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Who: Tottenham Hotspur vs Manchester United
What: English Premier League
Where: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London
When: Saturday astatine 12:30pm (12:30 GMT)
How to follow: We’ll person each the build-up on Al Jazeera Sport from 09:30 GMT successful beforehand of our unrecorded substance commentary stream.
The weekend’s Premier League enactment begins successful northbound London wherever sixth-placed Tottenham Hotspur invited eighth-placed Manchester United.
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Provisional 2nd spot successful the array is up for grabs successful a grudge crippled for Ruben Amorim’s United broadside aft Spurs bushed them 1-0 successful past season’s Europa League final to forestall the Red Devils from playing successful the Champions League this season.
While the hosts are seeking to bounce backmost from a location decision by Chelsea past weekend, the visitors are unbeaten successful their past 4 Premier League matches – a series that includes a 2-1 win implicit champions and archrivals Liverpool, arsenic good arsenic past weekend’s battling 2-2 draw distant astatine Nottingham Forest.
Frank ‘happy’ with Spurs effect to Chelsea defeat
Following an insipid decision to Chelsea past weekend, Spurs person present mislaid 3 Premier League games astatine location this season. Their grounds astatine the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium implicit the past 12 months is adjacent worse – they person won conscionable 4 retired of 20 location league games, drafting 4 and losing 12.
Tottenham did astatine slightest get a boost successful midweek arsenic Spurs thrashed Copenhagen 4-0 astatine location to grounds their biggest triumph since manager Thomas Frank took charge.
Frank was reluctant to constituent to the triumph implicit a squad from his autochthonal Denmark arsenic a turning constituent aft a hard spell of 1 triumph successful five, but it lifts the temper earlier Saturday’s sojourn from Manchester United.
“We speech a batch astir that bounce-back mentality due to the fact that successful beingness and shot determination volition beryllium setbacks,” helium said.
“Every squad volition acquisition that and it’s however we respond to that to travel retired aft a atrocious crippled oregon a atrocious spell and travel backmost to it. That’s portion of a bully team. I’m precise blessed with the effect the players came with.”
Van de Ven makes amends with wonderment goal
Micky van de Ven got backmost successful favour with Frank arsenic the Tottenham defender’s stunning solo extremity during the rout of Copenhagen drew comparisons to Lionel Messi.
Van de Ven and Djed Spence were forced to apologise to Tottenham brag Frank this week aft they ignored his plea to applaud fans pursuing Saturday’s nonaccomplishment to Chelsea.
But Van de Ven retained his spot successful the starting lineup and produced a infinitesimal of magic, moving implicit fractional the magnitude of the transportation earlier delivering a objective decorativeness to score.
“It seems similar we had Lionel Messi turned into Micky van de Ven, roaring down from his ain extremity each the mode to the different extremity and scored a fantastic goal,” Frank said.
“I deliberation he’s our apical scorer successful each competitions, truthful helium tin support going.”
Van de Ven celebrates aft scoring Tottenham’s 3rd extremity against FC Copenhagen connected Tuesday [AFP]‘We are a amended team’
United volition not request information against Spurs, having mislaid each 4 games they played against Tottenham past season.
When asked however United had changed since the Europa League final, Amorim replied: “First of all, the characteristics of the players. So, we are a amended team, we play better, we recognize the crippled better. I deliberation we are much confident.
“We reached that last assured that we could triumph due to the fact that we were doing good successful Europe, but successful this infinitesimal we play with a antithetic confidence.
“We negociate the moments of the crippled better. But if you retrieve that game, they person that changeable connected the goal, they won the game.
“So, I expect a antithetic game, that we tin play better, but besides to person a small spot luck to assistance america to triumph the game.”
Amorim celebrates aft United bushed Brighton past period [Phil Noble/Reuters]Amorim hits backmost astatine Ronaldo criticism
Cristiano Ronaldo, who won 8 trophies astatine United, said this week that United were “not successful a bully path” aft a wretched play successful which the Red Devils finished 15th, and warned that Amorim was “not going to bash miracles” astatine Old Trafford.
Amorim, who took implicit from Erik 10 Hag successful November 2024, deed backmost by urging fans and pundits alike to look guardant alternatively than dwell connected the past.
“Of course, helium has a immense interaction successful everything helium said,” Amorim said connected Thursday.
“What we request to absorption [on] is successful the future. We cognize that we arsenic a nine made a batch of mistakes successful the past, but we are trying to alteration that. So let’s not absorption connected what happened. Let’s absorption [on] what we are doing now.
“We are changing a batch of things successful the structure, the mode we bash things, the mode we privation the players to behave. We are doing that and we are improving.”
Head-to-head
The 2 clubs person faced each different 204 times, with United winning 96 of those games, Tottenham winning 57 and 51 ending arsenic draws.
Despite doing the league treble implicit Man United past season, Spurs person lone won 4 of their past 12 Premier League games against the Red Devils, with 3 of their past 5 victories coming astatine Old Trafford.
As good arsenic beating United 1-0 successful the Europa League last past season, Spurs besides won a chaotic League Cup quarterfinal 4-3 astatine the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
The past clip United bushed Spurs was backmost successful October 2022, erstwhile goals from Fred and Bruno Fernandes gave the Red Devils a 2-0 triumph astatine Old Trafford.
Tottenham Hotspur’s squad news
Spurs could beryllium missing arsenic galore arsenic 10 players for United’s visit, with James Maddison, Dejan Kulusevski, Dominic Solanke, Radu Dragusin, Yves Bissouma, Ben Davies, Archie Gray and Kota Takai each ruled retired done injury.
Winger Mohammed Kudus is simply a uncertainty aft helium missed the triumph implicit Copenhagen with a knock, perchance opening the mode for Brennan Johnson to commencement connected the right.
Midfielder Lucas Bergvall is improbable to diagnostic owed to concussion protocols pursuing a stroke to the caput that forced his substitution against Chelsea past weekend.
Tottenham’s predicted starting lineup
Vicario; Porro, Romero, Van de Ven, Spence; Bentancur, Palhinha, Sarr; Johnson, Richarlison, Simons
Manchester United’s aboriginal squad news
United’s lone reported wounded interest is with centre back Lisandro Martinez, who has returned to grooming aft being sidelined since February with a genu wounded but is inactive regaining afloat fitness.
Harry Maguire returned to the seat for United’s 2-2 gully astatine Nottingham Forest past play aft recovering from a knock, truthful Amorim could callback the defender oregon instrumentality with Leny Yoro successful the backmost three.
United’s predicted starting lineup
Lammens; Yoro, De Ligt, Shaw; Amad, Casemiro, Fernandes, Dalot; Mbeumo, Cunha; Sesko
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