Match Report: Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 Manchester United

On Sunday afternoon, at 16:30 GMT, Spurs hosted Manchester United for the final game of match day 25 in the Premier League.

Before we go onto the game, it is important to mention the protests directed at Daniel Levy and the board. It is important for us to mention this when writing about what happens on the pitch. Huge respect to everybody who was a part of it.

Onto the game itself, Ange opted for a line of up; Vicario; Porro, Danso, Davies, Spence; Bergvall, Bentancur, Maddison; Kulusevski, Tel, Son.

How things went when Spurs hosted Manchester United on Sunday afternoon

Ten minutes in, Rasmus Hojlund got the better of Davies in the channel, before cutting inside and firing at Vicario. Spurs could not get the ball clear, before a curling effort from Alejandro Garnacho was again saved by Vicario, with the rebound of that effort from Diogo Dalot being cleared away by Davies.

However, despite this scare, Spurs soon had the lead. Just two minutes later, a deep cross was eventually worked to Bergvall, whose effort was saved by Onana, but there was Maddison, on the spot to smash home the rebound, for his ninth Premier League goal of the season. Similar to Dominic Solanke's goal against United in the Carabao Cup quarter-final.

Midway through the first half, Garnacho was played clean through on goal, but somehow absolutely blazed the ball over the bar after opening his body up. An absolutely huge let off for Spurs - that was a golden chance.

After 26 minutes, a superb ball from Maddison set Son away down the left, whom cut the ball back for Tel, whose low left footed effort was well kept out by Onana. Decent effort, especially as the ball was slightly behind him. That was that for the first half.

Seven minutes into the second half, superb work from Spence saw him easily get away down the left hand side. His cross took a deflection off Kulusevski, and subsequently hit Tel before he knew too much about it, going behind for a goal kick.

Just a couple of minutes later, a presentable opportunity fell to Garnacho, but his effort was kept out by Vicario. Spurs continued to live on the edge defensively. More luck than design that they hadn’t conceded to this point.

After 58 minutes, a fierce effort from Garnacho towards the near post was well kept out by Vicario. You could feel the goal coming, with United having a lot of the territory and Spurs struggling to get a foothold of the game.

On the hour mark, good footwork from Son in the box resulted in a deflected shot going wide of the post. It was encouraging, at least, to see him looking sharper than he had been for the first hour, where he looked very off the pace.

With 63 minutes gone, Maddison made way for Johnson, whom made his return after a month on the sidelines. At the same time, Sarr replaced Bergvall. You would assume the Maddison sub was to manage his minutes after injury, because he played really well - and had made a superb challenge to stop a counter just before.

There were around twenty minutes on the clock when a well timed through ball was played to Hojlund, but Danso showed excellent speed to get there first. Soon after, Zirkzee missed a header from close range when he really should have done better. Another let off.

After around 78 minutes, Bissouma and Gray replaced Bentancur and Danso. The latter seemed to be moving a bit gingerly, perhaps with that aforementioned work to deny Hojlund going through. Hopefully just precautionary, can't take another injury.

Shortly after, a high turnover from Spurs lead to Son cutting the ball back for Kulusevski, whose effot was kept out by Onana. United then countered, with Spence making a crucial block to deny Hojlund's effort.

With four minutes remaining, Odobert came on for his first appearance since late October, when he replaced Son - whom gave the armband to Vicario on his way off the pitch.

Spurs would see out three minutes of stoppage time to secure back-to-back Premier League wins for the first time since September. Ironically, those were also wins against Brentford and Manchester United.

First league win at home since early November against Aston Villa. It wasn't pretty, it probably wasn't even deserved. However, can worry about that later. Spurs just really needed to win today, and they did.