📅 October 10, 2026
Confirmed: Amad Starts v Spurs, Yoro at Right-Back, Rashford and Baleba on the Bench
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Amad starts for the first time this season. Leny Yoro is at right-back ahead of Diogo Dalot. Marcus Rashford and Carlos Baleba are on the bench, and Benjamin Sesko, Patrick Dorgu and Noussair Mazraoui aren’t in the squad. Two changes from the side that drew at Fulham three weeks ago, both of them in places the predictions didn’t touch.
Manchester United: Lammens; Yoro, Maguire, MartĂnez, Shaw; Mainoo, Tielemans; Amad, Fernandes (c), Cunha; Mbeumo.
Substitutes: Darlow, Dalot, Heaven, Santos, Baleba, Mount, Lacey, Rashford, Zirkzee.
Tottenham: Kinsky; Gray, Senesi, van Hecke, Udogie; Tonali, Bergvall, Gallagher; Kudus, Solanke (c), Savio.
Substitutes: DĂşbravka, Tosin, Maddison, Tel, Mateus Fernandes, Marmoush, Bentancur, Davies, van de Ven.
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Amad in, Rashford out of the eleven
Amad hadn’t played a minute for United this season before today. He went down with an ankle injury in pre-season, got back into group training at the start of the month, and on Friday Michael Carrick would only say that “Amad, Kobbie and Marcus have done a little bit of training.” Of those three, two start. Rashford, who left the England camp with a hip problem, is the one held back.
The Peoples Person reads the shape as Amad on the right, Cunha on the left, Fernandes at ten and Mbeumo through the middle. Those are the same four players who started in attack when United beat Spurs 2-0 here in February. Mbeumo has had a hand in seven goals in his last six league games against Tottenham, per the club’s own programme, so putting him closest to goal isn’t a coin flip.
Yoro at right-back
This is the change nobody predicted. Dalot had started the last four league games and every published XI kept him there. Mazraoui would have been the alternative, but Carrick said on Friday he “took a knock” with Morocco and is “not quite right,” and he isn’t in the squad. Yoro gets the shirt instead, with Dalot on the bench if it doesn’t take.
Maguire and MartĂnez continue in the middle, Shaw at left-back for a second straight league game. Ayden Heaven is the defensive cover.
Who’s missing
Sesko is the headline absence. Carrick’s words on Friday: “Ben is further away with the injury he has, so he won’t be ready.” He described it as “a similar area” to the shin problem from the spring rather than the same injury, and on a return date, “it’s still not quite clear.” Dorgu “looks like he’ll be out for a number of weeks” with the hamstring he hurt playing for Denmark. Matthijs de Ligt and Manuel Ugarte remain out, and Tom Heaton isn’t in the squad either.
Baleba waits again
Baleba is named among the substitutes for the second time, after an unused afternoon at Fulham. His only minutes in a United shirt came in the closed-doors friendly against Lausanne eight days ago. Carrick’s line on Friday was that he’s “certainly getting closer” but “has missed a lot,” and that “there’s a little bit of patience there for him to get up to speed.” Mainoo and Tielemans keep the pivot, which is what every prediction had.
De Zerbi makes six changes
Tottenham’s eleven is six different from the one that lost 2-3 to Aston Villa before the break. Pedro Porro is out with a hamstring injury, so Archie Gray plays right-back. Micky van de Ven, who hurt a hand on Netherlands duty, drops to the bench and Marcos Senesi partners Jan Paul van Hecke. Destiny Udogie replaces Andy Robertson, who isn’t in the squad. In midfield Lucas Bergvall and Conor Gallagher come in for Rodrigo Bentancur and Mateus Fernandes, and Mohammed Kudus starts in place of Omar Marmoush.
Van Hecke starts in the week his wife gave birth to twins; De Zerbi had said he’d weigh “the emotional aspect” before picking him. James Maddison is on the bench after what De Zerbi called a minor setback in training. Dejan Kulusevski travelled with the squad in a support role and isn’t involved. Dominic Solanke captains.
Spurs arrive bottom with two points from five games. United have five from five. We’ve covered why both managers are nervous; the team sheets suggest Carrick trusts his returning players more than De Zerbi trusts his.
Details
Old Trafford, 5:30pm UK, 12:30pm Eastern, on NBC and Telemundo in the USA. Stuart Attwell is the referee, Jarred Gillett on VAR. Full report here after the whistle.
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Sources: Both confirmed line-ups, both benches, both captains and the officials from the Premier League’s official match data (fixture 128981), taken at 10:30 AM Central on 10 October 2026, cross-checked against The Peoples Person for United, Inside Futbol for Tottenham and 101 Great Goals for both. The positional reading of United’s front four is The Peoples Person’s. United’s Fulham and Tottenham’s Aston Villa line-ups, for the change counts, from the same Premier League data. Carrick’s quotes from his pre-match press conference on 9 October 2026, via Sports Mole and The Peoples Person’s transcript. Amad not having featured this season, Rashford’s hip, Porro’s hamstring, van de Ven’s hand, the van Hecke, Maddison and Kulusevski lines and the De Zerbi quote from the Evening Standard via Yahoo Sports (United and Tottenham previews, 10 October 2026). Points totals from 101 Great Goals, pre-match. The February 2026 United line-up from Tottenham Hotspur’s confirmed line-ups page for that match. US broadcasters from ESPN’s match listing. Mbeumo’s record against Spurs from the matchday programme, linked above. Accurate as of kick-off.