Spurs hammer United in final White Hart Lane match
Hamilton beats Vettel in thrilling Spanish GP
Tottenham ended their final Premier League season at the old White Hart Lane unbeaten after a 2-1 victory over Manchester United on Super Sunday.
Having called the famous stadium home for 118 years, they produced a strong performance to bid farewell in style.
Victor Wanyama’s powerful header opened the scoring (6) and Harry Kane scored his first top-flight goal against United two minutes after the break.
Wayne Rooney threatened to spoil the party when he halved the deficit (71) but Tottenham held on in the pouring rain.
The win means Spurs leave White Hart Lane without defeat this season ahead of a move to Wembley, with their new home set to be ready for the 2018/19 campaign.
Jose Mourinho’s side can no longer make the top four and must now beat Ajax in their Europa League final on May 24 to reach next season’s Champions League. The hosts played up to the party atmosphere and struck after just six minutes.
Wanyama peeled off Rooney and planted a header past David de Gea after an excellent deep cross by Ben Davies.
It was the perfect start for Spurs against a United side that lacked energy in the first half, registering just one shot on target.
With the Europa League final in mind, Mourinho made eight changes as Rooney captained the side and Paul Pogba missed out following the death of his father on Friday.
Anthony Martial squandered their best chance of the first half, curling narrowly wide of the far post.
And they were fortunate to go in at the break just one goal Lewis Hamilton caught and passed Sebastian Vettel to win a thrilling Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona and reduce his championship deficit to six points after five rounds.
After racing each other by proxy for the first four grands prix, Hamilton and Vettel finally went wheel-towheel for the lead in Spain and the resulting race did not behind as De Gea made saves from Heung-Min Son, Dele Alli and Kane, while the Spurs forward also nodded over.
The save to deny Son was particularly impressive, with the South Korean bundling through the United defence only to be thwarted by the Spanish goalkeeper.
But his heroics proved to delay the inevitable as Tottenham capitalised on a fast start to the second half to double their lead.
United failed to defend an Eriksen set-piece and Kane diverted in his 28th goal of the season. disappoint. The race swung back and forth between the two, with Vettel beating Hamilton off the line before Mercedes brought Hamilton back into the race on an alternate strategy.
Hamilton still had to do his passing on the track, however, and did so on lap 44 with a move around the outside of Turn 1. Six laps earlier the pair had banged wheels as Vettel emerged from his first pit stop alongside Hamilton, but both drivers were happy to joke about the incident after the chequered flag. It was also a race in which Mercedes and Ferrari both lost a car to retirement, allowing Daniel Ricciardo to take third for Red Bull despite finishing 72 seconds off the pace of the front two.
Force India picked up a healthy 18 points in fourth and fifth ahead of Nico Hulkenberg in the Renault, who scored his third consecutive points finish in a row. Pascal Wehrlein finished seventh on the road for Sauber but dropped to eighth with a five second penalty for driving the wrong side of a bollard on the pit lane entrance.