Tottenham humiliate Manchester United as Bruno Fernandes despatched off

That is the nadir of Erik ten Hag’s Manchester United tenure. A slipshod shambolic mess that Tottenham exploited gleefully, pinging the ball about and punching by their storied hosts as if in a men-v-kids knockabout.

The supervisor claims to have a plan and on this displaying it appears to be based mostly on waving the opponent by on a figurative crimson carpet as Spurs did so endlessly. In the direction of the top, at 2-0 down, a 10-man United rallied, as Casemiro raided and Alejandro Garnacho darted in: this merely confirmed what Ten Hag’s prices might need finished in the event that they weren’t a humiliation to their well-known shirt.

By then Brennan Johnson and Dejan Kulesevksi had scored and Bruno Fernandes had been crimson carded, so the captain will miss the subsequent three league video games. If the latter determination appeared harsh, additional insult and damage ensued as Lucas Bergvall’s first contact – a nook, from the left – was headed on on the close to publish by Pape Matar Sarr – his first contact, too – and the unmarked Dominic Solanke touched residence.

Ten Hag, drenched in pouring rain, had overseen a duck shoot and this, too, with Ange Postecoglu’s males lacking the injured Son Heung-min, and who might need given United a six or seven-nil trouncing.

United are subsequent at Porto on Thursday, within the Europa League, then journey to Aston Villa on Sunday on this competitors. After this utter farrago, the supervisor, desperately, must win once more – ideally in each of those – as it’s now this defeat and two attracts in his aspect’s previous three outings.

Because the jubilant travelling congregation sang “when the Spurs go marching in”, the beleaguered Dutchman ended his afternoon dicing with the territory marked “sacking”.

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