Solskjaer has ‘delayed the inevitable’ by Man Utd beating ‘bang average’ Spurs

Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is still destined to be axed despite overseeing Saturday's 3-0 win over Tottenham, according to Gabby Agbonlahor.

Solskjaer needed a positive result against Spurs to save his job after United were embarrassed 5-0 by bitter rivals Liverpool last weekend.

Goals from Cristiano Ronaldo, Edinson Cavani and Marcus Rashford sealed a vital win for the Norwegian – and left opposing boss Nuno Espirito Santo under the cosh.

But pundit Agbonlahor has insisted that Solskjaer has only delayed the inevitable, despite United's convincing win over Spurs.

“The players played for him today,” Agbonlahor told talkSPORT. “From the first second of the game, they showed fight. They were fighting for Solskjaer.

“This was the obvious formation to play; your defenders are struggling, if you’re struggling to keep clean sheets, what are you going to do?

“You’re going to go five at the back, it’s not rocket science. I said it midweek, play five at the back, stop the goals going in and you have goalscorers in your team.

“You could have played Ronaldo, Cavani, Greenwood or Rashford as your two strikers because they would have scored today.

“Rashford comes on scores, you’re playing against a bang-average Spurs team. Basically, for me, this is just prolonging what is going to happen.

“Ole is going to leave Manchester United, but you’ve got to give him credit for getting the result today.”

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Reports in the immediate aftermath of United's shambolic display last Sunday had suggested that they had made contact with former Chelsea boss Antonio Conte as a potential replacement for Solskjaer.

But the Old Trafford hierarchy appear to be sticking with Solskjaer for now.

And he made the most of his temporary reprieve by making the switch to a back five to finally halt United's agonising run of 10 games without a clean sheet.

"The performance was really good from the start, it was really good from Tuesday morning, when we worked on something that we felt and hoped and thought was going to work, and it did," Solskjaer said.

"Every man to a tee did their jobs and we kept a clean sheet and kept the ball away from David [de Gea], he didn't have a save to make.

"There is many things behind the tactics we used. One was solidity, we managed to get Raphael [Varane] slap bang in the middle of the back four because we needed a clean sheet.

"We needed to control the game with the ball and we did. We got Edinson and Cristiano to play together as a front two, and we got width from the wing-backs.

"If you change to a back three and you don't get a result you are going to be scrutinised, but we felt it worked and the coaches have done a very good job to put that in place."

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