Tottenham Hotspur V Manchester United: Premier League – live

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Morning everyone and invited to nan first Premier League crippled of nan weekend. It’s nan Sergio Reguilon derby! It’s a replay of nan past Europa League final! It can’t beryllium arsenic boring arsenic that was!

Say what you for illustration astir Spurs, they are Ruben Amorim’s bogey squad (and he has a fewer of those). They whitethorn person won only 3 location games successful nan convention successful nan past year, 2 of them against promoted teams, but nan different 1 was against Amorim’s United (1-0). They person besides near Amorim empty-handed successful nan League Cup (4-3) and that Europa last (another 1-0).

Last play these 2 celebrated clubs vanished 15th and 17th successful nan Premier League, keeping each different institution connected nan descent to incompetence. This play they person astatine slightest recovered their measurement backmost to respectability: Spurs are up 11 places to sixth while United are up 7 to eighth.

But Spurs person only done good distant and United, isolated from their triumph astatine Anfield, person only done good astatine home. United, arsenic soon arsenic they time off Salford, are a mid-table squad (tenth successful nan distant table); Spurs, astatine their ain stadium, are still a portion of mouldy food (17th successful nan location table). On form, we tin astir apt expect some of them to suffer today.

The bully news for Amorim is that his nemesis, Ange Postecoglou, is nary longer location to opportunity “Lads, it’s United”. His Spurs hoodoo whitethorn person been conscionable an Ange hoodoo. The bad news for Amorim is that since nan commencement of past play Spurs person 4 wins complete United pinch 3 cleanable sheets and a mixed people of 9-3. And they person 4 players who scored doubly successful those games, though 3 of them are now injured – James Maddison, Dejan Kulusevski and Dominic Solanke. So Brennan Johnson whitethorn person to do it each by himself, conscionable arsenic he did successful Bilbao.

Thomas Frank needs to determine who’s fresh to spell again aft nan 4-0 cruise past FC Copenhagen. Amorim, pinch nary European fixtures to interest about, needs to determine whether to instrumentality pinch nan XI who could only tie astatine Forest. The sole gathering truthful acold betwixt these managers, astatine Brentford six months ago, vanished 4-3 to Frank. Given that some United and Spurs overhauled their onslaught successful nan summertime while keeping religion pinch their defence, thing akin seems perfectly plausible.

The kick-off is astatine 12.30pm (GMT) and I’ll beryllium backmost soon pinch nan teams.