Premier League 2019/20: Manchester United 2-1 Tottenham Hotspur - 5 talking points

3. Did United create enough chances?

Despite Marcus Rashford's outstanding performance, Manchester United didn't create many chances

Fans of Manchester United should walk away happy with this result, but with a slight caveat; for as well as they played, it didn’t feel like they created enough chances to really put Tottenham away, and had Spurs stolen a late equaliser, the Red Devils could hardly have felt aggrieved.

Marcus Rashford – voted Man of the Match on the Amazon Prime broadcast – was fantastic, and looked almost unplayable at times as he ran at Serge Aurier and Moussa Sissoko and tormented both players with his quick feet, but despite having seven shots on target, it didn’t feel like Spurs were being truly bombarded at any point.

Most notably, Rashford’s first goal should’ve been saved by Paulo Gazzaniga, who was beaten at his near post, and his second was a penalty after a very rash challenge from Sissoko. Had Tottenham been able to prevent those two chances, would United have scored? I’m not so sure, and that should give Ole Gunnar Solskjaer cause for concern even in victory.