

 

[norm87cro]

Probably in the top 4 of games we had this season. Played some lovley stuff at times and I'm very happy for Cavani. That guy has some serious SAF mentality. Don't think he is here next season but he definetly deserved the shirt.The worst part about our "not to be" goal would probably be that nobody would flinch if the ref had stoped it that second. There would be no goal controversy, we would all laugh at Son for being a diving twat and Spurs would have never scored. Would we be so fired up though? We should be starting games like this.

 

[justsomebloke]

Great result and 2nd half by the lads. The craziest thing is Spurs rested for one week, we've played un Thursday but we've dominated the 2nd half (even physically).
Happy we've won against this parody of cheating, time wasting divers.

I guess Mourinho brought the same approach to conditioning and physical fitness that he reportedly had at United.

 

[Lentwood]

Yesterday showed why I keep banging on about the difference a proper #9 would make.

Martial, Rashford and even Greenwood are absolutely nowhere near Cavani in terms of movement and sharpness in the box but that is only the half of it

Look how many times Cavani laid the ball of first-time with a one-touch pass yesterday. This is why we were able to create little triangles and passing moves in the opposition half. Rashford can't play with his back to goal at all, Martial takes too many touches and wants to run the ball every time and Greenwood is still young, inexperienced and can take a bit of a battering from seasoned CBs.

You need to have that focal point. That doesn't mean a big man to hit with long passes, it means someone who occupies defenders, moves them around and acts as a 'wall' against which the midfield players can bounce the ball.

 

[Eddy_JukeZ]

My favorite win of the season.

I also think the 2nd half display shows that we really should be playing better football on a consistent basis.

We have a good team. Just need more consistency.

Love that Ole riled up Jose too

 

[Maticmaker]

What pleased me about the win (other than putting one over on Jose) was that despite our now familiar early 'no show', when we did get going, there were some good performances all over the park.

Up front, Cavani, all through the match, Greenwood later on; Mid-field Pogba and Fred in particular, and at the back all five all look solid when they had to be, with even Henderson making a 'carbon-copy' DeGea save with his legs

Just wish we could get at it from the first whistle, like we did against Leeds!

 

[PJS007]

so nice to see us playing a team that were not just happy to take a draw, it brings out the best in us.

 

[zizou81]

Im not defending son, but he did something that unfortunately every modern football player now does. Rashford does it too. Everyone does it! It is annoying as heck, but racial abuse is never acceptable.

He gave the refs an opportunity to make a call, unfortunately the refs didnt see right through it.

I blame the refs more than anyone.

 

[NinjaZombie]

How so? Tofu soup and Korean BBQ is delicious. Some people are so ignorant!!!

Let's face it, you wouldn't say that if you weren't talking about Son.