Tottenham 4-3 Manchester United: Spurs survive Fraser Forster howlers to reach Carabao Cup semi-finals | OneFootball

Spurs goalkeeper gifted Man United two goals but it did not prove costly in the end

Tottenham survived a huge late scare to beat Manchester United in a 4-3 thriller and reach the semi-finals of the Carabao Cup.

It should have been a routine night for Spurs, who held a three-goal lead with ten minutes of the second-half played. After Dominic Solanke had given the hosts a half-time advantage, Dejan Kulusevski doubled the lead inside a minute of the restart and Solanke then added his second of the night to put Spurs in complete control.

Or so it appeared. Fraser Forster’s terrible pass in his own box was cut out by Bruno Fernandes, who rolled it into the path of Joshua Zirkzee to leave the striker a tap-in.

That left United with 20 minutes to find an equaliser against a nervous Spurs defence and Amad went close to netting his second, his strike from 25 yards out strangely kicked away by Forster.

It remained right in the balance until the closing stages, when Heung-min Son scored straight from a corner to sum up a chaotic night in north London. Altay Bayindir insisted he had been fouled, but the officials did not come to his rescue as Spurs fans though they could finally relax.

There was still time for the home players to threaten another collapse. Jonny Evans flicked in a header in stoppage-time to leave Spurs with yet more work to do, but United ran out of time.