{"id":454535,"date":"2026-02-07T13:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T13:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/454535\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T13:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T13:33:14","slug":"tottenham-confirmed-team-vs-man-united-van-de-ven-odobert-and-sarr-start-as-frank-makes-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/454535\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham confirmed team vs Man United &#8211; Van de Ven, Odobert and Sarr start as Frank makes changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the Tottenham Hotspur team that Thomas Frank has selected to face Manchester United in the Premier League on Saturday afternoon<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tottenham boss Thomas Frank will be hoping to have Micky van de Ven back fit to face Manchester City in the Premier League on Sunday\" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0_GettyImages-2258154533.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Tottenham boss Thomas Frank has Micky van de Ven back fit to face Manchester United in the Premier League on Saturday\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Tottenham boss Thomas Frank has Micky van de Ven back fit to face Manchester United in the Premier League on Saturday<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Tottenham boss Thomas Frank has made three changes to his team to face Manchester United on Saturday in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.football.london\/all-about\/thomas-frank\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Frank&#8217;s<\/a> side are currently unbeaten in four matches across all competitions after their 2-2 draw with title-chasers Manchester City last Sunday and now the north London outfit will tackle a United side at Old Trafford that has been turned around under caretaker boss and former <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.football.london\/tottenham-hotspur-fc\/\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Spurs<\/a> midfielder Michael Carrick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Frank has got a couple of players back fit and in his line-up in the shape of captain <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.football.london\/all-about\/cristian-romero\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Cristian Romero<\/a>, who had to leave the City game at half-time due to illness, and Micky van de Ven. Djed Spence was &#8220;touch and go&#8221; for the game according to the Dane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">With Van de Ven and Romero available to play at Old Trafford, the versatile Joao Palhinha gets the nod on the right of the back three in the 3-4-3 formation with Radu Dragusin back on the bench, despite the Romanian&#8217;s strong second half against Pep Guardiola&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The wing-backs are once again Destiny Udogie and Archie Gray are the only ones currently fit while <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.football.london\/all-about\/pape-matar-sarr\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Pape Matar Sarr<\/a> comes into the midfield ahead of <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.football.london\/all-about\/yves-bissouma\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Yves Bissouma<\/a> to partner up with Conor Gallagher after making a big difference in the second half against City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Wilson Odobert, who was ill like Romero for the City game, has been given the green light ahead of Randal Kolo Muani and Mathys Tel to play as the right-sided number 10 alongside Xavi Simons with the Dutchman and Dominic Solanke looking to carry straight on from their fine performances against City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Here&#8217;s the team Frank has gone with:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Vicario, Palhinha, Romero, Van de Ven; Gray, Gallagher, Sarr, Udogie; Odobert, Solanke, Xavi. Subs: Kinsky, Dragusin, Byfield, Bissouma, Olusesi, Souza, Tel, Kolo Muani, Williams-Barnett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s the Tottenham Hotspur team that Thomas Frank has selected to face Manchester United in the Premier League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[22936,155145,212377,102266,69560,99,17654],"class_list":{"0":"post-454535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cristian-romero","9":"tag-djed-spence","10":"tag-manchester-united-v-tottenham-hotspur","11":"tag-micky-van-de-ven","12":"tag-pape-matar-sarr","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-spurs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}