Tottenham 2-1 Manchester United - Premier League as it happened
Spurs win their last ever game at White Hart Lane.
- Goals from Victor Wanyama and Harry Kane seal victory for Tottenham in their last ever match at White Hart Lane.
- Wayne Rooney pulled a goal back for United late on but were unable to prevent second consecutive defeat in north London.
- United remain seven points off the top four.
Brilliant from Harry Kane! Eriksen pings a corner kick in towards Kane who produces a brilliantly improvised finish, clipping the ball into the far corner with De Gea rooted to the spot. While it was a superb finish, it was dreadful defending from United's perspective; not a single player attacked the ball as it came in with Chris Smalling's marking on Kane all over the place.
Oh Phil. Jones is caught the wrong side of Kane and slips as he tries to keep up with the Spurs striker, who wins a corner. Carrick clears the initial corner but it comes back in quickly from Eriksen, who finds Kane unmarked in the box. Him and De Gea both go for the ball and the former gets there first, but nuts it over the bar.
Tottenham take the lead! Christian Eriksen feeds a short corner out to Ben Davies who swings in a peach of a cross. Wayne Rooney is marking Victor Wanyama, but the United captain lets his man slip away from him at the crucial moment, allowing the Spurs midfielder to loop a fine header over de Gea and into the back of the net.
Jose Mourinho makes eight changes in total this afternoon. David de Gea, Axel Tuanzebe, Chris Smalling, Phil Jones, Michael Carrick, Wayne Rooney, Juan Mata and Anthony Martial all coming in. After Thursday's win over Celta Vigo, Marcus Rashford, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Ander Herrera are among those to make way.
Team news: Tottenham
Spurs are also without the young trio of Kyle Walker-Peters, Josh Onomah and United States centre-back Cameron Carter-Vickers, who will miss the remaining three games as the youngsters having been called by their respective national teams for the Under-20 World Cup in South Korea.
15 players. That's what Jose Mourinho has at his disposal this afternoon. You would assume he would like to make wholesale changes, but a laundry list of injuries might now allow for it.
"I approach these games the same. I have to give some minutes to everyone because we only have 15 players. We don't have more. We only have 15 so I have to play them but I have to play them in a mixed way and by periods.
"I don't have another solution. In the Premier League, we can only finish fifth or sixth. I don't think we can finish seventh or we can finish fourth so it's fifth or sixth and we can win a trophy. By winning that trophy, we can play in the Champions League next season so that's the game but, obviously, like we did against Arsenal, we didn't throw the match away.
"We played and we tried to win. We gave a difficult match to our opponents and had chances to get a different result. It's what we are going to do. We are not going say matches are not important – they are important. But we have one that is more important than others. The match on Sunday is important for us too."
Team news: Manchester United
Axel Tuanzebe is expected to come back into the starting XI. The 19-year-old was United's man of the match against Arsenal, excelling at right-back despite usually plying his trade at centre-half. Juan Mata, who returned from injury in that defeat to the Gunners, is also in line to start.
Team news: Manchester United
While a top four finish is still technically possible for United, the feeling is they have already blown that opportunity. And with the Europa League final looming large, you could forgive Jose Mourinho for fielding an Under-23 side for the rest of the season.
Thursday's gruelling duel with Celta Vigo would suggest there will be plenty of changes this afternoon. United are already without Paul Pogba however, who is on compassionate leave following the death of his father on Friday. Marouane Fellaini meanwhile is still banned, while Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Ashley Young, Marcos Rojo, Luke Shaw and Timothy Fosu-Mensah all remain sidelined.
Team news: Tottenham
Mauricio Pochettino has no fresh injury concerns this afternoon. It had been reported that Danny Rose, sidelined with a knee injury since the end of January, could return today, having reappeared in training this week. The England international was ruled out by his manager on Friday, however.
White Hart Lane hosts its final ever game this afternoon. Next season Tottenham Hotspur will be put up at Wembley, 14 miles up the road. For the second season running, Manchester United are the last away team to play at one of London's famous old grounds; last season they were rocked by a electric Upton Park crowd as they fell to a 3-2 defeat to West Ham. Today's atmosphere in north London will be just as good. Can they cope?
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