Tottenham Hotspur vs. Manchester United: game time, live blog, and how to watch online

Lads, its’ United. Tottenham Hotspur host Manchester United in the first home match of the 2023-24 Premier League season. Is there ever an ideal time to play United? Maybe not. You can argue that this is a good time since the teams are mostly fresh and untested, but there’s also maybe a greater chance that things go sideways because Tottenham haven’t locked in their offense under Ange Postecoglou.

Whatever. The games come when they come and there’s no use worrying about it. But this is a good opportunity for Spurs to pick up a result against the top six, something they had a difficult time doing last season. Cuti Romero is back after an early sub against Brentford. Will Big Ange roll with a similar lineup?

Some housekeeping: some of you may have noticed that we’ve left Twitter/X. That platform has been dying for months, and during that same period I’ve watched engagement and referral traffic to the blog drop precipitously. Carty Free has lost its blue check, and Elon’s API changes broke the site’s autotweeting functionality. It’s now more work to post there for dubious benefit, and I’ve had it. We will no longer post regularly there, if at all. I’m sorry to lose all the followers, but we’ll likely regroup elsewhere, either Bluesky or Threads. For now, we are no longer live-tweeting matches and instead will live-blog like we did for a while last season.

Lineups

Live Blog

How to Watch

Tottenham Hotspur vs. Manchester United
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, North London, UK
Saturday, August 19, 2023
Time: 12:30 p.m. USA, 5:30 p.m. UK
TV: NBC (USA), Sky Sports (UK). Check international listings at livesoccertv.com
Streaming: Peacock

Match thread rules

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