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78 min: Johnson, who may or may not be the goalscorer, is replaced by Danso. Big Ange goes defensive, with the trophy now within touching distance.
76 min: United have turned up the tempo. Shaw bursts down the left and goes over the sliding Romero’s leg. He wants a penalty but he’s not getting it. Goal kick. Shaw was outside the box anyway, though it probably should have been a free kick. Spurs get away with one.
75 min: Garnacho drives in from the left and curls powerfully towards the bottom-right corner. Vicario does well to get down and whip the ball around the post with a strong hand. The resulting corner is only half cleared, and Diallo wins another one with a dribble down the right. Spurs deal with the second one.
73 min: Space for Mazraoui down the inside-right channel. Too much space from a Spurs perspective. He curls towards Fernandes, running into the box. Fernandes stoops and steers a header wide right. Good chance, that. Fernandes will have expected to do better. “Edward O’Brien’s half-time email reminds me of a letter to the editor in the LA Times sometime in the 1980s about people criticising Ronald and Nancy Reagan,” writes Michael Fugate. “Which went something like: ‘Ron and Nancy seem like nice people. Doesn’t niceness count for anything?’”
71 min: United make a double change. Hojlund and Mount make way for Garnacho and Zirkzee.
70 min: If Spurs win this final, they’ll replay that Van de Ven clearance more than the goal. It’ll get a good airing either way, to be fair.
68 min: Bissouma is booked for stopping Diallo taking a quick free kick. The resulting set piece is hoicked into the mixer from the centre circle by Fernandes. Vicario comes off his line to claim. He doesn’t manage it. Hojlund loops a header over the stranded keeper and it’s heading in. But Van de Ven acrobatically hooks off the line! A spectacular bicycle kick! Spurs draw a foul in the next phase of play and the danger is over. United so close to an equaliser. Spurs deny them in style.
66 min: Off comes Richarlison’s boot. He’s done. His captain Son comes on to replace him. Meanwhile Ruben Amorim takes the opportunity to issue beneficial tactical advice to his team.
65 min: Richarlison goes down, looking over to the bench and performing the substitution hand-mime as he does so.
64 min: Richarlison whips a clearance down the left touchline. Fernandes telescopes a leg to divert it out for a throw, and United are fortunate he did, because otherwise Johnson was scampering into acres down the flank.
62 min: Johnson romps down the right and is upended by Dorgu, but doesn’t get the decision. United go up the other end, Diallo twisting and turning down the inside-left channel but failing to get a shot away. And then Spurs counter the counter, Solanke one-twoing with Udogie down the middle, only to stumble when receiving the return pass. He was in space just inside the United box. A huge chance wasted.
60 min: United have completed 241 passes to Tottenham’s 96. Much good it’s done them so far. “Am I missing the point or is Edward O’Brien’s half time email not meant to be hilarious?” asks Stephen McCrossan. I can’t speak for him, but we should remind ourselves that irony is flat on the page.
58 min: Richarlison fouls an in-flight Mazraoui out on the right. He’s booked, possibly for repeated offences, given seconds earlier he was rolling around on the floor with the ball in his hands to annoy Fernandes. Anyway, the free kick’s whipped to the near post by Fernandes, and Yoro extends a leg to get a soft touch on the ball. He can’t force it into the bottom right, though, and Vicario does enough to scoop it away. Close.
56 min: The atmosphere at San Mamés feels a little bit more jittery now. Both sets of fans pensive, for differing reasons. A very real sense of everything being on the line tonight.
54 min: Richarlison wins a free kick on the halfway line. Van de Ven chips it down the left channel. Richarlison eyebrows it on, but Sarr’s offside.
52 min: It’s all a bit flat at the moment, which will suit Spurs more than United.
50 min: He can’t beat the first man Bissouma. The whistle goes for a foul, releasing the pressure on Spurs. Romero and Maguire continue to wrestle in the playground style, and the referee comes across to remind them that they have a combined age of 59.
49 min: Van de Ven is booked for nudging Hojlund in the back with the pair in mid-air contesting a high ball. Fernandes to send the resulting free kick in from the right.
48 min: Some cute combination play between Diallo and Mazeaoui down the inside-right channel. Diallo then wedges a cross into the centre, where Hojlund heads harmlessly over. Better from United, though.
47 min: A start to the second half that’s in keeping with the first.
Manchester United get the second half underway. No changes.
Another delve into the half-time postbag. “This game has been abject so far. Most of the time has been spent rolling on the floor. Man Utd have mustered an xG of 0.21, whilst Spurs have only had 37% of the ball. Both teams look bereft of ideas and lacking confidence. It’s easy to see why both of these teams are so far down the Premier League table” – Steven Grundy
“It would only be fitting if there was a scuffed equaliser here, with the game dragging on into the 129th minute, only for it to be decided by a fluffed panenka in the penalty shoot-out” – Mark Hooper
“The disrespect for two teams in a European final on this feed is appalling. Yes, they have been poor in the league this season, but this is still a major tournament and 99% of football fans will never see their club on this stage. Banter is all well and good, but show some respect” – Edward O’Brien
Uefa have reportedly given the goal to Brennan Johnson. I’d file that one under “For Now”.
Half-time postbag. “Sometimes when two teams from the same country and division meet in Europe there’s a decision to be made over how to approach it. Play it like a premier league game or treat it as you would any other European tie. The Liverpool v Forest game in 1978 as a prime example. It’s the type of dilemma that’s faced great teams and managers for decades. Here Spurs and United have tried to find a third way – treat it like a non-league game” – Chris Kempshall
“Somehow, terribly, it would be perfect if this European final between the sixteenth and seventeenth best teams in the Premiership was decided by a scrappy own goal” – Peadar de Burca
“That goal is a microcosm of our entire season. Scrappy, awful, ugly, but at the end of it Brennan Johnson appears with a goal. And yes, it was an own goal by Shaw, but who cares? That lad has had so much terrible criticism and hate directed at him this season: now he turns up to create that goal on the biggest stage of his life!” – Alexandra Ashton
“I feel that the Premier League might be wishing for a chyron for international viewers constantly reminding them the position of these two teams in the league” – Ian Usher
“What’s the funniest outcome here? Spurs continuing their streak without a trophy? Or Sir Jim having to cancel the big team barbecue? I’m leaning towards Sir Jim having to throw out all the yellow stickered meat he’s bought following a Spurs victory” – Jonny Bull
Half-time entertainment. It’s topical.
HALF TIME: Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 Manchester United
It’s been scrappy. The goal was super-scrappy. Like Spurs care right now.
45 min +2: Another chance for Fernandes to send a free kick into the Spurs box, this time from the left. He looks long for Maguire but Romero heads clear. Diallo crosses from the right but Vicario comes miles off his line to claim. A huge cheer from the Spurs fans.
45 min: There will be two minutes of additional time.
44 min: Fernandes tries to hit back immediately, sending a free kick into the Spurs mixer from the right flank. It’s hooked clear by Bissouma. United come again, Casemiro dinking a pass down the inside-right for Fernandes, who shoots first time, but it’s instantly blocked by Van de Ven.
GOAL! Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 Manchester United (Shaw 42 og)
Out of nothing! Sarr crosses from the left. Johnson arrives at the near post. He swings a boot at the ball. He doesn’t connect properly, slicing the ball behind him. It hits Shaw and drops, in super slo-mo, into the bottom left, just out of Onana’s desperate swipe!
40 min: Diallo jinks in from the right and bobbles a shot straight at Vicario. “I can’t believe that when you referenced these two teams’ only previous meeting in European competition, that the phrase ‘oh, what a night’ didn’t feature,” writes Simon McMahon. “Or that four seasons later United would be champions of England.”
39 min: This is pretty scrappy.
37 min: Yoro tries to shepherd the ball back to Onana, but the keeper doesn’t show. Yoro dithers, and is nearly stripped by a combination of Bissouma and Sarr. The ball ricochets back to the keeper, and the danger for United is over.
36 min: It’s a free kick in a dangerous position, but Porro’s delivery is no good.
35 min: Udogie is about to race off down the inside-left channel. Diallo grabs a huge handful of his shirt. The pair keep sprinting, though, and eventually Fernandes turns up to foul Udoigie. Then Diallo goes into the book.
34 min: Bissouma zips down the left touchline and is slyly brought to ground by Mazraoui’s knee. The referee waves play on. Spurs not happy. It should have been a free kick, but nothing more.
32 min: Some more joy for Diallo as he races down the right wing. He’s got time and space, but blasts a wild cross over everyone’s head. Good field position wasted.
30 min: Diallo is causing some bother down the right. He sends Udogie this way and that before crossing low. Yoro waits to sidefoot home, but Johnson slides in to hook the cross clear. Then Romero goes down, having taken an accidental arm in the chops from Hojlund. There didn’t look any malicious intent in that, and thankfully Tottenham’s captain for the day is good to continue.
29 min: Some head tennis, then the corner is cleared.
28 min: Udogie crosses long from the left. Dorgu, under no pressure, needlessly chests it behind for a corner. Communication with Onana up the spout. Porro to deliver.
26 min: Onana hoicks a long free kick out on the full. He has the good grace to look a bit sheepish. “Picking up on Kári Tulinius’s religious theme, I spent some time in Pisa’s cathedral yesterday and in Lucca’s today,” reports Gary Naylor. “Red devils are an ever-present, but invisible presence in the medieval iconography. As, indeed, they are in United’s midfield when they don’t have the ball.”
24 min: Solanke spins into a little space and looks to launch a counter attack. Casemiro brings him down from behind. The Spurs players want a yellow card, but the referee’s not going to do that. It would have been a soft booking, but you’ve seen them given for less. There wasn’t much contact, but Casemiro certainly knew what he was doing.
23 min: Johnson and Bentancur pair up to foul Mount out on the left. Fernandes looks long for Maguire, who can’t connect. But United continue to pin Spurs back in their own final third.
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