Manchester United v Tottenham Hotspur: Premier League – as it happened

Yes, United were worthy of that. They still look a bit tentative and perhaps they sat in too deep, too early – but they attacked with genuine invention at times and somewhere there is, maybe, an emerging picture of how Mourinho wants this side to operate. It worked today and the hope will now be that Mkhitaryan, whose winner was excellent, is not injured for too long. He adds so much to their fluidity.

Tottenham, though, were powder puff. Harry Kane barely got a kick; they had plenty of the ball but you never sensed a goal was on the way and that will trouble Pochettino. United saw things out comfortably and there is definitely a sense they should have been tested more.

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90+6 min: Then Rose gets a chance to drive into the box again, passes up on a half-chance to shoot, and is snuffed out by Jones. Fellaini comes on for Herrera – a few more boos for him even at this vital stage, which is pathetic – and United will surely see this out.

90+5 min: Rose, roundly booed after the Mkhitaryan tackle, wins a corner. He takes it himself but it’s really poor and United survive.

90+3 min: “Can Manchester United concede? They always concede,” chuckles Vibhanshu Bisht.

Little danger of that currently.

90+2 min: “Just got online to see United perfectly poised to throw away a 1-0 lead in the last thirty seconds and have to settle for the umpteenth 1-1 draw in a row. Dare I nip off for two minutes to boil the kettle….,” asks Rick Harris.

Go on, make it interesting for us...

90+1 min: Six minutes to be added on, which makes everyone nice and jittery...

89 min: Not with crosses like that. Walker finds Row Z. Time running out for another late equaliser against United.

88 min: Can Tottenham put something together late on? Those Eriksen free-kicks, a Son effort from range and that skewed Wanyama header apart, there’s not been a lot from them despite their possession.

86 min: Alli is late on Carrick, who to be fair had been sold well short by Bailly, and is given a scolding. He was entitled to go for that though.

85 min: Off he goes, on that stretcher. Left ankle I think, and hopefully it’s not serious as he’s been great and his United career looks to have really got off and running. He’s warmly applauded down the tunnel and Eric Bailly comes on to replace him. Might be all hands to the pump for the final 10 minutes or so.

83 min: Tottenham, who despite their periods of pressure haven’t really looked like scoring, replace Eriksen with Nkoudou. Mkhitaryan’s departure is still being sorted out.

82 min: Then Mkhitaryan, my man of the match, has a real go at Danny Rose and the result is another booking for a Tottenham full-back. That was a real turn of pace. He’s getting some treatment as a result of the foul, and unfortunately it looks as if he’s going to have to leave us on a stretcher. He tried to hobble off but went down again – could be a twisted ankle.

80 min: Meantime, Mkhitaryan takes a corner for United but it’s cleared and then Herrera punts the ball out of play. They’ve played a bit more in the Tottenham half in recent minutes.

79 min: Marouane Fellaini comes out to warm up and is booed, which I don’t think is great form but such are the times we exist in.

78 min: Walker tugs Rashford, who has started usefully, and earns a yellow card. Exactly what Mourinho will want his sub to do – give Walker problems at that end.

77 min: Mkhitaryan is booked for a tackle, I think on Winks. Looks as if we’re in for a tense last 10 or so.

75 min: Mkhitaryan kills a high ball wonderfully and almost manages to take things a step further, battling Alderweireld for a sight of goal. The defender wins out this time. Then we see the novel sight of Darmian – just about – outdoing Sissoko.

72 min: A United change – Rashford for Martial. Probably need the fresh legs for their left side/Tottenham’s right. That’s where the bother is.

71 min: Well taken by Eriksen, who goes low and across De Gea again but the goalkeeper’s footwork is good and he is able to get down to it with a firm hand away.

70 min: A Valencia slip almost lets Alli in but United get men back just in time. Then Sissoko feeds Kane, who tries to roll Rojo but is clipped two yards from the edge of the area. Eriksen territory, this...

68 min: Now Walker wins a corner from Pogba. It’s all coming down that side. Spurs make a chance before it’s taken, the disappointing Dembele replaced by Harry Winks. Eriksen’s near-post delivery seems to come off Carrick but a goal-kick is wrongly given.

66 min: Sissoko is absolutely murdering Darmian – that’s four times on the right already, without quite finding the right cross. United need to address this.

65 min: Another chance for Pogba! He slips Mkhitaryan in, clear-ish on the right, and the Armenian can possibly shoot for goal but instead lays one back to his onrushing team-mate, whose bouncing half-volley is parried really well by Lloris! When they go forward, they look really sharp.

63 min: Chance indeed! Pogba takes aim and what a fine strike it is – whip, bend, pace ... but it smacks the right post and bounces away!

62 min: Dembele hauls Pogba over 25 yards out. Pogba was looking for it, and rightly got it. Chance here...

60 min: Sissoko is providing that directness though and bustles past Darmian, crossing for Alli on the edge of the area. But Alli gets his feet wrong and miscues.

59 min: Mkhitaryan fails to find Ibrahimovic with a cross-shot from the right after another nice little dart. United could do with imposing themselves a little more. Spurs don’t appear to hold a huge amount of direct threat but they are being given chances to probe.

58 min: It comes to nothing. Jones heads away and Wanyama does something to earn a yellow card. A flailing arm I think. United need the breather though, at this stage.

57 min: And here, in fact, is Sissoko in Son’s place. This is the sort of occasion that might interest him, and immediately he wins a corner.

55 min: Ohhh, they should have equalised! A left-wing free-kick from Eriksen sees Wanyama get free round the back for a second time. It’s a clear header on goal, this one, and all he needs to do is nod to one side of De Gea. But he times it all wrong, perhaps torn between a goal attempt and a header across the six-yard box, and manages to do neither successfully.

54 min: Spurs really do miss the drive of Erik Lamela, on and off the ball. Only real option on the bench to provide something similar is the Naughty Step’s Moussa Sissoko. But they are pressing and Eriksen is teed up by Alli 20 yards out, sets himself and sees his effort – straight at De Gea, really – beaten away.

51 min: Spurs work the ball around the outside of the United box but they just haven’t got that spark today so far. The move ends when Son undercooks a little ball through to the overlapping Rose.

49 min: Mkhitaryan slips Ibrahimovic in – Pogba was also an option had he looked up sooner – but Rose is across to nip it away. Expect United to keep posing a threat with these sharp breaks.

47 min: Good surging run by Dembele and although it comes to nothing Spurs might be encouraged by that – saw nothing like that from him before the break. Remember how he bossed Arsenal a few weeks back?

Thomas Bishop is back, vis a vis his earlier Wanyama point:

“Shall I just say ‘told you so’? When Herrera got the ball, Wanyama planted his feet, having pushed close to the centre circle, leaving a huge gap between Alderweireld and Vertonghen. Then again, no guarantee Dier would’ve done better - he might’ve just thrown a haymaker at Herrera.”

To be fair, I think Wanyama did a really good job on Pogba for 90% of that half.

Do people still think that?

Apart from that, all good.

45 min: Martial scoops way over after another tasty Valencia ball reaches him via Alderweireld’s head.

43 min: Spurs corner, after Alli gallops to the line and does well. Again it’s from that right side. Rojo does very well to get in there ahead of Wanyama and concede another, although he was quite clearly grabbing the midfielder’s shirt and we’ve seen penalties given for far less this season, as Wanyama points out to Madeley. The next corner, taken short, ends with a United free-kick.

41 min: Kane goes limply wide from range. Notable there was that while Tottenham had three players forward there were seven back from United.

38 min: Another dangerous Tottenham free-kick, Herrera needlessly fouling Eriksen out on the right and getting a stern warning. The home fans aren’t happy; a replay shows it was debatable. Alli and Darmian then get a telling-off of their own before the ball finally comes in, Alderweireld eventually seeing a low cross repelled by Carrick after the initial set-piece was cleared.

36 min: Spurs’ best effort so far with Son, this time on his left foot, drilling one from 25 yards and seeing De Gea tip over. Eriksen outswings the corner from the right but the ball loops off Wanyama and De Gea claims.