Before the Europa League final, football fans around the world hope to watch the dramatic and attractive confrontation, when both Man United and Tottenham are in the foot of the wall.They all spent the worst season in history and only the Europa League championship will bring a ticket to the European Cup next season.
However, the reality shows that it is difficult to find the most outstanding 10 minutes in this confrontation.It is true that the match of the two teams is ranked in the final group of the Premier League, with low professional quality and a series of awkward and inaccurate handling phases.
Telegraph described, in most of the first half of the match, both Man United and Tottenham rarely made more than 3 consecutive passes. Instead, the situation on the ball often ends with a pass, dropping the ball behind the defender's back to handle the striker, or trying to take the ball away as far as possible.
Tottenham have won the Europa League with just 115 successful passes - their lowest tally in a European Cup final since 2009-2010.
On the opposite side, Man United is not much better than the average, controlling the ball 74%, making 514 passes, achieving a success rate of 84% - a figure below the average of the Premier League teams.
Even the only goal of the match came from a clumsy handling of the two teams' players.
In the 42nd minute, from Pape Sarr's left cross, both Brennan Johnson and Luke Shaw could not finish or clear the ball out of the penalty area.
The ball kept coming back and forth through the goal line amid the helplessness of Andre Onana and the joy of the "Rooster" fans.
Immediately after the opening goal, Telegraph's journalist Dan Zeqiri commented: "Everyone watched this match, were feeling regretful about the time they spent to watch this match.Hopefully the opening goal will open new things, the second half will be more attractive." However, Dan Zeqiri's wish has not happened.
On the contrary, having a goal in the first half made the rest of the match quite gloomy and took place in the one -way game.
Ange Postecoglou's team actively defended but had no intention of playing counter-attacking. Meanwhile, M.U was completely deadlocked and did not create many truly dangerous opportunities.
Ruben Amorim's team handled errors and lacked accuracy in many situations. Mason Mount made a cross-line pass to Rasmus Hojlund, who was waiting in the box.
Guglielmo Vicario easily ended the situation when he had the ball in hand. The ball was passed up and control belonged to Man Utd players. Bruno Fernandes wasted a dangerous attack with a wrong pass.
The ball returned to the Man United players. Patrick Dorgu tried to pass long but was easily neutralized by the opposing defender. All of this happened in just about 3 minutes.
Its so chaotic. There was no clear playing style, no tactical intentions, and no counter-attacking situations. They just waited for a foul to prevent Man Utd from attacking. Both teams made the final match crumble. Can Tottenham really play like this all day?" - former Rangers player, Ally McCoist shared on TNT Sport channel.
The goalkeeper is also a position that the media and fans are particularly interested in, because Guglielmo Vicario and Andre Onana both play unstable and often make mistakes throughout the season.While Onana still made fans "the Red Devils" fear despite not facing many dangerous situations, Vicario colleagues had a relatively round match.
However, the Italian goalkeeper also almost became a criminal, with inaccurate and out of the ball, creating conditions for Hojlund to head up to the drum goal.Fortunately for Tottenham when Van De Ven is present in time and break the ball in time.This is also the most attractive and dangerous situation in the entire match.
The worst European Cup final in history ended, with Tottenham - who controlled the ball 27%, finishing 3 times with a shot on target to bring home the European Cup championship after a 17-year wait.
