Win lifts pressure on Ole
objective as us up – trying to get up the table and reach the top six. We need to keep going.
“We made mistakes but it’s not good to be crying about them now, we have a difficult match on Saturday.”
United’s victory also eased the pressure on manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer ahead of Saturday’s Manchester derby at champions City and lifted his side into sixth spot.
Solskjaer said of Rashford: “He was strong, he’s played all the games, more or less this season.
“The boy is getting fitter and fitter, more and more experienced. What a performance.
“He creates the goals himself. He should have had two more but for great saves by the keeper.
“Now it’s City. We’ve got two days’ recovery and we go again.”
Rashford said: “That’s the hardest we’ve had to work to get a result. Game by game, we’re trying to improve.
“We had a lot of shots and the keeper made good saves.”
Mourinho praised his former charge, Rashford, saying: “When he plays from the left he is really dangerous and I knew that and gave the players the best information about it.
“His first goal is a typical Rashford goal coming on the inside.”
But Dele said Spurs were perhaps too arrogant, saying: “We weren’t hungry enough and we were slow to every second ball, losing 50-50s.
“Maybe it was a bit of arrogance and over-confidence. We’ve been playing well. You have to have confidence and arrogance in games like this but have to use it in the right way. We were a bit sloppy.”