Jermain Defoe, Tottenham Hotspur
Yet for most of the 75,000-odd fans making their way to Old Trafford tomorrow lunchtime the sense of anticipation will have been sweetened not so much by the consequences of the result as the likely quality of the entertainment involved in producing it. City against United was all about who won and lost; the game was largely a humdrum affair only partly redeemed by Paul Scholes’s melodramatic late winner. By contrast matches between United and Spurs have a tradition of producing open‑ended, fluctuating encounters in which attacking imagination and individual ingenuity has frequently upstaged grim defence and the desire to stop people playing.
Read the rest of this article that also provides some nice historical notes on these two teams. For information on lineups, here you go
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