Manchester United extended their unbeaten streak to five matches following this afternoon’s 2-2 draw with Tottenham Hotspur in North London.
While Ruben Amorim will undoubtedly be breathing a sigh of relief that his men claimed something from the clash after trailing in injury time, he does have two new injury blows to navigate.
Harry Maguire suffers hamstring injury vs Spurs
Indeed, Harry Maguire was withdrawn for Leny Yoro in the 72nd minute, with TNT Sports commentator Darren Fletcher suggesting the centre-half had injured his hamstring.
Maguire was given the nod for the outing, having not featured since United’s emphatic win at Anfield, which he directly contributed to by scoring the winning goal.
He sustained a knock during the victory and missed the subsequent match against Brighton and Hove Albion. The 32-year-old returned to the matchday squad for last week’s draw at Nottingham Forest, but was an unused substitute.
Benjamin Sesko squanders superb chance before being forced off
In the final 10 minutes of today’s contest, Benjamin Sesko was through on goal with a golden opportunity to net his third Premier League goal.
That was until Micky van de Ven intervened with a last-ditch, exquisitely-timed tackle to nick the ball from Sesko’s feet and allow Guglielmo Vicario to collect it and restart play.
The Slovenian had only been on the pitch since the 59th minute after he was called upon to replace Noussair Mazraoui in an attacking change from Amorim.
Sesko evidently hurt himself in the process of the chance, as he stayed on the floor and was later forced off. Amorim had already used up all of his substitutes, leaving the travelling Reds with 10 men.
“This is not good at all for Manchester United,” said BBC Sport’s live commentary journalist.
“Benjamin Sesko is injured and is going to have to come off…and the visitors are going to finish with 10 men because they have used all their substitutes.”
All good to stay unbeaten, but points wise, a loss at forest and a win today would have gained more points 🤔🤔
The premier league is tough…United getting points from places they normally loose is very positive…well done United!!!!
The problem is simple and I don’t understand why it keeps happening for some reason the manager keeps making rediculus substitutions I can understand taking off a Injured player or someone who is struggling but to keep making three or four subs in one go when we are on top and by doing so weakening the team and letting the opposition back in and in most cases the result turns into a draw or even a loss the only reason I can think of is he’s trying to keep the fringe players happy instead of thinking about the game being played and the result
They got rid of a keeper who kept making mistakes and losing points… get rid of RA he is a terrible game manager!
The manager got it wrong he made to many changes
The United manager made terrible substitutition and killed the Man United team spirit and Spurs got back into the game,Ugarte was terrible he could not stop Tel which led to the goal,United need more player like Mbeuma very hard working
Sesko is a sham or he doesn’t understand his duty as a striker. Open chances, no score?
Amorin has no proper game management skills making 3 substitutes at once 15 minutes or so before the end disrupting the flow and when we try to see out the game instead of going for a second goal has often been our undoing