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News24 – Ole Gunnar Solskjaer puts Jose Mourinho to shame – Man Utd should appoint him now!
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 Oh, and he’s just beaten his closest rival in a direct contest. Why not make Ole Gunnar Solskjaer Manchester United manager now? Because if this really was the job interview that was being billed, there is no doubt he’s hired. Even Lord Sugar, a full-blooded Tottenham fan, thinks United are looking “dangerous” again in Solskjaer’s more than capable hands. Although, if it is capable hands you were after at Wembley, look no further than Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea, who in all honesty had far more sway on the final result than any masterstrokes pulled by either manager. It is another defeat against a Big Six side at Wembley for Mauricio Pochettino – the fifth now in nine games in the club’s temporary home. But the match itself was a showcase for the near irrepressible attacking force he has evolved on limited budget to play the sort of football to put overly-cautious former United boss Jose Mourinho to shame. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had got his tactics right in the first half, playing Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford wide to peg back Tottenham’s flying full-backs as much as possible and relying on hitting the home side on the break. But the second half in particular they were given not just the third, but the fourth, fifth and sixth degrees – that was how many different angles that Christian Eriksen, Dele Alli, Heung-Min Son and Harry Winks seemed to find. It may not have been through choice, but United had as many players parked behind the ball as Jose Mourinho ever achieved by design, although ultimately it was only one of those players who was to prove Tottenham’s downfall. The game had swung just before half-time during the brief organisational mayhem caused when Moussa Sissoko limped off with a groin problem. A superb diagonal pass from Paul Pogba after Kieran Trippier carelessly gave away possession enabled Rashford to leave Jan Vertonghen in his wake and drive the ball via Hugo Lloris’s fingertips into the far corner of the net. If only finishing was as easy as the young United striker made it look. Tottenham began their onslaught in earnest three minutes after the break. Alli’s neat ball into Harry Kane put him in roughly the same spot as his England colleague but his usually unerring shot was deflected away by De Gea’s foot. The United goalkeeper was at full stretch two minutes later to block Alli’s downward header from Trippier’s cross, then he was in the perfect place to block a diving header from Kane when Eriksen swung in a cross after a short corner in the 62nd minute. Alli’s one-on-one attempt came just four minutes later, sent haring in on goal from the half-way line by Kane’s perceptive pass. Alli waited for De Gea to commit. De Gea waited. Alli waited some more. Still set when Alli finally unleashed his shot, De Gea simply deflected away a shot which was effectively hit straight at him. The block from Toby Alderweireld was more instinctive, the Spurs defender denied when his neat flick from a near-post Eriksen corner

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