A warm sun over White Hart Lane, only a few wisps of white in the vast blue sky. Perhaps after all the clouds and confusion of the close-season, a glorious summer really is breaking for Tottenham. Or perhaps Manchester United are just unexpectedly terrible. They got away with it at Wolves; they did not get away with it here.
The only positive for Erik ten Hag is that United at least have three more points after two games than they did last season, but the performances have been just as ragged. They may feel there were a little unfortunate to lose here but they had been lucky on Monday, and for all that this was a patchy if exciting game of frequent errors and occasional glimmers of real quality, there was too little coherence in their play for them to claim with any conviction that they had been robbed.
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