Welcome to live match commentary for the Manchester United vs Tottenham Match ! Boy its good to be back doing this after a long time .
THE CLASH :
This match has a lot of background story and effect on it than most people think.Leicester have won their match against Sunderland 2-0 so the pressure is on Tottenham to win to keep their title hopes going. Manchester United on the other hand have to win this in order to their top 4 hopes going thus the title of this post.
TEAM NEWS :
Manchester United : De Gea, Fosu-Mensah, Smalling, Blind, Rojo, Schneiderlin, Carrick, Mata, Lingard, Martial, Rashford.
Subs: Romero, Darmian, Valencia, Young, Fellaini, Herrera, Memphis.
Tottenham Hotspur : Lloris (c), Walker, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Rose, Dier, Dembele, Lamela, Eriksen, Alli, Kane.
Subs: Vorm, Son, Mason, Trippier, Chadli, Wimmer, Carroll.
Both teams have picked their starting eleven based on recent form and fitness. It's going to a battle of defences mostly as one can predict .
The match was actually scheduled to start at 4:00 BST but delayed by 30 mins . We will start our live coverage by then.Stay tuned ...
Welcome back to our live coverage of the match ! The players are walking out and the match is about to be underway !
Just a remainder that Tottenham need to win this to close the gap to 7 points in top of the table with 5 games in hand.
SCORE :TOTTENHAM 3 - 0 UNITED
KICK OFF ! THE GAME BEGINS
2 MINS : The possession has been dominated by Tottenham and their attacking intent is shown early as they try to attack as much as possible .
4 MINS : Manchester United win some free kicks in their half after finally getting some possession back.Lingard and Schneiderlien combine to set martial on a run but the shot gets blocked and rebounds for a goal kick.
7 MINS : Mata takes a free kick on the left side of the box . The ball is floated in to Martial at the far post who pulls it back in but spurs counter from it . Mata tracks back to defend well.
United make a change : Ashley Young ON , RASHFORD OFF
67 MINS : Fosu Mensah OFF DARMIAN ON
70 MINS : GOAL FOR TOTTENHAM !! Scored by ALLI !
72 MINS : Yellow Card for Rose .
73 MINS : Yellow Card for Darmien
74 MINS : GOAL FOR TOTTENHAM ! 2-0 ! Scored by Alderwield from a cross of Lamela !
75 MINS : GOAL FOR TOTTENHAM ! 3-0 ! Scored by Lamela finishing a cross of Danny Rose !
76 MINS : MATA OFF DEPAY ON
82 MINS : A fight between Depay and Walker .. Some push and pull leading to a yellow card for both ...
THE CLASH :
This match has a lot of background story and effect on it than most people think.Leicester have won their match against Sunderland 2-0 so the pressure is on Tottenham to win to keep their title hopes going. Manchester United on the other hand have to win this in order to their top 4 hopes going thus the title of this post.
TEAM NEWS :
Manchester United : De Gea, Fosu-Mensah, Smalling, Blind, Rojo, Schneiderlin, Carrick, Mata, Lingard, Martial, Rashford.
Subs: Romero, Darmian, Valencia, Young, Fellaini, Herrera, Memphis.
Tottenham Hotspur : Lloris (c), Walker, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Rose, Dier, Dembele, Lamela, Eriksen, Alli, Kane.
Subs: Vorm, Son, Mason, Trippier, Chadli, Wimmer, Carroll.
Both teams have picked their starting eleven based on recent form and fitness. It's going to a battle of defences mostly as one can predict .
The match was actually scheduled to start at 4:00 BST but delayed by 30 mins . We will start our live coverage by then.Stay tuned ...
Please refresh after every 3 minutes during the match so that you get the latest commentary !!!
Welcome back to our live coverage of the match ! The players are walking out and the match is about to be underway !
Just a remainder that Tottenham need to win this to close the gap to 7 points in top of the table with 5 games in hand.
SCORE :TOTTENHAM 3 - 0 UNITED
KICK OFF ! THE GAME BEGINS 2 MINS : The possession has been dominated by Tottenham and their attacking intent is shown early as they try to attack as much as possible .
4 MINS : Manchester United win some free kicks in their half after finally getting some possession back.Lingard and Schneiderlien combine to set martial on a run but the shot gets blocked and rebounds for a goal kick.
7 MINS : Mata takes a free kick on the left side of the box . The ball is floated in to Martial at the far post who pulls it back in but spurs counter from it . Mata tracks back to defend well.
10 MINS : United get some passes together to get Fosu Mensah on a run but the shot gets blocked for a corner.
13 MINS : The United players are pressing well and maintaining width in their play and not giving tottenham possession of the ball.They look the more dangerous team in the pitch
15 MINS : United now attacking with the possession . Tottenham look sluggish and foul trying to get the ball back.
16 MINS : Tottenham win a corner and Eriksen rolls it to Danny Rose on the edge of the six yard box which gets to Harry kane whose shot gets saved by De Gea but it would have not counted any way as Kane was offside.
18 MINS : Tottenham have some possession but let off the steam due to a poor shot at the wrong time.Shame the attack ended that way .
22 MINS : United get the ball back thanks to some wonderful interceptions by Schneiderlien and now they attack and win some corners but that does not lead to anything .
Some stats - United have won 4 out of their last 5 league games 1-0
26 MINS : Tottenham regain the ball and Danny Rose does a wonderful switch to Walker on the right who passes it to eriksen who takes a shot from out of the box but it does not curve back in .
27 MINS : Lamela forces a cross in and the de gea punch goes straight to kane but Fosu mensah dives in and gets the ball.The next cross and sends lamela 1 v 1 on the far post but he misses it !
29 MINS : Kyle Walker tears Rojo apart on the right side and sends in a cross to kane who was waiting to tap it home but Fosu Mensah saves the day again with a wonderful interception.
Tottenham have finally got into their stride and are slowly starting to dominate the match.
33 MINS : Tottenham keep up the tempo and press harder to regain the ball when they lose it. Fosu Mensah again prevents a cross.He's been superb so far .
STAT - Tottenham have won just 3 of their 23 matches at home against United.
37 MINS : Lamela provides a long ball to Rose who chases it down before drifting in a cross but blind does his job and defends it.
40 MINS : Martial gets to a promising position by intercepting a ball played back to the keeper but gets flagged for offside but turns out the ball came back of walker so martial should not be flagged for offside there.Wrong call by the linesman.
Mata has had to a lot of defending to keep track of the Danny Rose Threat and has done well so far.But it seems better if Lingard does that while mata focuses on getting the ball forward...Will need to see if Van Gaal changes those two up in half time.
44 MINS : Smalling fouls kane in the right of the box . Eriksen floats a good ball in but it just evades Alli inside the box but it is seen that martial did take a small touch while trying to defend it but the referee does not spot it and gives a goal kick.
HALF TIME - Score 0-0
Tottenham have had that one clear chance which lamela missed a easy header.United are yet to have such a clear cut chance.Been a average half and needs to improve if some one wants it to win . Stay tuned for the second half .
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Second half begins...
United make a change : Ashley Young ON , RASHFORD OFF
46 MINS : Young is starting to play in the middle of the park . Looks like a direct switch for Rashford. Really surprised by this move by Van Gaal.
49 MINS : Spurs trying again to get Danny Rose through but and almost do it but Smalling gets across and clears. Mata is not going to win a race again Rose so that needs to be sorted !
51 MINS : Eriksen cuts back a ball from the left but it gets blocked and he goes direct from the rebound but that gets parried by De Gea .
United need to start attacking from the right hand side and get Mata involved... They are being too predictable trying to get Martial on the ball too often.. Mata has been doing a lot of defending but no attacking play.
54 MINS : Harry kane gets the ball outside the box and protects it well before unleashing a turning shot trying to bend it into the far post but it goes straight into De Gea.
57 MINS : Midfield battles going on with both teams losing and gaining the ball back and forth but not anything game changing happening
59 MINS : Lingard trying the same thing kane tried but from inside the box but failing to hit the target by miles. Poor effort by the young lad.
60 MINS : Martial skips past 2 Tottenham players into the box from the left and shoots it but it goes straight at Lloris who parries it into Martial again who cant target the header into the goal as he was running into the ball quick. Should have scored there from the first hit after doing so well to create the chance.
62 MINS : Play held up for a few minutes as Manchester United's Fosu Mensah is down injured . He seems to be back ok after a while and some treatment.
65 MINS : A powerful cross from Danny Rose takes a small deflection but De Gea saves it with his feet.
67 MINS : Fosu Mensah OFF DARMIAN ON 70 MINS : GOAL FOR TOTTENHAM !! Scored by ALLI !72 MINS : Yellow Card for Rose .73 MINS : Yellow Card for Darmien74 MINS : GOAL FOR TOTTENHAM ! 2-0 ! Scored by Alderwield from a cross of Lamela ! 75 MINS : GOAL FOR TOTTENHAM ! 3-0 ! Scored by Lamela finishing a cross of Danny Rose ! 76 MINS : MATA OFF DEPAY ON
78 MINS : Almost a fourth for tottenham.. Harry Kane almost heads home a freekick from lamela but De Gea tips it over the bar.The resulting corner also gets headed from kane but De Gea again with a fine save !
81 MINS : Lamela goes on a fine run by a good dribble but does not score . Unlucky ...
82 MINS : A fight between Depay and Walker .. Some push and pull leading to a yellow card for both ...
Rojo's terrible form continues .. He is the man who was marking alderwield for the second goal but he lets him get a easy header off .... Very poor for a Manchester United player ..
86 MINS : LAMELA OFF CHALDI ON
88 MINS : KANE OFF SON ON
Tottenham have absolutely destroyed the United Defence who completely switched off after the first goal went in.Very poor from United !
4 MINS ADDED ON !
90+2 MINS : Alli gets booked for diving .. It was a promising position so no need for that...
90+3 MINS : ALLI OFF MASON ON
FINAL WHISTLE BLOWS ! Score 3-0 ! United utterly embarrassed by Tottenham who now keep the pressure on Leicester and also their own title hopes alive..United on the other hand have suffered a huge blow to their top 4 race...
Tune in later for our match review ... Thats it for now guys ! Good bye and take care :)
86 MINS : LAMELA OFF CHALDI ON 88 MINS : KANE OFF SON ON
4 MINS ADDED ON !
90+2 MINS : Alli gets booked for diving .. It was a promising position so no need for that... 90+3 MINS : ALLI OFF MASON ON FINAL WHISTLE BLOWS ! Score 3-0 ! United utterly embarrassed by Tottenham who now keep the pressure on Leicester and also their own title hopes alive..United on the other hand have suffered a huge blow to their top 4 race...
Tune in later for our match review ... Thats it for now guys ! Good bye and take care :)