Tottenham Hotspur suffered their first defeat under Jose Mourinho’s management last night as we went down 2-1 to Manchester United.
We were outplayed on much of Mourinho’s return to Old Trafford, with Marcus Rashford’s double cancelling out Dele Alli’s sublime equaliser.
While Rashford was the architecht of United’s victory, the match was lost in midfield where Mourinho, having experimented with several options already, restored the Harry Winks and Moussa Sissoko double pivot, the birth of which coincided with Mauricio Pochettino’s downfall.
Each of them have some likeable individual qualities, but they simply do not work as a partnership, giving us no method of passing the ball through midfield. A front four that had been so potent in Mourinho’s previous matches barely got on the ball; Harry Kane in particular was anonymous.
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Both Winks and Sissoko’s best asset is arguably their energy and yet they were even outdone in this regard by United’s Scott McTominay and Fred.
The results have proven that this pairing is flawed and these frustrated Spurs fans on Twitter have begged Mourinho to shelve it for good.