Our 3️⃣ points as Man Utd and Spurs share spoils | OneFootball

Tottenham came from behind twice at Old Trafford to claim a point in the road on Sunday evening against Manchester United.

This is what we made of it.

Frustration for both

Unsurprisingly given the scoreline, both sides will likely leave this one feeling frustrated that one point wasn’t turned into three.

For Spurs, they will arguably be the more disappointed of the two – even if they did have to do things the hard way.

They may have trailed twice but they always looked like the side who were more in control of their game plan and seemed much more confident than United in what they were attempting to execute.

The Tottenham faithful will be oh so glad to see Micky van de Ven back at the heart of defence alongside Cristian Romero, while Radu Drǎgușin also enjoyed a late cameo and fellow new arrival Timo Werner is already up and running with an assist for the excellent Rodrigo Bentancur and his second half leveller.

United, who also welcomed an important centre-back of their own back with Lisandro Martínez’s return off the bench, will know that this was one that got away as they were forced to settle for only their second draw of the season, having led twice but failed to kill the contest.

Most frustratingly of all, they could and should have nicked it at the death too but Scott McTominay somehow headed over when picked out completely unmarked just five yards out.

Rashford’s long wait ends

The last time Marcus Rashford found the net at Old Trafford, five of the Spurs starting line-up and their manager were all plying their trade elsewhere.

It was a seven month, 15 game, 16 hour and 32 shot wait for the England international since he last scored at home during a victory over Chelsea last May.

Perhaps Rasmus Højlund’s own well-documented scoring drought diverted much of the attention away from Rashford’s own struggles on home turf.

But he took his goal extremely well and was much more threatening throughout this contest, giving Pedro Porro and Romero plenty to think about with his movement and pace.

The strike also sees him move onto 80 Premier League goals for the Red Devils, becoming just the eighth player in club history to hit that milestone.

Can’t stop Spurs

With Richarlison’s header, an interesting piece of Tottenham history was made – highlighting the impact of Angeball in north London.

Since drawing a blank against Wolves last March, they have now scored in their last 33 successive Premier League fixtures which is the longest such league run in club history, per Opta.

Those attacking instincts have served them well all season, most notably on their last visit to Manchester when they left the Etihad with three goals and a point to show for their efforts.

Their powers of recovery were on show that night and were at the forefront again in this one if ever you needed more evidence that this team are a different animal this season.

Although this was the 25th time from 32 games at Old Trafford that Spurs have fallen 1-0 behind (the most in competition history one team has conceded the opener to another away from home), things didn’t follow the usual script.

On the 24 previous occasions, they lost 22 times and not only did they come back from a goal down on this occasion, they did so from 2-1 down. Spursy no more.