Friday’s briefing: Man Utd and Tottenham focus of Premier League games

Manchester United and Tottenham continued to fine tune preparations for the Europa League final – but first both clubs will be back in Premier League action on Friday night.

Charlton beat Wycombe to reach the Sky Bet League One play-off final at Wembley.

Friday will also see focus turn towards the FA Cup final between Manchester City and Crystal Palace.

Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim says there is still time for players to secure their place in his Europa League final line-up as they look to head to Bilbao buoyed by a morale-boosting win at Chelsea.

This is comfortably United’s worst season of the Premier League era, with the 16th-placed side travelling to London looking for some much-needed positivity having lost 2-0 at home to West Ham last time out.

“The best way is to face the game like we should face the game – it is to win the game,” Amorim said of Friday night’s clash at Stamford Bridge.

“We need to perform, we need to win points in the Premier League and that is the feeling.

“We have time to recover (after Chelsea). The best thing to prepare for the final is to play the game and then the players have to understand that if you play or don’t play against Chelsea, it means nothing to the final. That is important.”

Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou has hinted at wholesale changes for the trip to Villa Park.

Spurs have been rocked by Dejan Kulusevski becoming the latest key player to suffer an injury ahead of Wednesday’s showpiece in Bilbao against Manchester United.

Kulusevski sustained a right knee injury in Sunday’s 2-0 home defeat to Crystal Palace to join Lucas Bergvall and James Maddison on the treatment table.

Postecoglou decided to rest Guglielmo Vicario, Cristian Romero, Micky van de Ven, Destiny Udogie,