Jose and Ole's Friday night tussle will be tight

Jose Mourinho welcomes the visit of his former suitors on Friday night, with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s Champions League chasers making the trip down to North London. The break came at a good time for Spurs who are winless in their last six, the training camp for the long anticipated resumption of English football will have given them a chance to reflect and regroup, allowing more scope to Mourinho to put his ideas across. Spurs will be delighted by the returns to fitness of key attacking players Harry Kane and Son Heung-Min in their quest to finish the season strongly, still seven points off fourth place and four behind their opponents.

A pivotal game

In the race for the top four, or potentially five reliant on the verdict of Manchester City’s case against UEFA, they do not come much bigger than this. Tottenham have the opportunity to reduce the deficit to just a point behind the Red Devils in victory, putting the pressure onto Wolverhampton Wanderers, Sheffield United and Chelsea, the former and latter of which join in the action after this encounter.

United have won the last two competitive head-to-heads since Solskjaer’s reign began, with Marcus Rashford scoring all three goals in 1-0 and 2-1 wins. The 22-year-old striker has been busy during the season suspension, raising money for charity and speaking out in aid of the Black Lives Matter campaign that the majority of Premier League clubs will be endorsing in the coming weeks. He has 14 goals and four assists this term and is becoming a real talismanic figure for the club.

Key battle

When fully fit, Son Heung-Min is enormously crucial for Tottenham, his pace and dribbling ability, typified by his goal at home to Burnley this season, is a great outlet, he is the driving creative force from wide areas. The South Korean looked to be a slightly risky investment when he joined from Bayer Leverkusen for £27million in the 2015 summer transfer window, but after taking sometime to find his space in the Spurs team he has gone from strength to strength. Scoring 83 goals and assisting 44 in 220 matches, and should be entering his peak, approaching his 28^th birthday next month. Normally playing on the left wing his battle with Aaron Wan-Bissaka will be huge in deciding this evenly matched contest.

Wan-Bissaka joined United from Crystal Palace in the summer for £50million, and in that putting a lot of expectation on his shoulders, with the club looking to invest in a player to nail down the right back position long term. The 22-year-old has been a revelation, his 1v1 defending saving the blushes of a newly put together backline on many occasions, leading to Solskjaer’s men holding the fourth best defensive record in the division. The Londoner’s creativity down the right flank has also paid dividends, contributing two assists.

Getting on United with a double chance looks a sensible play, they are a more settled team, however there will be shocks in the first game back, so keep it simple.

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