MASON CAN MUSCLE IN
THE BIG MATCH-UP IN NUMBERS
Manchester United are unbeaten in five Tottenham are averaging just 12.1 shots ● ●
Premier League games, winning three per game in the Premier League this and drawing two. The Red Devils have kept season, their lowest on record across a single four clean sheets in that run, as many as they campaign in the competition since 1997-98. had in their previous 35 league games. However, their shot conversion rate is 13.4 per cent, their highest on record in a single campaign, also since 1997-98.
No side has kept fewer clean sheets in ●
the league than Tottenham this season (four). The last time they had kept as few clean sheets after 29 Premier League games was in 2006-07
(also four), when they also conceded in their
30th game that term. trouble in the festive period and Spurs are trying to convince Jan Vertonghen to stay despite him being a free agent in 11 days time.
Giovani Lo Celso is unlikely to be fit to start tonight as Mourinho revealed that the midfielder’s rehabilitation from the thigh injury he sustained in March was held up when lockdown restrictions meant he could not get treatment.
Mourinho said: “I consider Gio to be one of the victims of the rules and protocols, because he was injured at the end of the period before the coronavirus situation.
“He could not get treatment because of the restrictions. Now he is training again.
“Harry Kane hasn’t played football for more than six months. So again, he is working extremely well.
“He’s going to start the game. Does Harry have 90, 80, 70, 60 minutes? I don’t know. Only the game will tell us that. Is he on the top of his form?We don’t know.
“It’s not a little training session with our friends from Norwich that’s going to tell us the answer.
“But he’s around six months without playing a football match but he works extremely well.
“He’s an amazing professional and he’s going to start tomorrow.” with the
As Tottenham manager, Jose Mourinho ●
has lost all three of his league games against sides he has formerly managed (one v Manchester United, two v Chelsea). In his previous 16 league games against his former clubs in Portugal and England, he lost only twice (W9 D5).
Since his Premier League debut, Bruno ●
Fernandes has been involved in more goals in the competition than any other United player (two goals, three assists), while he has created the most chances (11) and had the most shots (19) of any player at the club.
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FOLE GUNNAR SOLSKJAER hopes a beefed-up Mason Greenwood will be his secret weapon during the remainder of this campaign. The United manager says the striker, 18, has piled on muscle during lockdown.
And with United still battling in the Premier League, FA Cup and Europa League, Solskjaer said there will be opportunities for Greenwood, right, to shine. “Mason is a young boy but this lockdown period has done him all the good in the world,” he said. “Mason’s looking more and more like a man. In training now he can use his strength better and he has done really well over the three or four weeks we have been training now.”