Hello and welcome to this bonus episode of The View from the Lane, our new Tottenham Hotspur podcast from The Athletic.

My name's Jack Pitbrook.

I'm your host, and while I'm currently in London, I'm joined by Charlie Eccleshare, the Athletics-Tottenham correspondent, who's in Manchester having just been to Tottenham's defeat at Old Trafford.

Charlie, what did you think about it?

It was disappointing.

They never really got going.

I mean, apart from a sort of, I don't know, five, ten minutes spell at the end of the first

half where they got their equaliser sort of out of nowhere.

It looked like, man, you were the better team for most of the game, which was surprising, really, because, you know, obviously

United went into it, kind of mid-table, not really having done much this season, but that was

more or less the best they played. They looked galvanised and spurs were just a bit flat.

And, you know, the midfield pairing of Sosco and Winks has come in for a lot of criticism

and it didn't really work.

Spurs were open for most of the game without carrying too much of a threat themselves going forward.

So, yeah, it was a disappointing evening, all and all.

Watching the game at home, I was really struck by how Spurs didn't really create anything

at all.

Even Deli Allie's goal, which will come on to later, was kind of out of nowhere.

There was very, very little in open play, not much from set pieces.

It reminded me a little bit of when Spurs lost 2-1 and Field

earlier on in the season when Pochchino was still manager,

where they scored a fairly random goal,

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