Key events

90+6 min: United free-kick. Bayindir launches but it’s cleared….

90+5 min: Spurs fans get behind their team, Bruno’s cross ends up in the not-so safe hands of Forster. Bergvall goes down. Ange is shaking his head in disbelief.

Goal! Tottenham 4-3 Manchester United (Evans, 90+4)

Oh wow! They couldn’t, could they? It came from a corner.

90+1 min: Reguillon comes on, from his dental issues, for Djed Spence, a new cult hero. Johnson on, Solanke on.

Six minutes added on.

90 min: A tale of two very poor goalkeeping performances.

89 min: Bayindir was weak there, and says Bergvall was pushing him. Nah, not good enough. Reminder: NO VAR in this competition. Does he know? That goal is a goal.

Goal! Tottenham 4-2 Manchester United (Son, 88)

Straight from a corner!

Deary me. Photograph: Mike Egerton/PA
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86 min: United have lost a bit of momentum here. Fraser Forster is taking his time with his goal-kicks. Yoro tackles Son, who looked to have created an attack for Spurs, for the first time in a long while. Son takes his time over the corner.

84 min: Bissouma is almost thrown into trouble by Forster, and Bruno fouls. Forster looks an utterly nervous wreck. Bissouma will take his time.

83 min: Diallo is everywhere, and Forster and Gray have all types of trouble in stopping his bull-like run.

82 min: Diallo drills one and Forster kicks clear. Shades of late-stage Pat Jennings or Pat Bonner. Amad soon gets another chance to shoot.

81 min: Spurs gain some territory at last. But Bayindir has it, before some poor passing on both sides.

79 min: All United, all the time. Mainoo fouled by a desperate Maddison, who is soon enough subbed off. Maddison is replaced by Bergvall, and will now miss the first leg of the semi.

77 min: Diallo is destroying them, and forces a corner. This one comes back out but United now magnetic for the ball.

76 min: Nigel gets in touch: “Having filled a Ute with something other than diesel i can say the feeling of despair and the realisation you will soon be out of pocket by a $1000 + can not be replicated by a mere entertainment.”

Bloody oath!

75 min: United have an overload. If Zirkzee fancied it, he could have been in goal. Mazraoui fires wide. Tottenham seem incapable of keeping the ball.

74 min: Back to Forster again….and launched. No Spurs players showing for it now.

73 min: Will Forster play a goal-kick short? No, he gets it launched.

72 min: Maybe Ange was right about his job being harder than the prime minister. Does Sir Keir Starmer have to ask Fraser Forster to play out of defence?

71 min: If you want to see a more Spurs goal than that, then you will struggle. Garnacho is on for Ugarte. Spurs are still winning but…well.

Goal! Tottenham 3-2 Manchester United (Diallo, 70)

Ball passed back to Forster and Amad slides in and deflects the ball in.

Uh oh! Photograph: Mike Egerton/PA
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69 min: Tottenham fans sound very nervous indeed. Maddison is down, and taking the steam out of things. Amorim is sending on Garnacho, one of the derby dropped.

67 min: Bissouma almost knocks into his own net….oh, Spurs. Corner sees Amad drill a shot and that’s another corner. Kulusevski is the man who deals out his defence.

66 min: Giles B: “As a spurs fan, I’m thinking of 2020 when we were 3-0 up at home to Wham after 82 mins, only to concede 3 late goals”

Someone – was it Ange? – shouts: “You cannot be serious?” John McEnroe vibes.

64 min: Ange looks like someone’s filled his ute with diesel rather than four star. Amorim suddenly looks full of beans.

Goal! Tottenham 3-1 Manchester United (Zirkzee, 63)

Comedy stuff. Forster tries to play the ball out and in steps Bruno, and a pass inside and Zirkzee scores.

Calamitous stuff at the back for Tottenham. Photograph: Marc Atkins/Getty Images
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63 min: Fraser Forster is worked by a header that skids almost away from the giant keeper. It ends up a fine save.

61 min: Lisandro has been, as they say in Manchester, been torn a new one by Kulusevski. Bissouma cranks into Diallo. No foul, no injury.

60 min: Matthew Lysaght gets in touch: “At what stage do we label Lisandro Martinez an injury prone liability? He’s one of many, granted, but he seems to have avoided a lot of criticism over the last couple of seasons.”

Yes, a few fans fell for his initial performances, and his dirty play but he’s joining the ‘bust’ pile soon enough.

57 min: Kulusevski, all muscle and power and ability – just what United lack – forces a corner. Bayindir collects it.

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