Tottenham 2-2 Manchester United: Big questions with Benjamin Sisco injured

We also have to take Frank seriously when he said that his selection of two direct attacking players in Richarlison and Randall Kolo Mwani was based on exploiting his opponents’ weaknesses.

“We wanted two strikers for crosses, which we thought was an area where we could do damage to United,” Frank said, pointing to an early chance missed by Richarlison as proof his selection was correct.

But the former Brentford boss has been mixing his messaging too.

Frank felt Spurs did well to limit United to five shots.

However, he stressed that this does not mean to say that his defense actually played well.

“I don’t think I said they played well,” he said.

“The two shots, maybe even on goal, were situations we could have probably done better.

“We will of course look into that and review the details.”

The biggest advantage from Spurs’ point of view is that they have not lost a third home Premier League game in a row, which also means they have avoided a 10th home defeat in 2025, which would have been a record for a calendar year.

However, they have collected just 14 points from their last 20 home games. No top-flight team has a worse record than that.

However, on a strange day, as neither team played well, but both contributed to a memorable game, one positive for Frank was that they did not lose.

“We are playing at home and I know we need to win so we don’t talk about it [losing at home]He said.

“But the way we stayed in the game in the second half and kept doing the right things, I’m very happy with that.

“It was a game where both teams tried to cancel each other out a little bit.

“We always want to create more chances, but you can turn it around and say, ‘We scored two goals in a situation where it was difficult to create chances.’