In a world of reality check, both English teams, Tottenham and Manchester United have had a fair share of struggles in the past few years including this 2024/2025 season.
Manchester United has gone from being the glory that was once celebrated in the city of Manchester in the Sir Alex Ferguson era to becoming a shadow of herself under at least five managers who tried to keep the patches together.
The struggles of Man United is not only limited to their backroom staff but there are on field issues as well. The goal keeping department has seen as many as 44 goals conceded in the English Premier League alone. While they have Conceded 18 goals averaging 1.29 in the build up to the Europa Final in Bilbao, Spain.
Tottenham on the other hand have looked nothing like a club that competes for trophies in the past few years. The narrative only changed when when they managed to get to the 2019 champions league final where they were defeated by Liverpool. Just after that they went back to default settings as attaining top four finish became a struggle as is being witnessed in the EPL this season.
I must say expectations are not so high on either side as this Trophy could go either way. However, Manchester United seem to have that edge over Tottenham. Having shown some good resilience in the competition. From taking the game to extra time, losing in extra time and doing a comeback in same extra time against an equally good side as Lyon says there’s still quality to put on display.
Until then you cannot discount Tottenham especially, when their manager, Ange is of the belief that he wins at least a trophy in his second season irrespective of the club situation.
