Pogba helps Man United draw at Spurs on return from injury

Paul Pogba made an instantaneous affect on his return from surgical procedure, incomes a penalty transformed by Bruno Fernandes that recovered for Manchester United a 1-1 draw at Tottenham within the English Premier League on Friday.

While the groups have endured three months with out video games within the pandemic, Pogba hasn’t performed since December. And he entered solely within the 63rd minute at an empty Tottenham stadium with the hosts main from Steven Bergwijn’s 27th-minute strike via goalkeeper David de Gea’s palms.

“David is disappointed with it but the ball was moving,” United supervisor Ole Gunnar Solskjaer stated.

Pogba, whose United future has been mired in uncertainty, helped to inject some attacking dynamism that United had been lacking.

After Pogba was bundled off the ball by Eric Dier, Fernandes netted his third penalty since becoming a member of United in January.

“Paul showed some real quality out there,” Solskjaer stated. “He contributed really, really much for us to get a point and maybe could have helped us to get the three points. He did everything a midfielder should do. He tackled, he won the ball. He played passes and he showed some skills, so fantastic to have him back.”

United was denied a second penalty when VAR overturned the choice to penalize Dier for an additional foul — this time on Fernandes.

United is three factors behind fourth-placed Chelsea having performed an additional recreation. But fifth place will clinch a Champions League spot if second-placed Manchester City’s two-year ban from Europe is upheld subsequent month for breaking monetary guidelines. Tottenham remained 4 factors behind United.

The begin of the sport noticed gamers instantly take a knee as a part of the Black Lives Matter protests.