Hits and misses: Man Utd lack guts and fight, but can Leeds dare to dream?

Sky Sports football writers analyse Saturday's action as Manchester United and Tottenham suffer damaging defeats on the opening weekend; Arsenal look like the team to beat while Leeds, Everton and Ipswich Town pick up vital wins

Hull nailed their set-up with a back five too physical for Bryan Mbeumo and Matheus Cunha, and wing-backs in Lewie Coyle and Ryan Giles who served target man Oli McBurnie well.

But this was about fight and spirit over anything on Sergej Jakirovic's tactics board. Winning almost two thirds of both their duels and headers before the break was just reward for the intensity, energy and belief they brought to the game - and United did not match it.

It was inevitable that the Tigers would be fired up after riding the wave of promotion, but it felt as though Michael Carrick's side hadn't realised. They failed to do the basics right and were punished.

A video of McBurnie dribbling around a static Andrey Santos and Youri Tielemans will rightly do the rounds on social media and only epitomised their performance on Humberside.

People may point to a lack of quality in the Man Utd side but without the hunger and desire to do those basics, it would have made little difference. Ron Walker

Spurs boss Roberto De Zerbi spoke about creating a "team I have in my dream" after securing Premier League survival at the end of last season. Well, the new season has started in nightmare fashion.

In their 3-0 defeat at Brentford, Spurs were as bad as they were during that relegation dogfight last year.

After spending over £230m in the transfer window and fielding five debutants at the Gtech, that's hard to fathom. They should have been transformed. That was the expectation.

But it was not the quality of the players on the pitch that was the issue - it was, once again, the mentality.

"We were not ready to fight," admitted De Zerbi. "The first XI was able to compete."

New faces, a new captain but a familiar problem after Spurs' application was repeatedly criticised last season.

The stats reflected it on Saturday. In that shocking first half, Spurs striker Richarlison managed to win just two of his eight duels. At the other end of the pitch, new centre-back Jan Paul van Hecke won just two of his seven.

Spurs were repeatedly second to the ball, outmuscled in challenges and run over by an incredibly intense Brentford side. The second goal was the perfect illustration of that.