Premier League – 10th day: Manchester United dominates Tottenham (2-0) without Cristiano Ronaldo

Manchester United needed it. Logical winner of Tottenham (2-0), the Mancunian club took the opportunity to get closer to the Top 4 of the Premier League. The Red Devils are now just one point behind Chelsea and four behind their evening opponent (with one more game to play). Fred (1-0, 47th) and Bruno Fernandes (2-0, 69th) sealed this success after returning from the locker room when Hugo Lloris had worked wonders for 45 minutes and even more. After having already beaten Arsenal and Liverpool, Manchester United confirms its good disposition against the leaders of the championship.

From the outset, Manchester United took the lead in this meeting and never released the grip while Tottenham tried somehow to make inroads into the opposing half. Casemiro and Fred shone in front of the defense, well relayed by Bruno Fernandes and Antony. With this dominating midfielder facing Pierre-Émile Höjbjerg, Yves Bissouma and Rodrigo Bentancur, Eric Ten Hag’s players had total control of the game. Only Harry Kane was able to put David De Gea to work (45th, 68th ) by framing two of Tottenham’s eight shots when Manchester tried their luck twenty-eight times.

Lloris, a cold sweat and a recital

The only man up to the event on the side of Spurs, Hugo Lloris will have postponed the deadline as much as possible. However, the Frenchman’s evening could have started in the worst possible way. Came out far from his goal on a deep ball that Doherty repelled, he hardly diverted the long shot from Antony (7th). It was on the following action that he began his recital by slamming Fred’s attempt for a corner (7th). Marcus Rashford (21st, 49th, 74th), Bruno Fernandes (23rd) and Luke Shaw (24th) in turn saw the Frenchman come out with classy saves to keep Tottenham in the game.

When he was beaten, it was his post that saved him against Antony (10th) then Casemiro’s tense shot grazed his post (29th). By dint of pushing, Manchester was logically rewarded. And it was finally on a harmless shot from Fred just after the break that Lloris had to bow. The Brazilian sent a full-axis left shot that Davies deflected, taking his goalkeeper on the wrong foot (1-0, 47th). Very often in good shots, Fred was at the origin of the second goal by wanting to strike from the surface. Dier pushed back on Fernandes who took over without control with a curled shot from the unstoppable right (2-0, 69th).