NEW YORK -- Jack Drury, one of the key acquisitions in the Colorado Avalanche's major trade last week, scored his first goal in his new uniform as his club outlasted the New York Rangers 5-4 on Sunday.

Artturi Lehkonen scored the tiebreaking goal with 14.7 seconds left and Mackenzie Blackwood made 33 saves for the Avalanche, who were playing on the back end of back-to-back games, having lost to the Boston Bruins on Saturday.

"It was pretty big," Colorado coach Jared Bednar said of the effort. "Just because, coming off two losses, it's not our most consistent segment. And tonight, in Game 51, with new guys in the lineup, we want to begin feeling good about our game, and tonight, [we had] good defensive conscience, good work in the offensive zone and created a bunch of chances."

Defenseman Cale Makar scored twice and assisted on the winning goal, while Juuso Parssinen also scored for the Avalanche, who won for the first time since acquiring Martin Necas and Drury in the league-rattling trade Friday that sent top Colorado scorer Mikko Rantanen to the Carolina Hurricanes.

Necas and Avalanche captain Nathan MacKinnon each had two assists in the victory.

"I thought he was great, I thought that whole line was good," Bednar said of Necas. "I think that Marty could have had three goals himself. He did a lot of good things."

MacKinnon concurred with his coach.

"He's been awesome," he said of Necas. "Pretty quick turnaround for him. So, with those circumstances, he's still looked unreal. The plays that he made tonight, with his speed, he's a great passer ... and he was everywhere."

The Rangers trailed 4-2 late in the second before defenseman Will Borgen scored at 18:05 followed by Artemi Panarin's 21st goal of the season to tie it at 15:02 of the third.

But after the Rangers failed to score on a late third-period power play, Lehkonen beat Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin to finish a slick passing play with Makar for his 20th goal.

"I thought we got good contributions throughout our lineup," Bednar said. "And to be able to stay with it, and end it that way, was nice."

Sam Carrick and Vincent Trocheck also scored for the Rangers, who lost for the first time in regulation since Jan. 4.

Drury opened the scoring with his fourth goal of the season. Makar made it 2-0 just 43 seconds later.

Carrick answered with his fifth of the season at 7:10. Trocheck followed with his 15th of the season at 8:36.

Makar scored his second of the game and 18th this season on the power play at 14:36 of the first. Makar leads all NHL defensemen with 56 points.

Shesterkin made 16 saves for the Rangers, who saw their four-game home winning streak snapped. New York is 8-2-3 in January.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Tottenham Hotspur head coach Ange Postecoglou has admitted that his job is not safe after the team succumbed to a 13th Premier League defeat of the season against Leicester City on Sunday.

Spurs took the lead through Richarlison in the first half, only for Jamie Vardy and Bilal El Khannouss to both net within five minutes after the restart.

Ruud van Nistelrooy's team, who had lost their previous seven league games, held out for the rest of the contest to earn a notable three points that moved them out of the relegation zone and piled more pressure on the Spurs' Australian coach, who saw his own team's winless streak in the division extend to seven.

Asked whether he should remain in the hot seat, Postecoglou said: "Who knows? A fair chunk will say no.

"When you are a manager of a football club, you can feel vulnerable and isolated, I don't feel that. The players are giving everything. I focus on that and try and support the players."

The former Celtic boss added that the defeat was a painful one, though he is not setting out to show critics that his methods work.

"Yeah, it hurts. It hurts a lot. The players gave everything again. We are going to look at a lot of things, but in terms of effort I can't ask any more of this group, things just didn't go our way today," Postecoglou said.

"It doesn't come into my conscious[ness] trying to convince people, I've been around long enough that people will judge where we are at the moment, which hasn't been good enough.

"In the next 10 days we should get some significant players back which will help. We still have fantastic opportunities to make an impact -- I'm sure that will happen."

The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium's atmosphere was souring even before the full-time whistle, with fans in some sections unfurling banners calling for change regarding the manager and at board level.

Protests against chairman Daniel Levy have grown louder in recent weeks as the team's form has slumped, though Postecoglou said he considered unifying the club as part of his remit.

"When I took the role I wanted to unify the club, focusing on the one thing. It hasn't worked out that way. It's understandable the fans aren't happy with the situation," he said.

"I don't speak regularly to [Levy] -- we have regular contact in particular during the January period. Players and staff are united in what we're trying to do. I'm not trying to convince people about we're heading. That's where I get the solace to say we can believe."

Spurs are 15th in the league table with 24 points from 23 games, eight points above the relegation zone. They play Elfsborg in the Europa League on Thursday before a trip to Brentford on Sunday.

Manchester United laboured to a 1-0 win away at Fulham on Sunday via Lisandro Martínez's deflected long-range effort.

Martínez's speculative strike in the 78th minute bounced off Sasa Lukic and looped over Bernd Leno in the home side's goal.

The win will come as welcome domestic respite for United head coach Ruben Amorim, who saw his team handily beaten by Brighton last weekend for a sixth defeat in nine games in the division.

Fulham came close to an equaliser in the final minutes, with academy graduate Toby Collyer clearing Joachim Andersen's header from a corner off the line.

Substitute Rodrigo Muniz had one final chance in stoppage time, but the striker blasted well over the bar from inside the penalty area.

Immediately afterwards, Amad looked to have sealed the three points in the dying moments after combining neatly with Kobbie Mainoo, but the goal was ruled out for offside.

"I think I was lucky, but an important win," Martinez told TNT Sports. "I am happy with the way we won the game. It doesn't matter who scores -- the most important is the three points.

"It means a lot. Not only to the fans, but for us because we have suffered a lot. It is a hard win, at this club the pressure is hard, but we are here. We know how difficult it is. Even a game like today we have to win and be humble after winning."

The result moves United into 12th in the league standings, four points behind Fulham in 10th.

"One shot on target from Man Utd -- a lucky deflection," Fulham coach Marco Silva said after the loss.

"We were the team that dominated more. We had two or three good moments to score but I don't remember one dangerous moment from Man Utd."

Barcelona snapped their four-match winless streak in LaLiga with an emphatic 7-1 victory over Valencia on Sunday, with Fermin Lopez scoring an impressive double and adding two assists.

De Jong opened the scoring after just three minutes with a right-footed shot that found the bottom left-hand corner.

Ferran Torres doubled the lead five minutes later when he latched onto Alejandro Balde's through ball. Raphinha then capitalised on a defensive error to make it 3-0 before the 15-minute mark.

Lopez added a fourth on 24 minutes and a fifth before the break with a powerful shot from the right.

Hugo Duro grabbed a consolation for Valencia after the break with a shot from close range. But Barcelona continued to dominate and substitute Robert Lewandowski added a sixth before an unfortunate own goal from Cesar Tarrega secured Hansi Flick's side victory.

Barcelona sit third in the standings with 42 points, three behind second-placed Atletico Madrid and seven behind leaders Real Madrid.

The police have launched investigations into "threats and abuse" aimed at referee Michael Oliver and his family after Myles Lewis-Skelly controversial red card in Arsenal's 1-0 victory at Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday.

Oliver sent off Lewis-Skelly in the 43rd minute, with the Arsenal full-back deemed to have committed a serious foul play challenge on Matt Doherty.

The decision, which was supported by the VAR, received widespread criticism from pundits and supporters. Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta said he was "absolutely fuming" about Lewis-Skelly's dismissal.

Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL), the body in charge of refereeing in English football, issued a statement on Sunday evening to reveal that Oliver had been subjected to attacks.

"We are appalled by the threats and abuse directed at Michael Oliver following the Wolverhampton Wanderers v Arsenal fixture," PGMOL's statement read. "No official should be subject to any form of abuse, let alone the abhorrent attacks aimed at Michael and his family over the past 24 hours.

"The police are aware, and a number of investigations have commenced. We are supporting Michael, and all those affected, and are determined to tackle this unacceptable behaviour.

"Sadly, this is not the first time a match official has been forced to deal with threats in recent times. We will continue to support all investigations."

The Premier League shared a statement of their own in support of Oliver.

"The Premier League strongly condemns the threats and abuse directed at Michael Oliver," it read. "No official should be subject to any form of abuse. We will continue to support Michael, PGMOL and all investigations."

Mike Dean took a step away from refereeing for a short period in 2021 after reporting death threats to the police. It came after a controversial decision to send off West Ham United midfielder Tomás Soucek against Fulham.

Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim said he would rather play his 63-year-old goalkeeper coach Jorge Vital in his team than Marcus Rashford unless the out-of-favor forward starts to "give the maximum every day in training and in life."

England international Rashford was left out of the team for the 11th successive game by Amorim during United's 1-0 Premier League win at Fulham on Sunday.

The 27-year-old said last month that he was ready to seek a "new challenge" away from Old Trafford after being dropped for United's 2-1 win against Manchester City at the Etihad on Dec. 15, but Rashford has so far been unable to find a new club during the January transfer window.

And despite strikers Rasmus Højlund and Joshua Zirkzee scoring just one goal between them since the beginning of December, Amorim said he would not restore Rashford to the team unless he changes his attitude.

"It's the same, it's always the same reason," Amorim said when asked why he continued to overlook Rashford. "The reason is the training, the way I see what footballers should do in training, in life, it's every day, every detail.

"So if things don't change, I will not change. It's the same situation for every player. If you do the maximum, if you do the right things, we can use every player. And you can see it today on the bench, we miss a little bit of pace to go and change the game, move some pieces.

"But I prefer it like that. I will put Vital on before I put a player on that don't give the maximum every day. So I will not change in that department."

Amorim, who arrived from Portuguese champions Sporting CP in November, celebrates his 40th birthday on Monday. But after the Fulham win, he said he feels much older after his brief stint at United.

"It's not 40 ... I'm 50!" he said. "After two months at Manchester United, it's 50. It's a privilege to spend my 40th birthday here. That feeling of winning and three points is really important for us. You cannot see a great improvement in the team and that is a fact, but to win helps us to improve.

"We've had some lack of luck in some games. Today, was not the best match but we managed to win. The important thing is I have a clear idea of what I want to do. Sometimes I'm frustrated. We want to play a different style and we are going to play a different style in the future."