Have to say that the fact that we held on and that towards the end it was they who tired, not us was the most pleasing aspect of the game. Responding from 2-1 to 3-1 will put the fear into teams. OK it went 3-2 but we held on. Under previous regimes we did not. Not only did our win today help our own player's mentality it will make other teams (especially top teams)fear/respect us. Collosal win today. This is our most important win since the Wembley Chelsea win.
We were lucky more than good. We play that game 100 times, we'll lose 95 times. No different to every other game at Old Trafford for the past 20 years, United just didn't have the luck today.
Delighted at the result but the performance wasn't amazing
Our herose for the history books:
Defence: Friedel, Walker, Gallas, Caulker, Dawson, Vertonghen (1 goal)
Midfield: Lennon, Sandro, Dempsey (1 goal), Bale (1 goal), Huddlestone, Sigurdsson, Dembele
Attack: Defoe
Contradicted yourself there mate. Of course we were lucky. We shat on United for 45 minutes. But they were all over us in the second half. Could have easily scored more than the required 3 goals to ruin our evening. I don't recall a single decent effort on goal after Dempsey's goal. We were lucky that this time. But to me, that makes it all the sweeter. Because IMO we played better than today when we played them in March, when we lost 3-1 at home. On that day, we just couldn't stick the ball in the net, whereas the chances fell nicely for them. There have been several other occasions where this has been the case over the last 20 odd years. We did a "Chelsea" in the second half, but it was enough to win the game, which is all that matters. Is this the best I've seen us play against Man Utd? Definitely not. Is this the best result we've got against them? Absolutely yes. That's football. And the fact that they should have had two penalties makes it all the sweeter for me! \o/\o/\o/
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Sir Alex Ferguson: Amount of injury time an insult
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Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson said the four minutes of injury time added to his team's defeat by Tottenham was an "insult".
Clint Dempsey scored the winner as Spurs won 3-2 to win at Old Trafford for the first time in 23 years.
Ferguson said: "It was disappointing because the record has been fantastic.
"They gave us four minutes [injury time], that's an insult to the game. It denies you a proper chance to win a football match."
Andre Villas Boas's side went two goals ahead as Jan Vertonghen scored within two minutes and Gareth Bale added another in the first half, before a frantic period after the break where three goals came in two minutes.
Nani reduced the deficit but a minute later Dempsey made it 3-1 and, although Shinji Kagawa closed the gap once more, Spurs defended stoutly to hang on.
Ferguson told BBC Sport: "There were six substitutions, the trainer came on, so that's four minutes right away and the goalkeeper must have wasted about two or three minutes and they took their time at every goal kick.
"That's obvious to everyone today and it's a flaw in the game that the referee is responsible for time keeping. It's ridiculous that it's 2012 and the referee still has control of that."
Manchester United have now lost two of their six Premier League games, and sit third in the table behind leaders Chelsea and Everton.
Ferguson said he was pleased with the second half performance where Wayne Rooney hit the post from a free-kick, while Michael Carrick had a header come back off the bar.
But the Scot said his side paid for a poor first-half showing where both Vertonghen and Bale carved through the hosts's defence.
"The most important thing was the first half," Ferguson added. "We didn't start, we were lackadaisical and lost a goal after two minutes, and you give yourself an uphill fight with that situation.
"In the second half we were terrific, it was a great performance by them, and we were unlucky not to win it... and if we had held the scoreline at 2-1 for a few minutes I think we would have won the match."
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