Tottenham's hopeless attack finally has three solutions

Tottenham 2-2 Man Utd (Tel 84’, Richarlison 90+1 | Mbeumo 32’, De Ligt 90+6)

TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR STADIUM — The moment Xavi Simons’ number came up, Thomas Frank’s reign threatened to turn toxic. Spurs fans booed his substitutions and then watched them change the game.

It felt inexplicable that Matthijs De Ligt’s 96th-minute equaliser for Manchester United turned the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium into a crushing swamp of disappointment, given few inside it really believed the hosts had deserved the three points. But that is the extent to which Mathys Tel, Destiny Udogie and Wilson Odobert had reinvigorated a lifeless, inept attack.

All three should have started. The ecstasy of Richarlison’s late celebration was infectious but he had been symptomatic of everything wrong with an insipid front