Jose Mourinho gets reminder of scale of Spurs rebuild

The result ended a run of three straight wins for Spurs in that time, and allowed United to move to sixth place.

There were really only two ways this match would finish — either Jose Mourinho would continue on his road to redemption by winning his first game back at Old Trafford, or Ole Gunnar Solskjaer would show that he is the man for Manchester United’s future, by putting one over the old master.

The fact that it was the latter rather than the former owed everything to the performance of Marcus Rashford, who scored twice and could have had more on a night when United’s collective desire to to beat up their former boss was greater than Tottenham’s attempts to keep their upwards momentum since Mourinho took charge a fortnight ago.