Mail Sport's match report from today's game is below.
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Recap Mail Sport's live blog as hosted at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in first home match without .
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Spurs win! Michael Oliver blows the final whistle and Ange Postecoglou's first home match ends in a win.
Harry who?
Match report dropping shortly...
90+6: Bruno Fernandes bends a free-kick from 20 yards over and that will be that.
He's not happy and exchanges angry words with Cristian Romero!
90+1: Spurs just passing it around with no urgency, now. United not defending with any urgency so why complicate things?
This game is done and dusted, kippers and custard. Ten Hag looks stony-faced.
It's been pretty poor all round today.
86: A double change for United, the final two players Ten Hag can bring on.
Facundo Pellistri and Anthony Martial replace Mason Mount and Marcus Rashford. United have fallen to pieces here, really.
For Spurs, Manor Solomon and Emerson Royal replace Dejan Kulusevski and Pedro Porro.
83: OUT OF NOTHING! Ben Davies makes it 2-0, and that's the ball game! Much deserved too!
More lovely passing from Maddison and Bissouma sees it worked out to Ivan Perisic on the left. He rolls a low, daisy-cutter sort of cross along the penalty area. Ben Davies gets a nick on it, I think, but Lisandro Martinez makes sure.
The Argentine swings his weaker right foot at it and only ensures it dribbles beyond Andre Onana. Game over.
80: Lovely move from Spurs. Several cute passing triangles sees them move it from left to right, nervelessly and safely, before Davies' through ball to Kulusevski runs out of play.
That's exactly the composure they will need to eat up the remaining minutes.
76: Off goes Pape Matar Sarr - the potential match-winner - for a well deserved rest. He gets a standing ovation for his troubles.
On comes the defensively solid Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg. Contender along with Fernandes in the Whiny Olympics, I reckon, alongside my mate Charlie from five-a-side.
72: ANOTHER close call playing out from the back. That time it's sub Christian Eriksen, receiving it under pressure from Onana.
He slips and it looks like Maddison will have a one-on-one... but Varane is back there to sweep behind for a corner. United need to find something different here.
70: Double change from Spurs - Ben Davies replaces Destiny Udogie at left back in a straight swap, while Ivan Perisic comes on for Richarlison. That will see Son move up top and Perisic on the left wing.
Shrewd changes from Ange - more experience on the pitch to see out the game while it's still tight.
20 minutes left to hold on...
66: The largely ineffective Garnacho and Antony are off, Sancho and Eriksen on, while Dalot replaces Wan-Bissaka at right-back.
That switch sees Bruno Fernandes move high onto the right hand side.
At the moment Spurs look the likelier to score - Ten Hag will want that to change, and fast.
By the way, Udogie has received a yellow for time-wasting.
59: Just before the hour mark, and Spurs nearly make it two. A pair of lovely flicks from the confident Yves Bissouma sees Son burst into the box from the left hand side, fake shot, fake shot again...
But Luke Shaw makes a last-ditch block behind from the shot! That looked like it was goalbound.
Erik ten Hag looks like he's chewing a wasp. A potential TRIPLE change in the offing...
55: First Vicario tips over Casemiro's close-range header from Fernandes' free-kick, then Fernandes goes through one-on-one and it's another strong stop - but that one was offside.
52: It's all happening now!
Spurs want two penalties in the space of about 20 seconds. First Lisandro Martinez barges into Cristian Romero, and then Antony slide tackles James Maddison.
The second - nothing in it. The first? Martinez is clumsy and couldn't have complained if it were given...
50: This is incredible. United go up the other end, Fernandes finds Antony, who bends it across Vicario and off the post! The Italian was beaten!
Then Spurs race forward, roared on by the Spurs faithful, Udogie underlaps from Son and his low shot is saved by Onana.
49: PAPE MATAR SARR SCORES! THE DEADLOCK IS BROKEN!
It's the 20-year-old's first ever goal for Tottenham! Porro feeds in Kulusevski down the right, Shaw is tucked well inside for some reason so Garnacho has to close him down.
He does so a bit half-heartedly, Kulu gets to the byline, his low cross hits Lisandro Martinez and bobbles to the far post, where Sarr powers the loose ball into the roof of the net.
Lift-off!
48: Lovely jinking dribble from Destiny Udogie - what a name, by the way - creates an overload on the Spurs left and James Maddison can play in Son Heung-min but Wan-Bissaka cuts out the pass.
But wait...
46: We're back underway in North London.
By the way, Tottenham expected goals tally from the first half is 0.53, while United's is 1.26.
That means they should be ahead, really, based on the quality of their chances.
Both sides crying out for a No 9. Hojlund is working himself back to fitness for United - will Spurs strengthen in that department before the end of the summer transfer window?
45: That's the break! Can either side find a winner in the second half?
40: Confirmation of not one but two yellow cards for Man United, which will please the home crowd. Antony slid in on Yves Bissouma and didn't get the ball, correct decision.
Then captain Bruno Fernandes whines about it too much for Michael Oliver's liking and HE gets a booking as well.
Bruno Fernandes FPL owners like myself fuming. Could have scored a penalty earlier, misses a sitter and then gets a yellow card for nothing! Urghhhhh.
39: What's happened THERE?! Spurs hit the woodwork twice in 30 seconds.
Pedro Porro smashes a fine effort against the bar, then Pape Matar Sarr's cross deflects off Luke Shaw and hits the post!
How is this still 0-0?!
36: HOW in the HECK has he missed that? Antony works it out to Garnacho on the left with a nice pass, it's laid back to Luke Shaw, who bends a cross in, and suddenly Bruno Fernandes is free in the six-yard box.
He somehow plants his header high and horribly wide. He looks hopefully towards the linesman to see if there will be an offside flag but no, he timed his run perfectly.
My Fantasy Premier League team in the mud.
A close and combative match-up so far. Not as many chances as neutrals would like, perhaps, but fascinatingly poised.
Meanwhile, Aaron Wan-Bissaka gets a yellow card for blocking a quick free-kick.
30: Good stop! Spurs slice United open through the middle, Son plays it through beautifully to the onrushing Pape Sarr, who shoots left-footed from a tight angle, but Onana blocks it and gathers the rebound.
Encouraging signs for Ange and Co...
28: It's NO penalty! Probably the right decision for me. A ripple of approval sounds around the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Ten Hag will probably conjure up some faux-outrage in the press conference later if they lose. As if United didn't get massively lucky with that late non-penalty against Wolves! Anyway.
28: Romero blocks a Garnacho shot and the three United attackers go up as one to ask for handball.
VAR is checking it...
Replays show his right arm is up but is fairly close to his body. Would be harsh I think.
24: Fernandes is becoming more influential. He works it out to Garnacho, gets it back and then whizzes a through ball over the top for Rashford, but the forward is offside and the header is over anyway.
Then the Portuguese star works room to shoot... but his shot is blocked.
Spurs break quickly and Kulusevski bends it towards goal but Onana smothers the ball before Richarlison can snaffle up the rebound.
21: What a pass! Andre Onana was brought in and David de Gea discarded because of their ability (or apparent lack thereof) with the ball at their feet.
Onana has already pinged a couple of wondrous passes today and he makes the best of the lot, coming almost up to the halfway line to thrash a perfectly weighted long switch of play to Garnacho on the left.
Keep an eye on that - he might get an assist or two this season!
18: Game is getting a bit scrappy now. Maddison is furious after Michael Oliver (correctly, in my book) doesn't give him a foul after Garnacho slightly tugs him back.
Then Spurs fans roar with frustration as United get a soft-ish free kick. Bruno catches Van de Ven far too high, but the Dutchman recovers to block Rashford's effort.
13: A Fernandes worldie of a pass sets Rashford free down the Spurs left. He feeds Wan-Bissaka, whose cross is well directed, but Garnacho's first touch is OK rather than excellent and Spurs can recover to clear.
At the other end, Sarr balloons a header from a corner wide. But Kulusevski gets behind Shaw again and there's another corner...
10: After Tottenham's bright start, they've taken their foot off the pedal a little. United seem livelier, have a bit more tempo to their play, and are dominating possession.
Van de Ven can't field a Romero pass and it goes straight out of play. Shaky...
OH, it's the first real save of the day! Rashford RACES onto a through ball with searing pace and tries to poke it in from a tight angle - but Vicario gets a strong hand to it.
7: Van de Ven loses the ball trying a crazy dribble on the left hand side, Antony works it out to the left and Porro blocks the overlapping Shaw's cross.
Two corners in a row - but they come to nothing.
Bruno Fernandes is back on, by the way, after a 30-second delay.
5: Bruno Fernandes is down on the turf, writhing around in agony. Not for the first time. But this time he looks to be in genuine pain after a firm but fair 50-50 tackle with Pedro Porro.
He wasn't fully committed to it, whereas Porro was, and those are the challenges when you get injured.
2: Careful there! Pedro Porro - playing in that inverted full-back role that seems to be very much in vogue at the moment - loses the ball and Antony has a chance to shoot... but blazes over from the edge of the box.
Gary Neville says: if full-backs could receive the ball on the half-turn like that, they'd be central midfielders.
A close shave!
1: A good start for Spurs!
They are pressed high and hard by United but play their way out of trouble neatly and three quick passes sees them go 80 yards up the pitch in double-quick time.
It's crossed to Son at the back post, but he scuffs his attempted volley.
A huge roar for Ange Postecoglou as he walks out in North London for the first time!
50 Premier League appearances for Dejan Kulusevski, plus four home debuts for the hosts - Vicario, Van de Ven, Udogie and of course James Maddison.
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Max Mathews
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